Archive for August 2010
The War Spell by Ed Org
This amazingly beautiful pencil sketch has just been published as a fine art limited edition print limited to only 850 copies signed and numbered by the artist Ed Org. Like all his pencil sketch work it is finely detailed and tremendously evocative. No wonder his fame is growing by leaps and bounds. There are very few artists in the genre to compete with him in terms of composition or technique. There are prints available now to suit practically any pocket or wall space from the small moon faerie sketches and countryside themes to these medium sized prints right up to the enormous ‘Wife of Lleu’ that despite its size and price is still one of his most popular works. If there is a list of current artists in the fantasy genre whose work is most likely to be viewed very favourably in the future and become extremely collectible then no doubt Ed Org must be well-placed on that list. You’ll find more examples of his excellent artwork here.
We know what it is like. You go to a new website and you have to type in all those personal details and then your address, blah, blah, blah and get the package, wrap the present, label it, blah, blah, blah and there aren’t enough hourrs in the day as it is. Well, we’ve already sorted the last part ages back since at Artists UK you can order anything, even a framed picture, and have it gift-wrapped with your choice of gift-wrap, add a free personalised gift label and have it sent directly to the recipient. But that still left having to type in both those addresses so now we’ve teamed up with Postcode Anywhere, an Internet services company who do what it says on the tin. They take your postcode and give you a menu to choose your address from so you’ve filled out both addresses in a fraction of the time it takes to type it all in … not bad, eh? If you think we’ve missed out any way of making it easier for you then let us know. We do our best to get you the most unusual and interesting products you can’t find anywhere else and our packaging is second to none as our customer comments show over and over again. But if you have a clever idea of what we could do to improve then please let us know. If it’s a really clever idea you might get us sending you a freebie!
Well there it is, Lancashire is ruled over by sadistic weather gods! How else do you explain it? All over Europe there’s been a burning hot summer with people complaining about the heat but in Lancashire you’re lucky if you get round to taking the winter duvet off the bed. It isn’t as if there has been no sunshine at all. No, it is worse than that. The sun will come out for the last hour before sunset after a gloomy overcast day. Alternatively, there’ll be a bright sunrise and then it’ll cloud over and tip it down for the remainder of the day. All sunny intervals are suspect and even the idea of a really hot sunny day is the kind of legendary myth worthy of Tolkien or Salvatore. What did the people of Lancashire do to deserve such vengeance from the sadistic weather gods? Any ideas?
