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Title: Chalk Drawings
Post by: gerspee on March 18, 2017, 03:14:09 AM: Nice and old drawings but can't find the artist ? So some help needed . thanks
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: mart on March 18, 2017, 07:01:52 PM: Nice pastel work !! Are both signed ?? If so post the signature on the other one too !! Sometimes letters look different on 2 different pieces of artwork !!
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: KC on March 18, 2017, 09:17:42 PM: Great advice Mart! Point to you to make you 100!!!!
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: mart on March 19, 2017, 07:25:21 AM: Oh My !! Thanks KC !! As long as its not my age !! Although sometimes,,,,thats the way the old bod feels !!
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: ghopper1924 on March 19, 2017, 02:24:37 PM: Quote from: mart on March 18, 2017, 07:01:52 PM
Nice pastel work !! Are both signed ?? If so post the signature on the other one too !! Sometimes letters look different on 2 different pieces of artwork !!

Ha ha. In light of recent events, that's a poignant statement. ;)
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: mart on March 19, 2017, 02:48:39 PM: Ahh Ha !! But on the other we only had one to look at !! ;D
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: Ipcress on March 19, 2017, 03:43:25 PM: You'll often see these described as graphite / charcoal and body colour or " heightened white "

Not sure on the sig, yet. Possibly cyrillic.

They're alright, a bit dated.
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: mart on March 19, 2017, 07:21:17 PM: You are right Ipcress !! I forget that artists use this method !! Rare to find one now that does !!
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: gerspee on March 20, 2017, 02:07:17 AM: Make the picture later today ( somebody put them away gain in the house :P) . But here's some closer detailed pictures off the drawings I had on the computer . Maybe there helpful in the story told by them ?
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: gerspee on March 20, 2017, 04:26:05 AM: Here's the other drawings autograph ;D
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Post by: greenacres on March 21, 2017, 05:23:51 AM: Post traumatic stress! 😬
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: gerspee on March 21, 2017, 06:52:42 AM: That means you like the drawings but don't know what to say ? :P
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: KC on March 23, 2017, 10:04:00 PM: I really like them.

Could be settlers. It could be cyrillic...still looking...
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: gerspee on March 24, 2017, 02:07:29 AM: Maybe a story drawing ? Like the chapel and the horse with a body on it crossing the water ?
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Post by: KC on March 24, 2017, 01:51:41 PM: Definitely telling the plight/journey/struggle. Nicely done!

The signature looks like it could be:
L Crofias
L Crofas
L Cropas
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: mart on March 24, 2017, 02:02:38 PM: I keep getting a biblical feeling from them !! Although not typical as we see in the bible,,perhaps someones own vision !!
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: KC on March 24, 2017, 10:22:11 PM: Mart, I did too when at first, because of the mother/child. However, the snow, horses, and a man's body being carried on horseback...not so much. Note the cross on the top of the "hut" with the mother/baby riding in the background and then mom holding baby with what appears to be three wise men? Sort of like the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end of earthly life and then eternity.
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: gerspee on March 27, 2017, 07:04:31 AM: So not much to find on the name's given top me yet . So nice but difficult drawings :o
Title: Re: Chalk Drawings
Post by: mart on March 28, 2017, 08:28:31 AM: I didn`t find anything under different spellings of that name !! Take it to an art gallery and see if they recognize it !!