Show Us Your Art! (and other art talk)
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Canyon de Chelly, AZ
Joshua Tree National Natural Landmark, UT
Lone Ranch Beach, OR
Great Salt Lake, UT
Yermo, CA
Copperton, UT
Westbound
Moki Dugway, UT
Lucerne, CA
Oquirhh's, Stansbury's and New Saltair
Canyon de Chelly, AZ
Mojave National Preserve, CA
Pasarella JK, Sampa
Joshua Tree National Natural Landmark, UT
Lone Ranch Beach, OR
Great Salt Lake, UT
Yermo, CA
Copperton, UT
Westbound
Moki Dugway, UT
Lucerne, CA
Oquirhh's, Stansbury's and New Saltair
Canyon de Chelly, AZ
Mojave National Preserve, CA
Pasarella JK, Sampa
Gorgeous work!
I just put together my first Linux machine in two decades. No wait three decades!
Yeeesh….,
Anyhow eventually I will load gimp. I’ve never worked with it before but it looks like fun. I also have a program called Caligari Truespace, Which does 3-D modeling of an artistic nature, and Revit, which way does 3-D modeling of a structural nature.
I haven’t run any of that in a long time.
the picture on Great Salt Lake of the two chairs and table. Oh my. I could stand to have that in my house.
Pretty awesome photographs all right!
I used to drive a truck out to the missile range at Dugway and deliver their eggs & groceries. I remember going down that highway, across the salt flats, when the water was up to the road on both sides.
It was like just driving out into the ocean on a road that goes to nowhere.
US-80: Actually it goes to Wendover Nevada
The biggest problem I have had with my art is having the space to keep it. I have done a lot on my computer, but then I have had to print them out when I have had a show, so that now I have some on the walls of our house in the country and also at my place of work, even though I rarely go there.
I kind of decided to move into making things from cardboard packaging, mostly because here in Poland I could see the amounts being used rocket.
Here is my favourite, 'cow', and yes all those cardboard squares I stuck on were from the cardboard boxes used to contain 12 cartons of milk.
What I like about art is that you make things that are unexpected, and that no one can predict, not even you. Art for me is when you rough something out, and then do something to it that is unpredictable, and then soldier on until it is done. Even 'done' is unpredictable - on 'cow' you can see many unfilled spaces, because a part of art is questioning everything, including what we mean by 'done'.
I used to pick a box up while doing my shopping, rather than use a basket, then take our shopping home in it. These days I could just go out and get some boxes from where people discard them in our housing unit.
Below you can see the back of 'cow', where I used the whole sides of the boxes: "milk", or "mleko" in Polish.
You can also see here the tank / seat /rear lights that I created for one of my bicycles last year, 'Bar Mleczny' ('milk bar') and 'Tesco HP Sauce' autumn leaves.
On the left below there is a 'book' I made out of carboard, that also reuses the leftover items from other projects and has a hole in the other side where you can store things like books. On the right there is an overhead view of a market - and yes, lots of 'mleko' crates were involved.
Finally, here is one side of a pair of Christmas 'bombki' I made. This one hangs from our room lights at our flat, while the other hangs all the time in my workplace.
Today I keep rebuilding my stock of bicycle parts, now that we have a place in the country, mostly reusing old 'Romet' parts as Romet was the major Polish bicycle manufacturer during the Communist era, and they are still easy to find. Since I do not want a whole shed of bikes that I rarely ride, I actually rebuild them in different ways, then strip them down sometime later - which means that I am always repairing the parts that I have got so that I can occasionally sell rebuilt Romets. Every time that I sell one, then I can buy another one in shabby condition.
I kind of decided to move into making things from cardboard packaging, mostly because here in Poland I could see the amounts being used rocket.
Here is my favourite, 'cow', and yes all those cardboard squares I stuck on were from the cardboard boxes used to contain 12 cartons of milk.
What I like about art is that you make things that are unexpected, and that no one can predict, not even you. Art for me is when you rough something out, and then do something to it that is unpredictable, and then soldier on until it is done. Even 'done' is unpredictable - on 'cow' you can see many unfilled spaces, because a part of art is questioning everything, including what we mean by 'done'.
I used to pick a box up while doing my shopping, rather than use a basket, then take our shopping home in it. These days I could just go out and get some boxes from where people discard them in our housing unit.
Below you can see the back of 'cow', where I used the whole sides of the boxes: "milk", or "mleko" in Polish.
You can also see here the tank / seat /rear lights that I created for one of my bicycles last year, 'Bar Mleczny' ('milk bar') and 'Tesco HP Sauce' autumn leaves.
On the left below there is a 'book' I made out of carboard, that also reuses the leftover items from other projects and has a hole in the other side where you can store things like books. On the right there is an overhead view of a market - and yes, lots of 'mleko' crates were involved.
Finally, here is one side of a pair of Christmas 'bombki' I made. This one hangs from our room lights at our flat, while the other hangs all the time in my workplace.
Today I keep rebuilding my stock of bicycle parts, now that we have a place in the country, mostly reusing old 'Romet' parts as Romet was the major Polish bicycle manufacturer during the Communist era, and they are still easy to find. Since I do not want a whole shed of bikes that I rarely ride, I actually rebuild them in different ways, then strip them down sometime later - which means that I am always repairing the parts that I have got so that I can occasionally sell rebuilt Romets. Every time that I sell one, then I can buy another one in shabby condition.
LOL I don’t remember ever seeing that!
I was hoping that it will dry up enough this year that my favorite Norwegian throttle jockey could make a run at Bonneville.
He got rained out the last time he came.
I was hoping that it will dry up enough this year that my favorite Norwegian throttle jockey could make a run at Bonneville.
He got rained out the last time he came.
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beautiful reclamation all round. I've often appreciated all that wasted pallet wood but rarely find nice use for it like you have here.
WOW to all the art in here! Now this IS my jam! I hope I'm not too late to join the party! 
I paint, create art/bootleg toys, illustrate and everything in between. Here's one of my creations for an online art toy show/auction I did back in 2021.
IG: gutter_kreep
Roku (六, six)
The sixth son of a sixth generation ninja, Roku’s lust for power led him to the study of various occult practices. While reciting an incantation, Roku conjured an Oni born of a dragon and demon. It went by the name Kirai. In exchange for ultimate power, Kirai asked for an offering of 666 souls. Every life taken by Roku’s blade called The Soul Keeper, slowly transforms his once humanoid-monkey form into a demon dragon warrior while increasing his strength and mystical powers. Roku will stop at nothing to achieve his goals, even if that includes taking the souls of the nine other monkey ninja assassins.
Size: Roku (6.75 x 4 x 4.5 in.), Box (7 x 5.5 x 2.75 in.)
Medium: Mixed Media (resin, epoxy, acrylic paints, synthetic leather)
Artist Note: Includes hand-made custom wooden box, detachable haidate and extra straps
I paint, create art/bootleg toys, illustrate and everything in between. Here's one of my creations for an online art toy show/auction I did back in 2021.
IG: gutter_kreep
Roku (六, six)
The sixth son of a sixth generation ninja, Roku’s lust for power led him to the study of various occult practices. While reciting an incantation, Roku conjured an Oni born of a dragon and demon. It went by the name Kirai. In exchange for ultimate power, Kirai asked for an offering of 666 souls. Every life taken by Roku’s blade called The Soul Keeper, slowly transforms his once humanoid-monkey form into a demon dragon warrior while increasing his strength and mystical powers. Roku will stop at nothing to achieve his goals, even if that includes taking the souls of the nine other monkey ninja assassins.
Size: Roku (6.75 x 4 x 4.5 in.), Box (7 x 5.5 x 2.75 in.)
Medium: Mixed Media (resin, epoxy, acrylic paints, synthetic leather)
Artist Note: Includes hand-made custom wooden box, detachable haidate and extra straps
Nine minutes on Paulista Avenue
In the fall of 2015 protests against government/industrial corruption broke out all over Brazil.
It was about 4:00 PM and the sun was low on the right but a mirrored-glass building reflected the light back from the left giving an interesting surround lighting affect.
In the fall of 2015 protests against government/industrial corruption broke out all over Brazil.
It was about 4:00 PM and the sun was low on the right but a mirrored-glass building reflected the light back from the left giving an interesting surround lighting affect.
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