Valentine Mark Herman's Blog Posts Tagged 'a' (2)

SILLY STAMPS -- an appeal

This is an appeal for 'SILLY STAMPS'.

What, you might well ask, is a 'Silly Stamp'?

A 'Silly Stamp' is an officially issued postage stamp that, when you look at it, makes you think, "This is silly!''

And then, ''What on earth is going on here? What could its designers have possibly been thinking when they came up with this image?"

"And, given that postage stamps (like coins, banknotes, flags, etc) are important vehicles for promotong national…

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Added by Valentine Mark Herman on March 2, 2017 at 9:22am — No Comments

NAKED WOMEN & POTTERY! One of Val's Rambling Art Stories.

Bonjour!

Look at this Massai Warrior piece of pottery I made, and then I will tell you my story:

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

In my penultimate year at Grammar (High) School, when I was 16, I took an optional (A level) course in Art.

There were 4 reasons why I did so:

i) I was hopeless at Art ( 'You still are, Val'.…

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Added by Valentine Mark Herman on July 4, 2013 at 6:30pm — 8 Comments

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