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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 29, 2013 at 6:45pm

Thank you for the link.

Thank you in anticipation of #2.

I watch.
I wait.

I'll send you something back later.

Regards, Val

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 29, 2013 at 5:23pm

Valentine,

I recently explained the process used for this with regard to a different piece, but the details are very similar. Check the discussion here: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/photo/to-pgoncales-8-18-13006-1?conte...

This print has found a home already, but I intend to make an edition of 5, and number 2 will be ready very soon. Watch your mail!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 29, 2013 at 4:58am

Hi Dan! On a more serious note -- I've returned to look at your flower again, and am most impressed with it.

How did you do it?  What techniques did you use?

If it is still without a home, I would be honourd to receive a copy of it.

Thanks...in advance and in anticipation.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 28, 2013 at 9:43pm

Thanks Dan, for all of this info. You certainly pick up some strange bits and peices of knowledge here in IUOMA. An American friend explained to me what 'Brown Sugar' meant in the Stones' song of the same name -- the it took on a different meaning; We live and learn, but I never promised you a rose garden anyway.

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"(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden"

"I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine there's gotta be a little rain sometime
When you take you gotta give so live and let live and let go oh oh oh oh
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden"

and so it goes on....oh oh oh oh

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 28, 2013 at 8:55pm

Val,

That is a fine old American folk song. The term "yellow" was commonly used in the 19th and early 20th century periods to describe a mulatto man or woman, usually someone legally "classified" as Black or "Negro," but who clearly had substantial  evidence of one or more white parents of ancestors. A "yellow girl" or "Yaller gal" was often a young servant or slave woman who was loved by (or at least used by) a white man, and 19th century songs about yellow girls often refer to impossible love situations. Some folks actually associate this particular song with a famous mulatto servant woman whose actions are thought to have helped Sam Houston win the Battle of San Jacinto which won Texas freedom from Mexico.

Comment by Amy Irwen on August 28, 2013 at 7:44pm

Gorgeous...

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 28, 2013 at 7:17pm

It's a very beautiful Yellow Rose: bravo!

I've heard of the 'Yellow Rose of Texas (see below) but not the Yellow Rose of Neverland. Is that where Michael Jackson and his chimpanzee hung out?

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"There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am gonna see
Nobody else could miss her not half as much as me
She cried so when I left her it was like it broke her heart
And if I ever find her we never more will part

She's the sweetest little rose bud that Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds they sparkle like the dew
You may talk about your Clementine and sing of Rosa Lee
But the yellow rose of Texas is the only girl for me"

Etc

etc