@Girl Of The Sea Asked after my frog paintings. Here is one of them! It's a local species known either as the banjo frog because of the sound it makes, or the pobblebonk. Many of them live in the nearby creeks and ponds of Hurstbridge. One of them was even carried into the house by one of my cats (it had gotten into their catio). I then safely put it back outside!
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in reply to Muse • • •@Karl Auerbach I used to know about the jewel, but I would have to look it all up. Here we have cane toads that are poisonous, but you can supposedly also get high by licking them!
Do you know?
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in reply to Muse • • •I like the stamp - to my eye it is an ancient Egyptian cartouche in an arts and crafts style.
Licking toads? That's one of those things that makes me wonder "how did that ever get started, was there a lollypop shaped toad that just looked like it needed to be licked?"
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in reply to Muse • • •"I like the stamp - to my eye it is an ancient Egyptian cartouche in an arts and crafts style."
BINGO! With just a touch of Asian influence.
It's much easier than trying to sign my name without wrecking my painting. Also, these days it's probably the best defense I can figure out against AI scrapers. Watermarks and image poisoning can be routed around. But by making my signature integral then anyone saying to an AI, do a frog in the style of KJP, they're going to get that cartouche. Or a mangled version of it.