“Decortive falage”? Hmm…maybe an ESL person.
This technique was taught in art schools when I graduated (90s), but it’s basically lost commercial appeal due to technology. My scratchboard never got this good–sorry, nothing snarky here.
I started laughing at “depicks”. It just got funnier as the errors got worse.
It really is too bad, since the artwork is actually quite decent (in a tough medium, to boot). But the lack of effort toward professionalism in the description is sad.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17648483
Kind of a rad design- unfortunately they felt the need to speak.
“I have been making these since High School and can incorporate practically anything
into a snowflake like design”
Oh you went to High School…how fancy of you.
“You can chose a frame ….the chose is a metal frame
a wood frame in light ,median or dark wood. If you need more choses let me know.”
You can spell incorporate correctly but medium, choice, and choose…
This artist’s phalanges are more skillful depicting pholiage than phiddling with phonetics, phronds and phrames…. I think she may be a phoreigner. Phrom Pennsylphania, I note. Otherwise this may be subterphuge to attract the “Killer’s” eye.
The work shows the artist’s keen eye, fine motor control, and attention to detail, and the copy shows the artist’s ability to indiscriminately mash at a keyboard with an open palm.
Helen would you post the link to the “Faggiest Vampire” book that you put up on the Facebook group? Our non facebookey people need to see this wonderful literature.
Yeah, I agree with saucer ville. This actually reads as someone who might be English as Second Language, or learning disabled. I’m all for picking on crap, or stupidity, but while she should probably get a proofreader, her stuff is nice.
Am I the only weirdo who saw “decortive falage” and thought of “omelette du fromage”? Oh, Cartoon Network. How your programming has screwed with my mind…
This just goes to show that being good at one thing doesn’t mean you’ll be good at another thing. I consider my language and writing skills above average (I write professionally), but my graphical abilities are on par with a 7-year-old’s. Perhaps I should form a symbiotic relationship with this artist: they handle the art and I handle the writing.
January 16, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Wow. I mean, the work itself is decent. But someone give this person a spell checker!
January 16, 2010 at 2:36 pm
what were they actually trying to say…?
January 16, 2010 at 2:36 pm
thank god there’s lots of room for writing.
January 16, 2010 at 2:37 pm
I like the artwork, really good stuff.
But I’m trying to figure out what “falage” is…
January 16, 2010 at 2:38 pm
more like Decorative FAILAGE in the spelling and grammar department.
January 16, 2010 at 2:38 pm
“Decortive falage”? Hmm…maybe an ESL person.
This technique was taught in art schools when I graduated (90s), but it’s basically lost commercial appeal due to technology. My scratchboard never got this good–sorry, nothing snarky here.
January 16, 2010 at 2:38 pm
“Posted by Decortive Falage”- LMFAO
January 16, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Did the animals depicted in the cards write the description? Is this a “I can haz cheezburger” situation?
January 16, 2010 at 2:39 pm
@ #2 decorative foliage.
The artist still gets massive kudos for nice scratchboard work. That is seriously hard to do well.
January 16, 2010 at 2:39 pm
i think she meant to say, “decorative foliage”???
January 16, 2010 at 2:40 pm
#9-fens- yup
January 16, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Foliage?
scratchboard is a pain in the ass.
January 16, 2010 at 2:41 pm
“falage” = “foliage” I have mad spellinglessitis translation abilities
January 16, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Dear Artist: maybe charge some more for your work and use the proceeds to buy a dictionary. Or Spell checker.
They created a new word, though…falage: n. work that is very good accompanied by a shitty and/or misspelled description
“Those scratch board cards were major falage. I bet the artist worked so hard on them she didn’t have energy to spell check.”
January 16, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I started laughing at “depicks”. It just got funnier as the errors got worse.
It really is too bad, since the artwork is actually quite decent (in a tough medium, to boot). But the lack of effort toward professionalism in the description is sad.
January 16, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I hate when I have a boarder in my decortive falage – they’re so hard to evict.
January 16, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Don’t scratchboards actually come with the artwork printed on, and you just scratch in the right spot?
January 16, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Her profile isn’t much better http://www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=5363789
January 16, 2010 at 3:03 pm
#3 aorta: Lots of room for writing, and for scribbling out, and writing it again. I’m a glass-half-full sort of person.
January 16, 2010 at 3:05 pm
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January 16, 2010 at 3:11 pm
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17648483
Kind of a rad design- unfortunately they felt the need to speak.
“I have been making these since High School and can incorporate practically anything
into a snowflake like design”
Oh you went to High School…how fancy of you.
“You can chose a frame ….the chose is a metal frame
a wood frame in light ,median or dark wood. If you need more choses let me know.”
You can spell incorporate correctly but medium, choice, and choose…
January 16, 2010 at 3:11 pm
This artist’s phalanges are more skillful depicting pholiage than phiddling with phonetics, phronds and phrames…. I think she may be a phoreigner. Phrom Pennsylphania, I note. Otherwise this may be subterphuge to attract the “Killer’s” eye.
January 16, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Stinkbait- I think you’re thinking of Phalanges, which is an SAT word for finger.
January 16, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Also misspelling has always gotten people on regretsy. Hence the “spelling issues” tag
January 16, 2010 at 3:15 pm
No wait…
Phallus, that’s what I was thinking of.
January 16, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Give me a pretty good artist who can’t spell over a terrible artist with perfect grammar any day.
January 16, 2010 at 3:16 pm
That’s exactly what I meant, NinjaGato. “Skillful fingers” … I’m assuming she made her pieces with her fingers/phalanges and not her feet …
January 16, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Sorry Gato … I thot’ you were referring to my phalanges … not Stinkbait’s …. ( hunkering down a bit in shame …)
January 16, 2010 at 3:30 pm
The work shows the artist’s keen eye, fine motor control, and attention to detail, and the copy shows the artist’s ability to indiscriminately mash at a keyboard with an open palm.
January 16, 2010 at 3:31 pm
I was under the impression they spoke English in Hatboro, PA. Guess I was wrong. But they have adorable animal babies.
January 16, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Depicks are for de teeth.
January 16, 2010 at 3:42 pm
oh wait. they mean “foliage”.. I feel stupid. I spent about 7 minutes searching google for variations of “falage”.
January 16, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Huked on fonix werked fer mee!
January 16, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Helen would you post the link to the “Faggiest Vampire” book that you put up on the Facebook group? Our non facebookey people need to see this wonderful literature.
January 16, 2010 at 3:56 pm
I always enjoy a good “(silly words) is my drag name” gag but this time it actually made me laugh out loud.
January 16, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Haha I bought it. For real. This is some legit scratchboard work.
I just hope they spell my shipping address right.
January 16, 2010 at 4:01 pm
She also does paintings on “wood plagues”. Pieces of wood covered in pus and boils anyone? http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=19117346
January 16, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Nice work, but as a confessed “Spelling Nazi” my head is about to explode.
January 16, 2010 at 4:19 pm
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=10909344
*facepalm*
January 16, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Somehow I got the image of a cleavage (décolleté) being the object of fellatio!! (or is that a fallacio?)–never even assumed it was a speller error!
January 16, 2010 at 4:31 pm
“Decortive Falage is my drag name.”
I am picturing the Goddess number from Showgirls, only with strategically placed leaves and raffia.
January 16, 2010 at 4:32 pm
her art is pretty cool.
January 16, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Yur artwurk iz byutyfull, butt desifring yur deskripshun gaiv me a hedake. Nex tym uze spelchek, mmmkay?
January 16, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Gotta give mad props for the excellent scratchboard work. No other comment. Thumbs down me all you want. I’m overlooking the typos.
January 16, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Yeah, I agree with saucer ville. This actually reads as someone who might be English as Second Language, or learning disabled. I’m all for picking on crap, or stupidity, but while she should probably get a proofreader, her stuff is nice.
January 16, 2010 at 6:24 pm
#41 hammerhead77: See, I was picturing something more from “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”.
January 16, 2010 at 9:00 pm
I think the picture of the mother tiger licking snot from her cub’s nostrils was correctly introduced as “depicks”.
January 16, 2010 at 9:35 pm
#17: It depends. You can get blank ones in art supply stores.
January 16, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Am I the only weirdo who saw “decortive falage” and thought of “omelette du fromage”? Oh, Cartoon Network. How your programming has screwed with my mind…
January 16, 2010 at 10:32 pm
#49 Calophi – it made me think of Regina Phalange.
January 17, 2010 at 10:00 am
The primates in the picture were previously grooming each other, but the artist depicked them.
January 18, 2010 at 12:25 am
This just goes to show that being good at one thing doesn’t mean you’ll be good at another thing. I consider my language and writing skills above average (I write professionally), but my graphical abilities are on par with a 7-year-old’s. Perhaps I should form a symbiotic relationship with this artist: they handle the art and I handle the writing.