Alan G. Brooks - Art and Illustration

This book was supposed to hit home and have uncomfortable truth's within it.  It was meant to provoke and make you uncomfortable in it's "what if" scenario.  Now we see it was prophetic all along.  It's happened - happening - and in your face - right now.  Unbelievable.  Actually, I'll rephrase that.  It is totally believable.  Nobody has to travel far to see it unfolding in their daily lives. Live and in color . . .  1984 The above piece was made a few years ago for a magazine when the story 1984 was still a novel.  A disturbing read at the best of times. Provocative and unnerving. But still just a novel. I didn't really expect to see it play out the way that it is. It seemed to be steadily getting closer. Then all of a sudden - and in fast forward - we are now suddenly  in it. Alan Brooks

Originally posted Sunday, July 14, 2013 A repost of a piece about Jesus - therefore  this must be about the Return of Jesus! Man of Sorrows Above - Man of Sorrows after my original discovery on Google Earth. Original capture from Google Earth 14th July 2013 Within the capture I noticed a face in the center of the map of the USA. The face is to the right of the center and is slightly looking down - appearing sorrowful - mournful. Below - a close up of the profiled face. Face detail - prior to enhancement Area on map of finding Enhancement - and rough detailing of the discovery Man of Sorrows I think - quite rightly so - it was the right time to bring this piece out again. All shall be revealed. Onward and Upward Alan Brooks

Impressionism - or art that made an impression . . . on me study for painting Above is my "preparatory" study for the impressionist piece entitled "Cortez Woman with Peacock" The finished piece is below. Finished artwork In actual fact as you will see below it is something I saw in the landscape near Cortez. The original findings you will see from a screenshot of Google Earth below. Original finding from Google Earth Alan Brooks Onward and Upward

. . . originally posted March 23 2013. My family send me cuttings from their local newspaper every now and again. It keeps me in touch a little way in getting to know what's going on in their village of Catshill and the larger town of Bromsgrove nearby. One of the cuttings was the one above which I copied and stuck to my pin board in the studio where I work. I couldn't help but see the spectral figure of a man in the tree, to the left of the church spire. I knew that he had something to say- so I decided I couldn't put it off any longer. I decided to investigate the message that wanted to appear. Using my intuitive methods I searched for the right picture - and when found - placed it in overlay on the original picture to line it up and observe the match. Match it did. I thought it might be W H Auden or A E Houseman because I used my intellect to try and "join in" on the proceedings. Not a good idea. My first thought was that...

Below are two unrelated photos that I am using to illustrate a point - [always hard to do when describing images] in this case it is once again about the Fab's, the Beatles, their alleged army of doubles, multiples, or call them as you will. The picture above has a still from the Michael Bay movie The Island [at right.] At left, of course are John and Yoko. As I was looking at the picture of the "Island" figure I couldn't shake off a 'vision' of John Lennon "superimposed" over the top of the mans head. The mans ear was giving way to / or morphing into Lennons eye. The bright area of the mans cheek and jaw was highlighting Lennons nose and so forth. This was not a vague representation or a staring at the clouds fantasy. The images were most clear and grew seamlessly as if they had always belonged together. After this event had somewhat subsided I searched for an image of Lennon that matched the one I had intuitively seen when they appeare...