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Australian artist paints with breasts
New IND press ^
| 1-6-06
| ind press staff
Posted on 01/06/2006 4:24:24 PM PST by Rakkasan1
SYDNEY: Changing colours of palette entails endless showers for an Australian artist - because she prefers to paint with her breasts.
But Di Peel, a mother of two, is producing what the market wants. Unlike recent winners of prestigious Turner Prize for modern art, Peel's works can do what paintings traditionally are supposed to do and brighten up a bare wall.
Her first canvas sold for $10, her second for $26 and currently she's busy with an order for 10 at a princely $89 each.
Peel, from Tasmania, freely admits that her chosen method doesn't allow much detail.
"They are more like abstract flowers," she told Hobart's Mercury newspaper. "But my latest piece, people say, looks like the Earth from space.
(Excerpt) Read more at newindpress.com ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: artist; australian; breasts; painter; paints
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I wonder how large a canvas she uses.
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:24:25 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
To: Rakkasan1; Lil'freeper
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:26:17 PM PST
by
big'ol_freeper
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." Pope JPII)
To: Rakkasan1
Is her studio open to the public?
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:26:50 PM PST
by
Freedom_no_exceptions
(No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
To: Rakkasan1
Ummmmmmmm..excuse me, you forgot the PICTURE
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:27:23 PM PST
by
jsh3180
To: Rakkasan1
"Di Peel"
Is her sister Nana?
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:28:08 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: Rakkasan1
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:28:13 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
To: jsh3180
Yes, and I think he was being kind.
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:28:18 PM PST
by
SuzyQue
To: jsh3180
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Thank goodness she doesn't user her butt. She would lose her shirt in costs!
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:28:44 PM PST
by
doodad
To: Rakkasan1
You don't even want to know what her husband uses to create the frames...
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:29:23 PM PST
by
NYCSteve
To: jsh3180
thanks for that. next come the Helen Thomas pics. oh the pain I have wrought on others!
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:30:26 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
To: jsh3180
AAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Ignore my post #3. Ignore my post #3.
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:30:55 PM PST
by
Freedom_no_exceptions
(No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
To: Rakkasan1
Art is meant to inspire. I'm inspired.
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:31:10 PM PST
by
keithtoo
(Global Warming causes everything, and everything causes Global Warming.)
To: jsh3180
She must paint billboards with those fat brushes.
To: Rakkasan1
Must be difficult to hold the brush.
To: TheMom; Dashing Dasher; Eaker
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:32:53 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: Rakkasan1
$89 each? She can do better.
$100 or Bust!
To: big'ol_freeper
looks more like a arse to me.....kinda like you seen on a fat hillbilly working under a sink....
To: jsh3180
Panoramic landscapes, I'm guessing
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:36:51 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: Squantos
I do this too but only on post-it notes.
I cannot do a bill-board!!
And, NO!!!
But thanks for asking!
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:37:48 PM PST
by
Eaker
(My Wife Rocks! - I will never take Dix or El Roy off of my ping list.)
To: windcliff
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