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Sharpie art! - 6/5/2009 11:46:07 AM   
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This is a really cool story about using markers and Sharpies to decorate at home! Click on the link below to view the video of the room.

"Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie"

By Cheryl Truman
Tuesday, Sep. 23, 2008


"When Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream. Ten dollars of Magic Marker and Sharpie later, the place was black and cream and drawn all over.


There are fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, Winston Churchill lounging with George Bernard Shaw — and the TV squirrel Rocky and his less adroit moose pal Bullwinkle.


Says Kratzer of his cartoon of a cartoon: "You appreciate the cleverness more as an adult."


There's Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. There is Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, and the Cornell Law School, of which Kratzer is an alumnus. There is Kratzer's dad. There is the harlequin pattern — alluded to in culinary culture today by the Panera bread bag — and a fake fireplace facing a real one.


There are both The Walrus and the Carpenter (from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There), and William Shakespeare. The Marx Brothers peer around a corner. A flip-top garbage can is transformed via marker art into Star Wars' plucky little beeper R2D2."


http://www.kentucky.com/147/story/532854.html?story_link=email_msg

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RE: Sharpie art! - 6/5/2009 11:50:45 AM   
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WOW!!!! That is really neat. Thanks for posting it

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RE: Sharpie art! - 6/5/2009 12:16:21 PM   
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Did Anyone of the other Star Wars GEEKS notice the R2-D2 In the corner by the window of the link.

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RE: Sharpie art! - 6/5/2009 12:32:20 PM   
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Absolutely brilliant. Just being able to draw in the architectural elements would be enough for me.

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RE: Sharpie art! - 6/5/2009 3:37:25 PM   
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You are welcome, holly. I remember reading that Frank Zappa's family let their youngsters paint and draw and decorate, not sure if that was in one room or all over the house though.

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RE: Sharpie art! - 6/5/2009 4:11:26 PM   
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A drunk person would be really, really confused down there.


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RE: Sharpie art! - 6/5/2009 5:02:05 PM   
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it cost ten dollars worth of sharpies but thousands of dollars to get to where that artist is now. Nice work. Perfect touch.

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RE: Sharpie art! - 6/5/2009 7:18:15 PM   
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$10 worth of sharpies......$5-$10 thousand worth of furnishings of course it will look good.

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RE: Sharpie art! - 6/5/2009 8:24:20 PM   
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And to think of all those times I yelled at my kids when they wrote on the walls.......

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RE: Sharpie art! - 6/6/2009 3:53:18 AM   
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that is so cool, I wish I had a talent like that but my attempt would look like a rampaging three year olds.

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