Monday, January 26, 2009

MMM - My Country

Click on picture to enlarge to read the pink text. Ooops. Left the "a" out of European. Too late to go back to square one and change it.
Today is Australia Day which is a bit like an Ozzie fourth of July. Oh, it is great fun. Hundreds of thousands of people wait in the hot sun all day to see half an hour of fireworks over the city at 8.30pm. The excitement is something to see - drunken brawls, riot police, drunken yobboes lining the gutters and tired and cranky spectators, not to mention tons of garbarge dumped along our pristine river banks and traffic jams to rival the world's worst.
Cynical? Moi?
My picture is an overpainting of a Googled photo. In case someone has never heard of Dame Edna I have a secret to tell. She is actually a ......... man, a very tall man who entertains around the world.

16 comments:

  1. oh what a fun piece...wonderful work and Happy Australia Day!!!

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  2. Great job of overpainting, Marie. I think I have to write to Dame Edna and tell him about your secret obsession with him!

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  3. beautiful! I love the color!

    Happy Australian day!

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  4. Fabulous...love your presentation for this theme! Such fun!

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  5. Marie, this is priceless, the picture AND your blurb underneath, it made me laugh out loud ..... glad there was no one else in the house to hear me and think I've gone mad!

    Oh I want this one!

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  6. Wonderful Marie..Hope you had a great Australia Day!!

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  7. Happy Australia Day and what a lovely job you did!

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  8. Wow this is fun, wonderful image and great work.

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  9. Your portrait of Dame Edna is fabulous, and I think "she" is the perfect figurehead for your country. I can only aspire to the kind of style and grace she embodies.

    Love,
    Alberta

    P.S. Loooove the rhinestone specs!

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  10. This is just too funny. I love it.

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  11. Such a great, hilarious piece, Marie. Only you could get this all together so well.

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  12. This is just delightful! It's so fun.

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  13. Oh this totally cracks me up. TOO FUNNY.It sounds like some party!!

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