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Published: 2007-01-16 15:56:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 4013; Favourites: 71; Downloads: 38
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I'm sure no-one's ever done an oil painting of a Top Gear screenshot before ^^But I love being the first to do so
It's Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson on Clarkson's upturned 'Toybota' from the best ever episode of Top Gear. Painted over Christmas to try out painting on canvas...which I like it turns out. Oddly painted whilst watching the entire first and second series of Roger and the Rottentrolls on youtube because it's narrated by Martin Clunes. Who is cool.
Anyway - enjoy!
- oil on canvas, 23 x 31 cms, 3 hours? maybe more...
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You mean ex-amphibious car. It's more of a submarine now... 
Loved that episode.
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richard: (dying of laughter) its going over!!!
jeremy: two miles and it goes now. NO, NO, NO!!
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This is brilliant! I think you captured the scene really well. I used to do oil painting lessons and now I regret quitting them 
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Thanks!
You should keep practicing. Practice helps more than any lesson (although obviously lessons help to learn the technical stuff about mediums and all that!). Good luck!
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Hamster - "There was only one problem *points at Jeremy*
Jezza - Me!!?
I love how those 2 always argue it's pretty funny to watch
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Yes, I loved that bit. Jeremy's indignation was hilarious
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That is sub zero cool ^^ awesome job on this xD such a funny moment...
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Thanks, it was a hilarious moment
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Thanks, it is a good episode 
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Richard: Look! It's the Titanic moment, look! It's going! It's going!
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Hehe, I need to watch this episode again, I think I've had a long enough break from it
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Thats fantastic XD
I loved the part where they try to get to France, and James kept getting smacked in the head with his sail xD
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Thanks! Yeah, that bit was funny! And the rough waves where Richard couldn't see where he was going
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haha
"ITS COMING THROUGH THE SUNROOOOF!"
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"and had the tyres of my car stabbed flat by angry fangirls"
lol. : D That just about sums some of them up doesn't it? (especially the Hammond ones...No offense).
There really are too many people out there taking it way to far aren't there?
I used to get links to fanporn surreptitiously sent to me in innocently titled e-mails by mates who knew I liked Top Gear, even when I told them I didn't want it in my life. *fear*
I guess I don't care what people write in those stories really, as I suppose it's harmless enough and at least it shows people are using their imaginations. It's when they mention partners or families of the people their stories focus on-or even get them involved-that I get worried.
That just doesn't seem appropriate no matter what their reasons for doing it.
Nice perspective by the way.
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I hope you (and Orlifan) don't mind me reacting to this but...as you must have noticed, I'm a huge fangirl of Hammond's. Now, I didn't take offence in your comment, but I just wanted to say : Not all of his fangirls are that bad. We don't usually go around ruining other people's cars/whatever out of jealousy. It's just something that happened in my dream and it's a huge cliche, really
Right, that said, I agree with your point on slashy fanfics. I usually don't care about what people write in those, because I don't read them. I don't like them anyway so I might as well avoid them. (Which is what I do
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Don't worry, I agree, (and I did only say some of them, not all...most seem quite normal thankfully...and luckily for him!).
But there are some forums (that shall remain nameless), that seem to be populated mostly by the slightly more..."touched" fans shall we say, which were the people I was thinking of when I wrote the post, and they do worry me so I keep away from nearly all Top Gear websites.
If they were all like that the poor guy's life would be impossible! O_o
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I agree. I usually stay way clear of the forums...Some of the people there are freaks
I only check the TG sites for the latest news, but that's all I ever do on them, really.
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Definitely with you on that last point though, it's alright if it's the celebrities themselves because it's a sort of two-way thing with the fans. Something that sorta comes with the job (I know its not as clear cut as that but there's the basics
And thanks
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omg...I'm jawdropped by the sight of this
That is one of the most amazing pieces of art I've ever seen...And it gets even better, it involves Top Gear! That is like...double-score! If there was a way to double-fave something, I surely would have done that.
Love that episode. I really loved seeing Richard not being able to stop laughing after the Toybota decided to flip over
I know what you mean by having seen this episode far too many times...I understand, I really do...
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Hehe! Thanks! Yeah, I had to paint this part
By the way I am in love with your avatar! I loved that bit of the episode
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... lol, I'm still laughing my head off! I'm surprised it didn't come off yet, lol 
I'm so glad you decided to paint this...makes me want to watch that episode again (for like, the millionth time or something, I lost count
Lol, glad you like my avatar.
Ahaha yeah, the Vietnam episode... Utter brilliancy. Just like about every other TG episode. And I loved the part in my avatar because it was SO...RANDOM.
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Hahaha awesome
I had a friend visiting me the other day, and we watched the Vietnam episode again. I swear, I talked the entire episode saying exactly what the guys were saying... at the exact same time they said it...
And after that we watched the Africa episode again...The same thing happened : me quoting the guys the entire episode through
I must've drove my friend nuts, I'm sure of it
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Though one friend spent two years refusing to watch it and now likes it
I'm waiting til they bring the Vietnam episode and the African episode out on DVD like they did with the US and Polar one. They must do
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I infected my best friend with the Top Gear virus...
I'm so glad I did that, means I'm no longer the lonely TG-addict
Though I usually watch TG with my dad... But he just likes it and I'm, well...maybe a tad bit obsessed
I watch it whenever I get the chance... I watch the new epi's on BBC2 whenever they're on....and when they're repeating old episodes and doing the "Best of Top Gear"-stuff (like they're doing again now), I watch those too. And I watch the repeats of old episodes on a belgian and on a dutch channel too....
I can't wait till the new season starts...I always think it takes way too long...
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Belgian and Dutch channel? I went on holiday to Holland a couple of years ago and we never saw Top Gear...we saw Pride and Prejudice with subtitles though
Yeah, I'm glad one of my friends likes it now. It's weird how popular it's become since I liked it, gone up and up! That's helped
Yeah...there's definitely too long in between series - but at least the last one was a decent length. The series before was way too short.
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Well, I live in Holland and old TG eps are on every Friday night. And Canvas (the Belgian channel) has them on Mondays. Still, those epi's are like, two years old or something...
Thank heavens for BBC2. And the Internet
I've been a TG fan for a couple of years now, and I see what you mean. In the beginning (of TG as it is now, new style), nobody had ever heard of it. And now nearly everybody knows it. Still, I only managed to get one of my friends addicted to it...
True. Very true. Way too short.
Still, I just can't wait for the next series...I grow more and more impatient with each day...
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Hehe, we have BBC2, BBC3 and Dave and Dave+1 now
I like seeing the really old episodes when Jeremy isn't grey haired, James has short hair and Hamster has really bad shirts because there's the vague chance that I won't have seen those episodes. They tend to repeat only the most recent two series again and again and again.
Holland was great btw, though I wish I'd seen more
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Lol, they're currently repeating those old episodes you're talking about on Veronica (the Dutch channel)... Hamster just looks so damn cute with those bad shirts. But maybe I'm just saying this because I'm obsessed with him. He can look good in anything, for all I care
Cool you've been to Holland! Where did you go? Amsterdam?
LOL @ your spelling.
The correct spelling :
Hoofdkussen
Koffie met appelgebak
If you want more lessons, let me know
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Haha! True, though I do prefer him in jackets rather than those shirts
Went to Amsterdam for a day trip whilst in Holland (on a day when everything was closed; my family's timing is brilliant). But we stayed near Apeldoorn, can't remembered exactly where though
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Hmm, if I had to choose between him wearing jackets or him wearing bad shirts...I'd go for the jackets too.
Lol, most of the tourists visit Amsterdam. But I think Amsterdam is a little bad for our image, though...Too many coffeeshops. I think it gives foreigners a wrong impression of us, they must be thinking we're all on crack here or something O.o". Which is SO untrue.
Ah, I see you went to Delft! Bought any "Delfts Blauw"-themed souvenirs, by any chance? xD
Yay for appelgebak, lol.
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Hehe! There were a lot of coffeeshops
No, it was a shame, because I would have wanted to get some as a little souvenir, like that
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Lol...By coffeeshops, I meant the shops that sell weeds, not coffee...(for some retarded reason, those are called coffeeshops, even though they don't sell coffee)
Aww, such a shame you weren't able to buy much. It usually rains a lot around here, so yeah...
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Ah, suprisingly we didn't come across many of them 
Haha, rains a lot here too! It's raining at the moment. Moday and Tuesday we had a freakish amount of snow and since then it turned to rain ^^
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Lol, stange museums?...Like?
It's still raining here. We had a little bit of snow last week, though. I guess Britain's getting most of the snow.
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Er, one was the condom museum
Yeah... it's STILL raining here...!
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Lol!
Aww it won't stop raining here either...O.o"
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Haha! It's sunny now! 
I must stop talking about the weather, am such a stereotype
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hahahaha...The weather here is just dreadful...It just keeps raining
Well, we could always talk about something else?
Umm...*thinks hard*...Top Gear?
(Lol, I can keep on talking about it like, forever
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Haha, yeah, alright
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