Drawing battle scenes...

[saved4salvation07]

I do a superb job of drawing pictures of American Civil War and World War I Battle scenes on paper with pencil and crayons.
I've drawn pictures such as:

1. British WWI Mark I and Mark IV Tanks,
2. the Battle of Gettysburg 20th Maine Bayonet charge of Little Round Top on July 2nd, 1863,
3. the July 1st, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg Railroad Cut engagement,
4. Pickett's Charge of July 3rd, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg,
5. the Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium - April 22nd-May 25th, 1915
6. the Battle of the Bloody Angle - Spotsylvania C.H. - May 12th, 1864,
7. Gordon's Flank attack of the Battle of the Wilderness - May 6th, 1864,
8. Grant's deadly assault on June 3rd, 1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia,
9. the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864

 

[faroukfarouk]

I do a superb job of drawing pictures of American Civil War and World War I Battle scenes on paper with pencil and crayons.
I've drawn pictures such as:

1. British WWI Mark I and Mark IV Tanks,
2. the Battle of Gettysburg 20th Maine Bayonet charge of Little Round Top on July 2nd, 1863,
3. the July 1st, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg Railroad Cut engagement,
4. Pickett's Charge of July 3rd, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg,
5. the Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium - April 22nd-May 25th, 1915
6. the Battle of the Bloody Angle - Spotsylvania C.H. - May 12th, 1864,
7. Gordon's Flank attack of the Battle of the Wilderness - May 6th, 1864,
8. Grant's deadly assault on June 3rd, 1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia,
9. the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864

Did you ever go to Ypres? it's sobering to look at the landscape and then imagine what the devastation must have looked like.

So do you do portraits as well as military landscapes?

 

[saved4salvation07]

Did you ever go to Ypres? it's sobering to look at the landscape and then imagine what the devastation must have looked like.

So do you do portraits as well as military landscapes?

Actually, I would love to visit Ypres, someday. I wish I could do more with paints and acrylics instead of with crayons, colored pencils and markers.
I would like to see the exhibitions in the IFFM. I vaguely do portraits, just landscapes

 

[faroukfarouk]

Actually, I would love to visit Ypres, someday. I wish I could do more with paints and acrylics instead of with crayons, colored pencils and markers.
I would like to see the exhibitions in the IFFM. I vaguely do portraits, just landscapes

Since I was in Ypres, they opened a Flanders Fields museum in the Cloth Hall in Downtown Ypres, all about World War One. The name of the museum comes from a poem written by a Canadian who subsequently died before the end of WW1.

There's also the Menen Gate where there are regular military memorial ceremonies.

 

[saved4salvation07]

Since I was in Ypres, they opened a Flanders Fields museum in the Cloth Hall in Downtown Ypres, all about World War One. The name of the museum comes from a poem written by a Canadian who subsequently died before the end of WW1.

There's also the Menen Gate where there are regular military memorial ceremonies.

I learned about the Poem, In Flanders Fields while I was in residential treatment in 2006-07. It was written at Essex Farm Cemetery by John McCrae, like you said, a canadian, who mourned the loss of his friend, Alexis Helmer. Since 2014-18 is the centennial of the war, I'm pretending I'm in battle. I've pretended 2nd Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele.

 

[faroukfarouk]

I learned about the Poem, In Flanders Fields while I was in residential treatment in 2006-07. It was written at Essex Farm Cemetery by John McCrae, like you said, a canadian, who mourned the loss of his friend, Alexis Helmer. Since 2014-18 is the centennial of the war, I'm pretending I'm in battle. I've pretended 2nd Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele.

There's also the McCrae museum and birthplace in Guelph, Ontario. Interestingly, someone has written an analysis of McCrae's poem, a close reading of which suggests that he did not even favour a negotiated peace to end WW1. In different terms, just screwing the Germans into the ground. It was hardline attitudes like his that were shared by many on the Allied side and led to a lot of problems after WW1. But it's a well written poem and the Flanders Field museum in Ypres gets a lot of visitors. If you ever go to Ypres you might also meet other artists, e.g., The South Central Shop . Tyne Cot is a huge cemetery near Ypres with a large dome, which a lot of ppl visit also. BTW, the locals spell it 'Ieper', while internationally it tends to be referred to as 'Ypres', the French spelling.