The 'Resistance' Theme is Now Up!

Hi All!

Just quickly nudging into Dave's Sunday to notify everyone that the entries for our last theme: 'Resistance' are now up on display in the Bonus Theme blog.

My entry for the round lifts shamelessly from the theme poster, which is Banksy's 'Rage, The Flower Thrower'. The original can be found in Beit Sahour near the wall separating Israeli and Palestinian communities on the contested West Bank. It depicts a rioter in sharp black and white, throwing not a Molotov cocktail, but rather a bouquet of flowers, which are depicted in colour. 

It is one of Banksy's most iconic pieces and can be found on t-shirts, posters and geegaws everywhere (in fact, Sarah has it on her favourite coffee mug). I found a 3d design of the image on Cults and printed a 40mm copy to work on.

To echo Banksy's stark contrast of the b&w figure to the flower, I dusted off my greyscale recipe that I used for my WWI project and did the figure along the same lines. 

It was fun getting reacquainted with painting in greyscale though it's been a good while since I've tried it. Thank goodness I had the sense to keep a paint journal, otherwise I'd be completely hooped trying to remember the shades I originally used.

Banksy's work is a powerful image of protest and non-violent resistance, and I thought it particularly apropos considering recent events, especially in light of the people of Minneapolis being nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for their nonviolent resistance to the ICE activities in their city. 

I'm sure the President was absolutely thrilled to hear of this news as well. :)

Enjoy the entries and remember to vote for your favourites!

- Curt

Sunday crew checking in

 It’s time to display the continued hard work from the Sunday crew .

I am up early this morning waiting on  the strains of “Grandad! Grandad ! “ as we have my best bud over for the weekend . So it’s a gentle early coffee while I process this weeks entries, before I am hit with the whirlwind . 

 

Yesterday my bud and I went to the ruins of the 900 year old Augustine Priory near us looking for and talking about history.  The remains  of the east window are still impressive nearly 500 years after Henry VIII and his  dissolution.

 Gisborough Priory from 1119 . It became  one of the richest monastic foundations in England. It had grants from the crown and bequests from the de Brus of Scotland - yes those Bruce’s . 

 The remains of the East window stands high over the town and can be seen from all around it . It’s rumoured the “Black Monk” can be seen crossing the site at certain times of the year , though that may be when alcohol has been taken .

Stone from the ruins lies all around - we had some in the garden 30 years ago.

We then got to revel in France having its derrière handed to it by Scotland in the 6 nations rugby . My voice may be a bit hoarse this morning after a 50-40 point game 😆

Scotland 50 , France 40 😎

 

Anyway that’s enough of my rambling - well apart from I have more Bolsheviks up my sleeves with luck this week .

To entertain you this weekend we have :- 

Matt has Wolves from Space

Mike has a bag of mixes

Adam is Horsey

Paul has something not brown , but grey 

Lee has his winter finished 

Ray had come over all Donnybrook - 

Phil has Paras 

And I am sure there will be more along in due course !