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Friday, April 29, 2011

C.J. Burke's .sig card #110: The Man Behind The Curtain



UPDATE:  I have a chosen an alternate version of the image with no watermark. I can't crop it without it being pixilated, so Toto is now in the picture...not sure if that's good or bad.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's the name of Hildebrandts piece that was used for this card?

SLP2000

Jackalwere said...

I believe it's called "Toto discovers Oz".

Anonymous said...

It's cool picture for this card, but what a pity it has watermark.

I thought that knowing the name I'd be able to find a copy without it, but no luck :(

Anyway, nice to see you back with new cards :)

SLP2000

Anonymous said...

Ok, so when I first read the name of the card, I had a picture of puppeteer in mind, or something similar.

Like this picture of Brom

http://www.bromart.com/gallery/ThingsThatBite/images/Broma1c.jpg

but with someone above, and the curtain between.


This should explain what I'm writing about.
http://pix.posterrevolution.com/pr/1/629399m.jpg

But if we may usa a metpahor, I'd say this picture is really nice for this card

http://www.realms-of-fantasy.org/artists/Brom/images/brom063.jpg

(except the spaceship).

Although I have nothing against the picture that you pick up already.

SLP2000

(x, why?) said...

One look at that and I knew that the painting was an Oz-inspired piece. "Toto discovers Oz"? I assume Toto got cropped out of the picture.

Art imitating art imitating art ... or something.

Jackalwere said...

@SLP2000: I like the Brom images, but they aren't right for this card. It's part of C.J.'s Wizard of Oz-inspired ideas, so Wizard of Oz artwork remains true to the idea.

@CJ: check out the alternate post...Toto is included!

Anonymous said...

Ok, I didn't read Wizard of Oz, hence I don't recognize card connection to the book.

Jackalwere said...

No problem. C.J. can confirm if there are any more...the previous card (Winged Monkeys) was one, and I believe Tin Elemental might be one also. Poppy Field (.sig card #17) is one as well.

(x, why?) said...

Saw him now. My eye just didn't go there. The "wizard" is just so much more prominent, as is the green curtain.