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Artist:Martin Plant ©2010 Text©2010

He was born with the name Julius Henry Marx but we know him better as "Groucho" Marx. He was a consummate comedian who kept us laughing in such madcap movies as Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera,among many other humorous classics In his later years, the laughs continued with his quiz show You Bet Your Life.

It was Groucho's quick wit, his funny chicken walk, thick eyebrows, bushy mustache, and his ever present cigar that made you laugh even when he wasn't saying anything. An example of his wit was seen in his quiz show You Bet Your Life where Groucho asked a contestant how many children she had. The lady said she had over a dozen. The answer amazed Groucho, and he asked her why she had so many children. She replied "I love my husband." Groucho replied "I love my cigar, but I take it out once in a while."

Another humorous incident occurred at an airport as he was going through customs. He was filling out a form and marked his less familiar name Julius Henry Marx. When the question of occupation came up, Groucho wrote "smuggler". Naturally this created quite a storm with the custom agents, but everything calmed down when the agents realized that in their midst was the great "Groucho" Marx.

Groucho's face is famous and well-known even today.You can find a caricature of his face if you walk into any joke shop, looking for a Halloween mask. There you will find rows of humorous looking Groucho Marx masks--with the trademark bushy eyebrows, thick mustache and black horn rimmed glasses staring back at you. Just a look at Groucho's face is enough to set you laughing.

If you need a good belly laugh, see any of his movies to set you chortling.

Enclosed is my version of the famous Groucho face, done in ink.

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Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, Cartoonist
Magazine illustrations and book cover art
portraits,surreals,still lifes.
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Groucho Marx,comedian. Artist: Martin Plant ©2010 text©2010

Labels: about art, art drawing--clown--juggling, comedian, Groucho Marx, ink drawing, portrait

Art Painting--Sydney Opera House. Artist: Martin Plant©2009
my catalog number 4384.

I recently saw a picture of the Sydney Opera House and I wanted to show it in a different version from the one usually seen. I wanted to give the impression of "Music" and "Sound" and to do this I decided to use vibrant colors and high contrast instead of the mauve color of the opera house as we know it.

I began the drawing in the "eye-balling" technique. Artists know what I mean by this. It's a slow, laborious artist's method to draw something when you don't want to use rulers or other mechanical devices. And I don't. After about an hour of this I stopped for a break.When I returned, I made more "eye-balling" corrections until the drawing looked right.(And people think becoming an artist is just "ten easy lessons" Ha!) Then I added a sailboat to show that the Sydney Opera House was set on an island. After that came lots of decisions on which color combinations to use.

So here it is, The Sydney Opera House. Maestro, music please.

Want to use this picture in your publication? Please contact me at my email address below for price information.


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Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, Cartoonist
Magazine illustrations and book cover art
portraits,surreals,still lifes.
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http://bcoreyman.googlepages.com
my art blogsite http://artofmartinplant.blogspot.com

Labels: art painting, Australia, Opera, Opera House, Sydney

William Shakespeare ©Martin Plant2009

Labels: art painting, playwright, portrait, william shakespeare

calendar publisher wanted



I am a freelance illustrator looking for a publisher who does calendars. You can see a complete 12 picture set for a calendar which I did. See the pictures at the website below:

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If you want to publish this, please contact me for details.



Artist: Martin Plant



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Need a freelance artist for your publication, magazine, book, circular, posters, greeting cards, etc? You can contact me below and also see other samples of my work from my website.-- Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, CartoonistMagazine illustrations and book cover artportraits,surreals,still lifes.
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Coke bottle with lillies.
This picture is one of a series of calendar art picures I am working on.
You can see other calendar art pictures by visiting my website and clicking on artviews.



Artist: Martin Plant .My catalog number 4038.


Need a freelance artist for your publication, magazine, book, circular, posters, greeting cards, etc? You can contact me below and also see other samples of my work from my website.-- Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, Cartoonist.
Magazine illustrations and book cover art,
portraits,surreals,still lifes.

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Labels: calendar art, calendar manufacturers, calendars, coca cola, coke, lillies, still life

The most successful artist of our time ?

Here's a Wiki about the artist Thomas Kincaid. If you're an artist, give a thought to selling your work. If you don't sell your work then it just might wind up in the garbage--after you're gone.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kincaid

Need a freelance artist for your publication, magazine, book, circular, posters, greeting cards, etc? You can contact me below and also see other samples of my work from my website.-- Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, CartoonistMagazine illustrations and book cover artportraits,surreals,still lifes. bcoreyman at gmail dot com

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Labels: art business, art licensing, art prints, artist, marketing art, selling art

I remembered Hillary Clinton's remark when she was campaining for President. --Who ya gonna call when there's an emergency, eh , dood? It gave me the idea for this cartoon.






Caption: When there's an emergency at three in the morning, who ya gonna call?

"Obama's Pizza."


Artist: Martin Plant(c)2008 my catalog number 4217.


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Labels: art cartoon, barak obama, hillary clinton, pizza

Love is grand. Till death do us part. There's no accounting for taste. What does she see in this guy? What does he see in her? A knight in shining armor! These thoughts and more went through my mind and I came up with this cartoon.

Labels: art cartoon, art director, editor, Frankenstein, George W. Bush, publisher

Ah, the stock market. It never fails. You put money into it and the value of your portfolio goes down, when of course you thought it would go up. You even thought you would make a killing till you soon realized that the thing being killed was you. Remember the saying, "buy low sell high"? Ah, you poor guy. Yes, we know. With you it always seem to be "buy high and sell low." Welcome to the stock market,pal, and plenty of it.

Art cartoon. Artist: Martin Plant. My catalog number 4077

caption: "If you want to bring real madness to the world, how about creating the stock market?"


Need a freelance artist for your publication, magazine, book, circular, posters, greeting cards, etc? You can contact me below and also see other samples of my work from my website.
Martin Plant: Illustrator , Fine Artist, Cartoonist
Magazine illustrations and book cover art
portraits,surreals,still lifes.
bcoreyman at gmail dot com
my art website bcoreyman.googlepages.com
my art blogsite artofmartinplant.blogspot.com

Labels: art cartoon, art director, devil, editor, publisher, stock market

Making Matzah

I was watching a documentary the other day on the making of matzah.

Orthodox Jews make it and they call it Shmurah matzah.The process is done by hand. The

ingredients are flour and water only. It is eaten for eight days during Passover and during this

time, eating bread is forbidden as well as other leavened products. Not an easy time. Matzah is

hard on the stomach and it often causes constipation. Think of it as eating rock-hard pizza and

you will know what it's like to eat matzah.There is often relief when this holiday is finally over

eight long days later.

Tip: to make matzah more digestible, the secret is to chew it and chew it till

it all becomes a soft mush. Then swallow. At the same time, all this chewing helps bring out the

flavor in the matzah. Happy Passover.

Making Matzah. Artist: Martin Plant (c)2008. My catalog

# 4090.

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Labels: art painting, baking, bread, Making Matzah, Passover