Happy Holidays!

 Christmas cookies for you!

.:. © 2025 Ludwig Keck

Happy Holidays!

 All the best wishes for the holiday season!

.:. © 2025 Ludwig Keck

Happy Holidays!

 

.:. © 2025 Ludwig Keck

Can it be?

 Is it really?

Years ago, actually decades, I always looked for sparkplugs on the street. They were quite frequent in those spaces at intersections near the curb. Always intriqued me as I could not figure out how they got there.

Then they disappered, maybe cars got better.

Then this past Saturday as I was stopped at a red light a saw something gleaming on the steet. Could it be a sparkplug?

Well, it wasn't. Turns out it was a fuel cap - some cars still have those.

.:. © 2025 Ludwig Keck

Sacrilege

 When old newspapers sit around the pages generally turn yellow.

Old artworks too suffer the ravages of time. They become dark and dingy. Sometimes they turn off-color. That happens even to the best of them.

Van Gogh is one of my favorite old greats. So when I saw an image of one of his paintings, that of a restaurant, looking quite shabby, I almost despaired.

I decided to see if I could do some restoration. Mind you, just on a digital image, I have no access to the real thing. 

I spent two or three minutes on the chore and this is what I got:

Now I can hear the shouts of "uncouth sacrilige!" "How dare you touch a masterpiece!"

Well I just wanted to admire the painting and see it the way old Vincent mght have seen it.

In todays world the real painting looks like this:

Surely that can't be what Vincent painted. A lifeless, amost monochrome scene. No, I think my version is closer to the real Van Gogh.

What do you think, dear reader?

.:. © 2025 Ludwig Keck

Where's my lunch?

 It seem that word has gotten around about the "Bird Cafe" hidden in our bushes. 

Among a variety of birds, a couple of brown trashers, Georgia's state bird, keep hanging around and emptying our feeder. 

.:. © 2025 Ludwig Keck

Wild manipulation

 It isn't often that I talk about my "cafe art". I show my creations over at Silver Canvas (Silver Canvas – a gallery of playful photo art) and Ludwig Gallery (Home - Ludwig.Gallery) among other places. 

Here is the starting photo for my latest item:

Sometimes it takes me a while before I am happy with an item. This one even I liked:

Yes, that got "created" from the cloud photo via a long digital manipulation session. When I do like one well enough I add it to my online "gallery store", first at Ludwig Keck - Official Website and then it also becomes available in my "private membership store" usually at a 20% discount. 

Occassionally I check to see if everything is working. Earlier today it wasn't. I struggled and could not get into my own store. Finally managed to get it working again. Checked once more. To make sure it functioned I even paid for a membership myself. Seemed to work.

Please look around in my "store" - it doesn't cost anything to see Kaleimodoodle 25o711 by Ludwig Keck - there are many options, even reproduced on merchandise like a coffee mug or pillow. And if you really like it, well, you can get it a bit cheaper in my membership store. Not many people find my place. I don't advertise. 

I would like your thoughts on my art there.

.:. © 2025 Ludwig Keck