Ashes to ashes 

This picture is from Titian's "Spot the Ball" series and was probably painted between 1518 and 1525. Bacchus has leapt into the air to score a magnificent header and edge the ball past the flaying keeper, Aridane, whose outstretched arm can do nothing to prevent Bacchus lifting the cup yet again. 

Here he is at last. The eyes are red because of the flash. 

Couldn't resist this little gem 

Tree frogs II

Tree frogs will have to wait yet another day but it will certainly be worth it.

The US National Gallery of Art says "The haunting intensity of El Gecko's reco's paintings -- resulting from their unnaturally long gecko-like figures and strong contrasts of color and light -- has invited a kind of mythmaking about his life and art
 

Self-portrait (1599) entitled "Hey, wach it liddel fella" 

El Prado

Found out that Bosch's "Seven Deadly Sins" is in El Prado. Bosch died 25 years before the birth of the next artist, whose work also appears in El Prado.

Tree frogs

There remains recious little time today to mention tree frogs. Pity. It'll have to wait for another moment.

PC World

This was painted shortly before he established the highly successful PC World chain of law enforcement accessory shops.

And another famous self-portrait by Constable entitled "What am I going to do next?" 

And here is a self-portrait by Constable, doing the old slide the arms out of your shirt sleeves to make it look as if you haven't got any trick. 

Well, what do you think? 

Stumbled across a cracker painted by a forebear of the inventor of handy DIY equipment. Now, I thought it had a canny ressemblance to the next one.  

"Ooooh, the weather was gorgeous!" 

And here's another of Newton, getting a bit of geometry in. But did he do it in the nude. "Ooh, I always work in the nuddies, dear. I find those stockings so restricting, don't you?"  

This is a bum and feet view of the Creator, contemplating his works and wondering whether he'd got it right. 

Today's animal: Mustela nivalis or "least weasel" I'd say it's the most weasel-like if you had to choose from an elephant, giraffe, hermit crab and a weasel. This is one I found that looked as if it may not be stuffed.  

William Blake's manual of work procdures: "Always replace the bin cover after use"
 

I forgot to send the picture of Mrs Pérez  

Blake and extrusion units

Enough of Blake and back to extrusion units. Wonder if he knew anything about extrusion units. Google thinks to seem not - or maybe it's me who doesn't know how to look properly.

"We 'ave. Three hours' overtime and Dumpley said there were still four lesters to finish"

"You look as if you've had a hard day" 

What the devil do you think you're doing? 

bit fuzzy. Can't see a damn thing down here. 

This is me today. It may look as if I've devolved a little since the other day. Perhaps I do not have the same majesty as Tuesday but this new guise has its uses. Anonimity. 

this is a picture of me