Author Topic: Artist Thread (Read 35561 times)

Frankenkit · « **Reply #150 on:** March 05, 2009, 07:21:52 AM »

My sis and I played a lot of video games for a long time, so it of course worked into her painting...

gerhed · « **Reply #151 on:** March 05, 2009, 07:35:31 AM »

Quote from: Ecosse on March 04, 2009, 09:23:19 PM

Like it gerhed. Is it yours?

yes, It's mine--Have done many pics with this technique--
--positive feedback is a rarity--thanks.

Selenunte in S.W. Sicily. (on my way to the '71 Targa Florio)

<a href="http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u251/gearheaded_photos/selunte.swf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u251/gearheaded_photos/selunte.swf</a>

Ecosse · « **Reply #152 on:** March 05, 2009, 05:52:14 PM »

gerhed, I don't know what your methods were for the first one but it resulted in an interesting effect. Just had to throw in you saw the Targa Florio didn't you?

Kit, do you know what your sister used? I'm always curious about these things.

might have posted this already.

Frankenkit · « **Reply #153 on:** March 06, 2009, 04:33:35 AM »

acrylics on a pencil sketch, my man.

Ecosse · « **Reply #154 on:** March 06, 2009, 11:24:01 AM »

i still haven't mastered acrylics...

that almost sounds like i'm suggesting i've mastered any media!

Frankenkit · « **Reply #155 on:** March 06, 2009, 11:30:53 AM »

Acrylics are harder than oils imo. Sure they're faster to work with but it's really hard to get good with varying opacities, drybrushing, and other techniques.

Ecosse · « **Reply #156 on:** March 06, 2009, 11:51:00 AM »

Quote from: Kit on March 06, 2009, 11:30:53 AM

Acrylics are harder than oils imo. Sure they're faster to work with but it's really hard to get good with varying opacities, drybrushing, and other techniques.

You hit it right on the head! However, I want to become comfortable with it as I think it has some pluses. Some older artists (70's) I know switched to them because oil fumes finally took its toll on them.

Part of why I like oils I like to think is because of the relationship to my other passion, machines. I like using oils (not 10w/40) to paint my favorite subject matter.

Frankenkit · « **Reply #157 on:** March 06, 2009, 01:42:37 PM »

I'm in love with the smell of linseed oil etc, and the way oil paint flows, but cleanup is such a PITA...

gerhed · « **Reply #158 on:** March 06, 2009, 02:02:11 PM »

Quote from: Ecosse on March 05, 2009, 05:52:14 PM

gerhed, I don't know what your methods were for the first one but it resulted in an interesting effect. Just had to throw in you saw the Targa Florio didn't you?

Ecos--I actually went to the '70 and '71 Targas
and 2 weeks after the '71 Targa, I was
(not to drop names) in Monte Carlo for the
Grand Prix.--Glory Days !!

grhd

Ecosse · « **Reply #159 on:** March 06, 2009, 02:13:09 PM »

gerhed, you suck.

(i kid)

I'd rather see Monte Carlo (rallye/ F1-gp) then rather than now. In fact I'd rather see any race, visit any location, 30 yrs. ago. Well, except Vietnam.

I'm with ya kit. The smell and feel is addictive; clean up can be a drag. Still, I miss painting as I've been away from it for a while. No work space I'm afraid.

Frankenkit · « **Reply #160 on:** March 06, 2009, 02:18:22 PM »

I think I have spare canvasses somewhere, but I have this problem of feeling really artistically inspired, then I sit down in front of the canvas and pffft! the idea's gone. Seems to happen with writing, too, for now, unless it's about the bike. Funny how that happens.

...oh, and my motorcycle sketches are goin' great guns anyway.

Bonafide · « **Reply #161 on:** March 08, 2009, 08:48:05 AM »

Quote from: benly- ben on February 10, 2009, 02:57:07 PM

Quote from: Bonafide on February 09, 2009, 07:58:17 PM
I stopped drawing 20 yrs ago when I dropped out of art school and joined the military, but just the other day I pick up a pencil, marker, and paper and started back ....

WOW! 20 yrs. keep it up how much is it if I send you a pic and you sketch it?
Ben

sorry - I dont visit this site very often so I missed the replies. send it to me as a fairly large jpg (b_morty@yahoo.com) and I'll see what I can come up with.

Ecosse · « **Reply #162 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:52:03 PM »

This is different. Forces you to question your perception of 'Fine Art'. About 6 min.

rachet · « **Reply #163 on:** March 18, 2009, 08:19:07 PM »

not sure how I missed this thread but some really great stuff!

Rach~

volkswagendan · « **Reply #164 on:** March 18, 2009, 08:24:15 PM »

i got to see a real pollock today in someones home. not behind glass or in a musum. it was awesome!

Ecosse · « **Reply #165 on:** March 18, 2009, 08:30:00 PM »

Quote from: volkswagendan on March 18, 2009, 08:24:15 PM

i got to see a real pollock today in someones home. not behind glass or in a musum. it was awesome!

I hate you.

Actually, I use to HATE Pollock but had a change of heart. Him and Rothko have made an impression on me.

Still hate Dada though.

Rent Who the F#@k is Jackson Pollock?, Pollock with Ed Harris, and Jackson Pollock:Love and Death on Long Island.

Frankenkit · « **Reply #166 on:** March 19, 2009, 08:10:47 AM »

that liquid sculpture is fantastic!

volkswagendan · « **Reply #167 on:** March 19, 2009, 11:02:30 AM »

Quote from: Ecosse on March 18, 2009, 08:30:00 PM

Quote from: volkswagendan on March 18, 2009, 08:24:15 PM
i got to see a real pollock today in someones home. not behind glass or in a musum. it was awesome!

Rent Who the F#@k is Jackson Pollock?, Pollock with Ed Harris, and Jackson Pollock:Love and Death on Long Island.

great movie.(who the f is jp) own it. love it. funny you said you hated him. i too thought his work was junk till i learned more and got to see his work up close.

Ecosse · « **Reply #168 on:** March 19, 2009, 11:46:34 AM »

Rothko was in interesting guy. I'm especially taken by his thoughts about what art is. There was a time I would have looked at his stuff and said BFD.

Nice fan site here; bio lifted from Wiki. http://www.myspace.com/mark_rothko

Not everyone's cup of absinthe.

volkswagendan · « **Reply #169 on:** March 19, 2009, 07:50:59 PM »

i just checked out the myspace link. its cool. i like the way the colors complement each other.
...oh boy. i think i'm starting to sound like one of those art nerds. i'm going back to the babe thread now.
lol.

alltherightpills · « **Reply #170 on:** March 19, 2009, 08:34:24 PM »

I know Rothko isn't a terribly impressive artist (I mean it's just freaking color fields), but standing in front of one is simply incredible. It's like standing in front of a Pollock vs. seeing it in an art history book somewhere. They are so huge that they take up your entire field of vision.

Speaking of Pollock, I was going to help move this:

into it's new gallery this week, but they didn't end up needing my help/I had a bunch of other things to do at the other museums I work at. It was being moved because the University of Iowa's Museum of Art got flooded in last summer's floods and they needed a place to store the collection. The Figge Art Museum in Davenport (about an hour east of Iowa City) said that the university's collection could be stored and displayed in their facilities and galleries, and this week was the week to move the Pollock.

I am not quite sure how they moved it in, the damn thing is 8 feet tall and 20 feet wide, so it wouldn't fit in the Figge's freight elevator. It is being hung in the fourth floor, so last I heard, they were either going to hoist it through a window with a crane, or they were going to carry it up the stairs. Either way, I don't know that I would want to be the guy carrying it. I can't say for sure how much it's worth, but let's just say that if it went to auction, it would break all previous records for individual works by a long shot. The current record is 149.6 mil. for this Pollock:

There have been calls from the Board of Regents for the University to sell the Pollock (beings that we've got this here depression on and all, and the University isn't going to have a permanent art museum on campus for at least a decade, and we were hit by the worst flood in history last summer), but the public outcry against such a sale is pretty strong.

Ecosse · « **Reply #171 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:03:28 PM »

Quite cool 'pills. Is that first one 'Mural'? I think it's the one he did for Guggenheim.

I know what ya mean about seeing work in the flesh too.

I can't believe I spelled Guggenheim right.

salvatore13 · « **Reply #172 on:** March 20, 2009, 04:19:27 AM »

Hello,

Great thread this one, I enjoy a lot. I would like to introduce Miroslak Sasek in case you don´t know his work. http://www.miroslavsasek.com

He has a collection of city guides made between 1959 and 1974 which I consider brilliant. I'm a collector of his work and keep buying his guides on ebay.

Thanks for the Banksy link. I didn't know of him and I've found his work terrific.

Regards,
Salvatore
P.S. Someday maybe I will post some of my work... (the level is too high by now!)

alltherightpills · « **Reply #173 on:** March 20, 2009, 05:59:44 AM »

Quote from: Ecosse on March 19, 2009, 10:03:28 PM

Quite cool 'pills. Is that first one 'Mural'? I think it's the one he did for Guggenheim.

I know what ya mean about seeing work in the flesh too.

I can't believe I spelled Guggenheim right.

Yep. It was commissioned by Peg G. for her townhouse. When she moved back to Europe, she offered the painting to the University for the price of shipping. And I believe it arrived folded up instead of being rolled or crated!

volkswagendan · « **Reply #174 on:** March 20, 2009, 08:37:04 AM »

i built a vw bus in my loft apt. bed was on the top so it looked like a canvas sunroof when it was made.
doorbell honked the horn. headlights on a motion sensor when people walked by below. office inside.
tv cart rolled inside for neat clean-up. real wheels. real side window. everything else i made w wood, Plexiglas, or plaster. i'd tell people we backed it in the 2nd floor window.

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