#piet

Einfach nur Piet.

Warum?

Weil es Monsieur Piet ist.

Nicht meine beste Zeichnung, aber genug.

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Hier die Timelapse. <3

I created this guy in Tomodachi and first I was 'meh' but then he grew on me and I love the color combo. So I want to make him into an real OC and tried drawing him.

27th March 2006: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener died.

Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1925.

His father sounds like a real character and bootlegged alcohol from Nassau into until the repeal of prohibition laws in 1933, when he and Finlay’s mother unsuccessfully attempted to start an orange-growing business in Florida, before returning to Scotland in straitened circumstances. Finlay himself had been sent to Scotland at the age of six, boarding first at Larchfield School near Helensburgh, then Dollar Academy.

Over the next 40 years became one of Scotland's most distinguished artists: a poet, philosopher and gardener with work exhibited in the great museums of the world despite Finlay himself rarely leaving the home in the Pentland Hills where he lived from 1966 until his death in 2006. He is probably best known for Little Sparta, the classical garden he built in the midst of a bleak Scottish moor - a fusion of so many of his artistic ideas and principally of his concern with man's relationship to nature. With the assistance of his collaborators, Finlay translated his proposals into myriad different objects. From sculptures in stone and glass and neon, to postcards, prints and booklets, they are united in diversity by their place in Finlay's fundamentally poetic view of the world.

Finlay suffered a stroke early in the 2000s, and died on 27 March 2006 in a nursing home in Edinburgh.

Pics are of the man himself, part of Little Sparta and one of his poems called a Poppoy 2 that was reproduced on a postcard for National Poetry Day 2012.