Show Us Your Art! (and other art talk)

[Oak Tree]

@Oldbiscuit
Painter doing a self portrait is my favorite.
That one speaks to me on about 9 levels.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

@Oldbiscuit I didn't want to disparage the art with a I'm not laughing at it, but with it. The dentist and the self portrait literally made me laugh out loud. That is great stuff, Norman Rockwellesque charm

 

[Ulu]

Thats cool and like "ground up programming" as in from scratch, all my stuff was done on adobe, photoshop,After Effects and premier Pro, I use garage band on apple for the music, the UFO's were made on blender and the rendered vids brought across to after effects and <get this, went through 2 months of searching for a web site that allowed the use of sound effects in an NFT, Almost every company promised unlimited use except for NFT's as they had monetary growth aspects aligned....Pffttt, nonsense if ya ask me!
But YES, dig that old comp out, research your old work and download "Unreal Engine 5" and relive your game designing, you'll be amazed at how easy unreal engine is and its where its at for cash online! you can make projects on there and developers may see it and make an offer etc!! it does happen!

I’m sure I played Unreal over 20 years ago. I am seriously amazed that it is still of interest. I played at least two and possibly three versions of that game.

If I get desperate enough to go back to work and actually earn money . . . Well let us just hope that that never has to happen. I’m seriously addicted to retirement.

 

[Pauliemon]

Oh Matti that is a little dark but I love your style. That artwork would be real cool on a bike.

 

[Ulu]

To be clear, I never target private spaces or small businesses. I aim to reclaim what corporations have taken in the public space. Subversion of outdoor advertising is my favorite.

You sound like a sort of graffiti Zoro, on a mission, “targeting” things.

We don’t have big billboard advertising in most of this town. They’re just not allowed anymore. If you go to the next town it’s a different story and you will notice big billboards for things like the Indian casinos and popular yuppie market places.

At the busiest intersection in Fresno there’s a huge electronic billboard that changes every 30 seconds or something. I’ve been waiting 20 years for somebody to hack that thing and put up some .....

But that will never happen and so it will remain there forever.

 

[Oldbiscuit]

@Oldbiscuit I didn't want to disparage the art with a I'm not laughing at it, but with it. The dentist and the self portrait literally made me laugh out loud. That is great stuff, Norman Rockwellesque charm

Thanks Matt, the Dentist was built for my daughter in law as a business card holder at her reception desk. She is a dentist, but she didn,t see the humor in it and never displayed it. The self portrait was my take on Norman Rockwells painting and one of my favorites as well.

 

[Ulu]

I think a cute idea would be to do a little nut and bolt doggy with a Victrola, listening to his masters voice.

When I was doing collage art, I did lots of mechanical things. Tractors, locomotives, airplanes, & automobiles, and I even did one of a robot.

That one won second prize in a contest I didn’t even know existed. We were having an art show up by Clearlake in a place famous for its artesian wells, the contest was that you were supposed to display “an artesian”.

I think second prize was $50, which was quite welcome, because I had a wife and two little girls to feed. I also sold the robot for $30.

That doesn’t sound like much but back then $30 would have bought 50 gallons of gasoline.

 

[Pauliemon]

I’m seriously addicted to retirement.

I hear that Ulu. I always hated work. I started work for the State of CA. at 19. The day I turned 50 I retired, sort of. I already had a mail order biz on the side. After retiring I went to work in a bike shop doing what I love. Bike Shop pay is crap but I already had two other sources of income. That first shop was fun. Lots of young people working there. A mandatory river ride on Saturday before work etc. I got hired away for more $$$. That second shop was more business less fun. Still great people. One day I walked into Ventana Mountain Bikes and walked out with a new job.

That's me on the left. The other guy, fabricator extraordinaire Robert Ives. Robert is also Blue Collar Bikes. This was the best job I ever had. I knew how to build bikes up, build wheels, rebuild suspension, etc. Here I learned how to build frames. The people here were extremely cool. Plus they gave me a raise after a month! I left Ventana in 2013 and retired all the way. Now I live the good life. My wife and I adopt and foster dogs.

LIFE IS GOOD

 

[Pauliemon]

My favorite dog pic.

 

[BDC]

Is photography art? I think it's debatable and personally lean more to towards 'artisan'.
But I do push the buttons for part of my living.

My bike photo site: https://www.davidcohen.co

 

[rickpaulos]

A local art group organizes an annual event they call 2x2xU. you pay $20 up front, get a 2' x 2' piece of 3/4 plywood. You have a couple months to make art on the plywood following the theme (different every year). Then all the entrys are displayed for the public to view. Grant Wood was a famous artist from the area. American Gothic is his most famous work but there were many more. I made a all steel & tin version of his painting "Fertility". I called my entry "FerTINity" since I used tin cat & food cans and bits of steel roofing. All nailed in place with tiny round headed brass brads. I'd seen some pretty cool similar art at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville using the metal and nails method.








More about David Wasserman
https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/...automobiles_of_the_lane_motor_museum_in_nashv

 

[Son of Kradus]

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Thats some of the coolest stuff I seen in a while! well done!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Is photography art?

I'd say it certainly can be, but not all photography is..

One day I walked into Ventana Mountain Bikes and walked out with a new job.

That's pretty freaking incredible to put on the resume, those bikes are quite respected. Some would say that a custom welded steel frame is a work of art, I might be one of them...
I believe @Karate Chicken Industries got a custom or two from Ventana, but he hasn't been around lately

 

[Pauliemon]

Yeah where is KCI? He is good buddies with a guy who sold Ventana. I believe they also did mtn bike tours in Colorado. Seriously nice guy.

Ventana started out steel but switched to aluminum. They did build a steel coupler tandem that was a work of art.

Their history is a bit on the secretive side. They built bikes for other companies also. It was always hush, hush. A few years back they were building Fat Chance frames. I happen to stop by one day and met Chris Chance. Waaaay back in the late 90s they built frames for a very large bike company. Most of those were built for the TDF.

 

[Oldbiscuit]

The thinker

Apollo

The weight lifter

Excaliber

The archer

The safe cracker

The manipulator

Blowing the safe

Master angler

 

[Klings]

I don't know if you can say art but i have made same stuff.

 

[Ulu]

@Oldbiscuit
That stuff is just so comical!

 

[rickpaulos]

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Now what was that combination?

It was Atlas that held the world on his shoulders. Not Apollo or Hercules.

 

[user 35233]

I've been playing a bit with spray art. When the weather warms I hope to get back at it.
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Very nice. I don't paint much these days but I keep a healthy rack on hand. This is my real happy place.

 

[user 35233]

A local art group organizes an annual event they call 2x2xU. you pay $20 up front, get a 2' x 2' piece of 3/4 plywood. You have a couple months to make art on the plywood following the theme (different every year). Then all the entrys are displayed for the public to view. Grant Wood was a famous artist from the area. American Gothic is his most famous work but there were many more. I made a all steel & tin version of his painting "Fertility". I called my entry "FerTINity" since I used tin cat & food cans and bits of steel roofing. All nailed in place with tiny round headed brass brads. I'd seen some pretty cool similar art at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville using the metal and nails method.








More about David Wasserman
https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/...automobiles_of_the_lane_motor_museum_in_nashv

Well done! That looks like a lot of fun. I dig that crosshatching on the barn.
This piece caught my eye in the museum link.. The 1932 Helicron: