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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 5, 2011 - 10:00am PT
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This is a Polish Artist from the 1900's by the name of Zdzislaw Beksinski.
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justthemaid
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My favorite artist is Irishman Harry Clarke. Illustrator and stained glass artist extraordinaire. Died young in the early 20th century- probably from heath complications from decades of using acid to etch glass. He had a creepy streak as well and was famous for illustrating for Edgar Allen Poe.
This first one is not a painting... it is made by layering acid-etched glass...
One of his Poe illustrations:
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2011 - 10:42am PT
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Nice work indeed, would like to see those glass pieces in person. I really liked the Poe painting, it portraits the weirdness of his poetry. Thanks for the post.
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justthemaid
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Jim Henson's Basement
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The lion's-share of Harry's stained glass work resides permanently in Ireland. They are considered national treasures. I'd like to do a tour someday.
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tiki-jer
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Always have been drawn to Escher's work.
Way too many fav's to list here but I'll try to start:
Robert Williams
Glen Barr
Rick Griffin
Alex Gray
Frank Atkinson
Frank Frazetta
And the list goes on.......
Hey Justin.....nice thread dude!!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2011 - 11:10am PT
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Tikijer, how's your art these days? Pm me for tollhouse climbing.
Alex Grey is my favorite, checking out the rest.
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justthemaid
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Jim Henson's Basement
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I'm actually with you Tiki on the Escher. Definitely ranks up in my top tier as well. I've always admired his ability to temper his technical and mathematics skills with true visionary artistic concepts. Pretty hard to wrap your mind around how his mind worked.
I've always wanted to take Escher's piece "Three Worlds" and execute it in stained glass a'la Harry Clarke using 3 layers of etched and sandblasted and painted glass stacked on top of each other. It's been on my back burner for years. Maybe I'll dig it out again.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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My grandfather, WWI (France), USMC
Done by my amazing sister.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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How cool Justthemaid....I was going to post that one as well.
One of my favorites for sure.
But then I always like the 'moebius' strip too;)
That would be really cool if'n ya do that. Would Love to see that someday!?
Justin....will do if things ever dry out.
Got some paintings and some pen-n-ink in the works.
Hard to get motivated sometimes tho' because of the sporadic work.
Another favorite of mine is Maynard Dixon.Born in Fresno. Interesting story. Seen his work while it toured.
Awesome landscapes...Big Sky.
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tiki-jer
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Nice find Seth, But let's keep it a (clears throat)"Trad" in nature OK?
None of that sporty digital stuff :D
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2011 - 01:11pm PT
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tiki-jer
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Good One!!
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go-B
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Revelation 7:12
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Thomas Hill
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go-B
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Revelation 7:12
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LeRoy Neiman
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Studly
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WA
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Frank Frazetta. He did allot of the covers and illustrations for the Tarzan books, Conan the Barbarian, etc. Sadly, he passed away this past year.
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MisterE
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Bouncy Tiggerville
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I like Gauguin
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Ghost
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A long way from where I started
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Here are a couple of my favorites.
Ed Mell is a fairly well-known painter/sculptor from the US Southwest
Remedios Varo was born in Spain, spent her young adult years in France (in the company of the usual surrealist suspects), and eventually move to Mexico, where she did most of her work. She died there in 1963 (at the far-too-young age of 53). Here's just one sample of her painting
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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Ghost I have that same Ed Mell framed over the mantel here at the hut.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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I'm going to post some images of my nephew's works. His name is Adrian Anthony and he is an unknown. If there happens to be anyone with connections who thinks the kid has talent.... he could use all the help he can get. Not only is he pretty talented(imo), with no art school training, he is a single dad.
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Ghost
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A long way from where I started
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Ghost I have that same Ed Mell framed over the mantel here at the hut.
It's framed on the wall of my office in this Seattle tower. I'm looking at it as I type this post. I scored a bunch of Ed Mell prints for next-to-nothing at some shop in Boulder about 15 years ago.
The other one, the Varo print, is on a wall at home. Her stuff is just mind-blowing.
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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Yes, tiki, I've always loved Maynard Dixon's landscapes.
Reminded me a bit of an amazing landscape painter who pushed into abstraction, name of Douglas Snow, from Utah. Some of his canvases are massive and so immersive.
small images online don't do 'em justice.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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I forgot the woodblock prints of Tom Killion.
Our resident Nater-D turned me on to his work about four years ago.
I like the woodblock stuff from Escher so it just stands to reason I'd like his stuff too. Both artist touch on the 'oriental'.
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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Whoa, speak of the devil!
I gotta peruse some of those other names ya mentioned, tiki.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2011 - 07:17pm PT
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Happy, that sheet looks awesome, he has an eye for color and detail. A good way to get his name out there, if you don't have connections, is by showing his work at a gallery. Get a portfolio of ten to fifteen pieces on a disc and target galleries that are likely to show his work. Thanks for images, those are drawings or paintings?
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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this just in -- I think he uses mixed media but not really sure, as I have to admit I never asked, and haven't seen his work in person(these are posted on his FB). I was at my sisters house over T/G and some oil paintings he had done were on the living room wall, but those were not the same style.
I think he is probably drawing with ink/markers and also paints, but then using scanning pieces and digital manipulation to produce the finished piece.
But I might be wrong.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2011 - 07:35pm PT
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Whatever it is, I like it. Good luck.
Really like that darker woodcut Jerry, reminds me of Ritter and the Minarets.
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tiki-jer
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Nater.....that would be Frank H. Atkinson (Sign Painter)
His work influenced the industry bitd.
Happy, yes the 'kid' has talent......I like the zombie looking one on the bottom. Ya know some of the stuff does look a little digital. Cool tho'.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Amazingly diverse interests represented in this group. I love Maynard Dixon and Ed Mell. My friends gallery is now representing Ed in Palm Desert. Of course, who could argue with Gauguin. I hope to have a speck of that notoriety some day.
Here is a re-post of "Free" and another recent work from my studio, "Crow and Bear Discuss Abstraction" and "Cranes" Enjoy, Jude
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"Free" Oil on Canvas 48"x60"
"Cranes" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
"Crow and Bear Discuss Abstraction" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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thisjustin,
So where can we see some of your work, or is Jeremy the artist? I forget...
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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I just purchased this limited edition/signed screen print of Liberty Cap.
The colors and feel make is seem like a turn-of-the century piece but it is a relatively modern image.
I love this side of Liberty as you rarely see pics of it.
The print just arrived so I had to hold it down on the floor to shoot it.
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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ihateplastic,
artist?
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Nate... Well, I will unwrap it again and try and decipher the sig. However, I bought it on ETSY and the "artist" is listed as The Elecric Company.
PROBLEM... STs web posting tool is not truncating and it is a mess.)
Give me a minute or two and I'll see what the sig says.
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tiki-jer
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I'll answer for him Nate.....its Justin the artist.
But when they both climb its art :D
Some more Fav's:
Thomas BlackshearAlma TademaSinger Sargent
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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As best I can tell... DAVE TORO is the artist.
If you do a search on ETSY for "limited-edition-classic-travel-posters" you will find it.
I just bought the sister print of Nevada Falls... Now where am I supposed to put these?
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Fluoride
Trad climber
West Los Angeles, CA
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We have some damn talented artists in our own community.
"Empire" by Jeremy Collins.
ps - Jeremy congrats on the cover of the new Alpinist!
Half Dome by Renan Ozturk:
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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I grabbed these off ETSY so you can see them better...
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2011 - 09:08pm PT
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Nate I dropped out of grad school a few years back and haven't done much art since. I'd rather go climbing. I only paint when injured or when it rains for days on end. So recently I started a piece but not much to show. I'll dig up some older work and post it later.
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tiki-jer
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I have always loved this one albeit a digital work of art.
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MisterE
Social climber
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For landscapes, Thomas Moran is one of my favorite artists. I have a Yosemite etching of his from the late 1800's that is one of my favorite pieces.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2011 - 10:47am PT
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Francisco Goya. Los Caprichos series of etchings. I saw this show in Vancouver early 2000's.
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FeelioBabar
Trad climber
One drink ahead of my past.
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Doug Snow is AMAZING!! Thanks for posting those Nate D.
those paintings are SO huge....truly inspiring pieces.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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This is Denali by our very own very occasional poster The DrillSargeant!
Sorry, didn't take the time to get the focal plane parallel.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Cool!
Does the drill sergeant/David Whitelaw have a site for his art?
I could not find one.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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He has been shown in galleries across the country but he rather resolutely
refuses to commercialize. He wields a brush at least as well as a hammer,
and he is baad with that!
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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A Leonard Knight original
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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IHP, how are you?.....you can commission me to paint a few things.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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i'm with Locker on this!
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Yeah Joan Miro was always one of my favorites as well!!
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Ghost
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A long way from where I started
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Yeah Joan Miro was always one of my favorites as well!!
A favorite of Dave Brubeck's as well. He used Miro paintings on the covers of at least two of his albums.
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drljefe
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El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Rick Griffin
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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I gotta admit, I am a HUGE fan of my fiancee's work. I am bias though...
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Gene
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Nice Float, Nate D. I'd like to have your climbing talents as well as your artistic ones.
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Nate D
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Well gee, thanks gene. I'm a hack at both, but someday...
Now how about the incredible and highly influential Joseph Cornell:
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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justthemaid's stained glass is first rate.
I recall Bill Cramer's fine work.
And the DrillSargeant's technique is superb.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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No wonder you're Mental! That is extremely impressive!
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Now could you make me a copy of one of my favorites from L'Orsay?
They start 'em young at the Orsay...
"Regardez, mon petit chou..."
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tiki-jer
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FortMental that is a big piece.
Good job very impressive.
The 'Stand" never ceases to amaze.
Say is that venetian plaster on the back wall in pic behind easel?
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2011 - 10:50am PT
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Mental, nice work, looks the same. Master copies are fun to figure out how they did it.
Jeff m. I was about to post Magritte. By far the smoothest painter I've seen in person. The MOMA in SF has some of his work in their permanent collection. You can't find any brush strokes standing a foot from his paintings and his colors are spot on. Going to check the other artist you named.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2011 - 11:05am PT
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Another artist linked to the band Tool
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tiki-jer
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Spider...I've always liked Shag's stuff too. Retro.
I always thought that Michealangelo's study of the Libyan Sibyl had what appeared to be a climbing pose. As homage I did one in charcoal back in'94.
I have a few more in the works too.
Hangs on the wall here at the hut.
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drljefe
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El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Nice family album there, pate.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2011 - 02:16pm PT
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Here's a few of my own...
A couple in progress...
This last series of rain made me paint...
Please throw vegetables at will, but no tomatoes. I hate Tomatoes.
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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Justin,
Really like the 4th and 5th one posted! 6th in progress is really interesting as well.
Hope it rains a bit more. :)
Tiki - I knew you saw rock climbing in everything (a familiar affliction), but even in Michelangelo, eh?
Good stuff all, and amazing undertaking Mental. Down to mixing your own paint!
The frame recreation is off the charts obsessive!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2011 - 02:46pm PT
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Thanks Nate, I hope it rains at about 8,300 feet to melt that snow.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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Hey thanks FM.
You know it Nater, look at architecture the same way!!
Here is a sign from bitd.
Justin, I like the last one dude....gotta finish it.
Ya know perhaps we can colla-beer-ate on beer labels ;)
You guys still brewing??
That was done under stress aand done fast.
Mixed media on Illustration Board.
This one turned into a logo. Watercolor on Illustration Board.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2011 - 09:12pm PT
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Jerry that beer label is classic. We need to brew some, haven't in a while but some fugg looks good to drink.
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nita
Social climber
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I'm a big fan of Chiura Obata's art..I also love the Supertopo artists. Matisse..mtnmum..Miss L.. Jeannie..Annie Cashner and all S.T's. Great photographers .
Tiki, I forgot about that.
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tiki-jer
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Of course Nita that last one was used by Patagonia for a catalog right?
TFPU.
Justin, Thanks. How about 'Shuteye Stoat' (tm).
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2011 - 11:10pm PT
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You're excused Tom. That photo is indeed art. Let's see some slatervision!
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Slater
Trad climber
Central Coast
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Did you check out that video link?
Those dudes were doing hand held video INSIDE the wave while getting tubed.
Outside the box thinking my friends, that is cutting edge stuff... a liquid medium, but still art.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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That was cool Slater....nice camera angles.
Speaking of Art and Liquid.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Nice! Getting into sculpture!
I really like our Guemes-Island neighbor's work. His name is Phillip McCracken:
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Obata's "Lake Basin in the High Sierra" in the de Young 3 blocks away from my abode is stunning!
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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I agree Lolli. I like Klimt too.
And then I admire Alphonse Mucha's work immensely.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2011 - 07:16pm PT
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Pate, Dianne Arbus is one of my favorites and thanks for not posting the transvestite.
This is another photographer. Sebastiao Salgado
Check out his website if you want to see depressing reality.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Here's a line drawing I did some years back...
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Wow, Pat. Took me a few minutes.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Tiki-jer, that work you posted reminds me of another favorite artist - Maxfield Parrish...
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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MisterE, I agree.....I mean how can you forget Parrish.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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"Country Girl"
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Don Stewart-one of my favs.
Gave up a promising career in neurosurgery for his true passion.
Composite art with a ball point pen. www.dsart.com
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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This has become one of my all time favorite threads. Keep em comin'.
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BruceAnderson
Social climber
Los Angeles
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A couple months ago my wife and I moved from L.A. to the little village of St. Antonin in southwest France. These are some sketches (and a painting in progress) I've been doing.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Wow! This thread is astounding. Fabulous stuff in here, eh?
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nita
Social climber
chica from chico..waiting on spring days..
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Mr B.Anderson,..WOW..WOW>>>.Love your art work!!! Seriously...
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2011 - 12:19pm PT
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Mntmun and B. Anderson really like your guys work and Sully those walls look amazing. The large scale needs to be seen in person. Those are your works, right?
Guido thanks for that, never heard of him before but really like his work as well. Doctors are over rated anyways. Hehehe.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Thanks guys. B. Anderson very impressive. Fort Mental could be dangerous if he did origionals. Not to take away from his beautiful reproduction.
"Santa Cruz Harbor" Oil on Canvas 48"x60"
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2011 - 12:38pm PT
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Mtn....do you have a website?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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He does, Just-in, it is
www.judebischoff.com
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2011 - 12:44pm PT
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Thanks Peter.
Edit. Just checked it out and f-ing A awesome. My favorites were your Lake Sabrina and El portal paintings. Thanks for the art Jude and all others as well.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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You are so welcome JI. You can see Cardinal Pinacle in the background of Lake Sabrina.
Bruce Anderson, I realized who you were when I was out running this morning. An amazing talent you are. Can you post up "Madonna with Condom"?
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BruceAnderson
Social climber
Los Angeles
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Madonna with Condom...hmmmm....got me there.
there is a little village here in France named Condom though. seriously.
and thanks for the compliments folks.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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Wow Mr. Anderson.....I like the street scene w/ red shutters and the Donkeys. Would like to see you finish the roof line sketch.
Mtn....I like the nature series.
This was a commissioned painting for Sugar Shane Mosely (the boxer).
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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nice Tiki Jer, really fine work.
Oops, wrong Bruce, I was thinking of Bruce Bigelow from Santa Cruz. Your still an amazing talent.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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Hey thanks Jude. But I forgot to mention that too was a reproduction.
My bad.
The client had a calender of Angels and I used that as referance.
But I kinda painted her to have my wife's features.
The name of the artist evades me presently........off on a info quest!!
Found it! "Winged Figure" by Abbott H. Thayer.
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tiki-jer
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Jan 10, 2011 - 10:15am PT
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Thanks Fort....whats not fair is not getting paid for anything these days.
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Chief
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Jan 10, 2011 - 11:53am PT
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Great thread, so much more inspiring than the usual ST fare.
A couple favorites.
Norval Morrisseau
1937 CF Martins left and center, 08 Musselwhite on right
Also big on;
Lauren Harris
Emily Carr
Charles Edenshaw
Bill Reid
Harold Baker
Van Gogh
Monty Dollack
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phylp
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Millbrae, CA
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Seeing original art of high quality is one of the advantages of living near a major city. For a fairly small amount of $, you can be a member of your local museum, and look at art over time. There are pieces at SFMOMA and the deYoung that I've sat in front of for hours now. Diebenkorn, Thiebaud, Rothko, on and on. The Oakland Museum has a great collection of the Bay Area artists, Bischoff, Oliveira, etc.
My vacations are 99% one of two things: climbing trips or looking at art trips. Last April, we spent two weeks in Rome, looking at amazing art every day. There are so many great art cities, London, Paris, NYC, DC.
Looking at art in person, standing in front of a painting, walking around a sculpture, is a magical experience. I cannot put it into words. Emotion, beauty, transendence...
I'm actually just about to leave to go up to SFMOMA for an hour...
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Disaster Master
Social climber
Born in So-Cal, left my soul in far Nor-Cal.
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Disaster Master
Social climber
Born in So-Cal, left my soul in far Nor-Cal.
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tiki-jer
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Another Banksy.
Not sure if its Banksy
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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Jan 14, 2011 - 02:48am PT
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing - as I wasn't familiar with Bansky's work.
This somewhat temporary work was done with a pressure washer on dirty concrete by Paul Curtis. Coined "Reverse Graffiti".
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Mighty Hiker
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Jan 14, 2011 - 02:53am PT
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FortMental, is all that stuff by Banksy?
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I have always been partial to Dali's work. But I have to disagree with the comment that his work is all small:
The Hallucinogenic Toreador - 157in x 118in
Tuna Fishing - 119in x 159in
The Last Supper - 65in x 105in
Portrait of My Dead Brother - 69in x 69in
The Railway Station at Perpignan 116in x 158in
No famous melting watches or putrification, but I actually prefer his later work, it has the most incredible detail.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 21, 2011 - 11:43am PT
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Phylp / Nate, what's at the MOMA right now?
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Nate D
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Jan 21, 2011 - 02:02pm PT
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Sounds like Phylp gets out much more, and will know much better than I, but here's the list of current exhibitions:
http://www.sfmoma.org/pages/exhib_events
I had hoped to get there to see the Cartier-Bresson photo exhibition, but it likely won't happen. But hopefully when it opens in a month or so, I'll make it there to see the Eadweard Muybridge show.
One of the most memorable exhibits for me in recent years was of Olufar Eliasson's work.
I almost like his photographic series of Iceland more than his interactive conceptual work with light
Any recent favorites Phylp (with images to post)? Anyone else?
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Jan 21, 2011 - 09:09pm PT
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Nice Table!!
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Ihateplastic
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It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Jan 22, 2011 - 07:54pm PT
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Here's how Banksy survives in the 'hood...
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Jan 23, 2011 - 10:48am PT
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This just in,
The day I went up I looked again at "the Anniversary show" which highlights the historical progression of aquisitions of the collection. We arrived just before the start of a docent tour. I usually don't do docent tours - they often do not stay long enough at any particular piece for my taste - but this one was good because of the historical tidbits about the art donors to the museum.
We also went to the exhibit on wine and art, which was quite clever and fun.
Nate, I agree with you, the Olufar Eliasson exhibit was FANTASTIC. I was mesmerized by some of his stuff and he was a new artist for me.
It would be fun to do a "supertopo goes to the museum" event! Maybe I'll try to organize one the next time there's a good new exhibit opening at one of Bay Area museums.
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The Call
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 24, 2011 - 11:26am PT
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Phylp thanks for the update, and yes I would be interested in a ST moma get together.
Peter, whose the artist and those are digital right? Like the call
Jerry, great climbing with you yesterday, slab is a humbling experience for me, scary but FUN.
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Jan 25, 2011 - 10:01am PT
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A Supertopo art hop would be fun.
Justin.....yeah slab can give ya grey hair.
Good lead btw. Got to remember to stretch my calves tho.
From a game we as game developers were trying to market.
Early 90's. Ya know for every game on the store shelves, there are hundreds that never make it due to various reasons.
I have some climber sprites(character animation) that I'll have to post sometime as an aminated .gif
Art thread but climbing related ;)
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 25, 2011 - 10:13am PT
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Jerry that game looks badass any Xbox 360 copies? I ran into Kenny Rose yesterday, and he said him and Mac did Falling Star on Fri. So up top we were following their chalk, what a small world, huh? I'm going to Oakland this weekend but maybe next weekend we can get back on it.
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Jan 25, 2011 - 10:54am PT
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Sounds good.....we'll slab it up.
Oaksterdam huh?
Naw that game never made it :(
I think it was on the original Sega platform.
But the industry progressed in leaps and bounds.
8 bit graphics, then 16 bit, then 32......and so on.
Our programmers could not keep up and the Boss was a punk.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 25, 2011 - 11:23am PT
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Yeah going to watch Supercross but I'll be doing some club'n as well :?
For sure need some more slab training, but I also want to go try Moby Dick.
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Jan 30, 2011 - 02:18pm PT
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Good stuff so far. I dig the classics though;
Imagine the skill to sculpt like this from marble??? Whoa!!!
The Pieta
Moses
And Perseus with the slain Medusa (outside the museum where the infamous David resides)
I have been blessed to have been able to see all these in person. Amazing stuff.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2011 - 02:27pm PT
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Gerry with a G. Huh. Congratulations on your gallery space, look forward to checking it out. Looking @ that slideshow reminded me of my house painting days, which I don't miss at all. Them fumes is no good makes me think dizzzzzzy. Nice though, did you laquer and finish the cabinets? Even black glaze in the detail, now that's where you make money. I'm starting to feel dizzy.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2011 - 02:33pm PT
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Bluering, he was obsessed. It is said he spent night and day, missing meals and sleep for his work. I think this dedication is what makes his work. Much like climbing where your obsession takes over.
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Jan 30, 2011 - 02:39pm PT
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Yes, TJI, he was. I would call it passion, but there is rumor of obsession. It is said that the chip on the right shin of Moses is a result of Michelangelo throwing his chisel at Moses in frustration that he appeared so lifelike that he wasn't indeed real.
Brilliant artist and all-around dude.
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Jan 30, 2011 - 03:26pm PT
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Does this count?
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Jan 30, 2011 - 03:49pm PT
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Wow!! Simon thats pretty cool. Did you find that or perhaps family member?.....recall you saying your daughter illustrates?
Justin, no lacquer at all. Never did that sheet. All waterbase.
Special recipe ;D
Ya full name sounds prestigious.....until they find out otherwise...teehee.
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I found that today on a totally unrelated search. My guess is this is a Russian/Ukrainian woman based on the background in the image and her look/style of dress. A search online for typewriter art turns up a few practitioners.
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Jan 30, 2011 - 03:56pm PT
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Ya but look bottom right behind her....looks like a pack to me :D
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Jan 31, 2011 - 01:34pm PT
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Way to keep this thread going guys. Typewriter art - whoa.
That Jerry (tiki-guy) with a G can do just about anything - 2-D, 3-D, 4-D perhaps?
Here's an awesome commemorative piece he made for me and some of the "Lost Boys":
Ger, post up a pic of the Half-Dome piece for the fairgrounds. I wanna see!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2011 - 02:54pm PT
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Hinterlands!!!!!!!!! That is BADASS!!!!!!
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Mtnmun
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Top of the Mountain Mun
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New Bears: Oil on Canvas 36"x36"
"Spirit Bear"
"Balanced Bear"
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Nate D
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Cool, thanks for the link, TK!
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The Wolf
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Friend of Dope Miller
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The Wolf
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 3, 2011 - 12:19pm PT
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SHEEET yeah! Badass climbing art. Mnt, sheet yeah as well.
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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My own crude attempts at sculpture.
Art Kitty.....
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philo
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Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Locker that chick is hot.
Edit: That's Meg Witmann Right?
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Yeah Survival, I want one of those.
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Byran
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How about some H. R. Giger to darken things up
He also designed the aliens for the Alien movies.
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This dude is pretty cool too
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tiki-jer
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Survival.....those are knott crude at all. I want the orange one!!!
Those are awesome.
NateD you ol' dog. Thanks Bro for the kind words.
I'll post up when I get a chance.....got to move into the gallery.
Let's slab it up again Justin!
Call me.
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phylp
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Bryan, that is pretty amazing. Why is he wasting his time with windshields!
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no doubt.
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Hummerchine
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Enjoy a little Petra art (my baby girl...)!
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bluering
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Feb 13, 2011 - 04:44pm PT
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That's my boy!
from a near-3year old....
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Feb 13, 2011 - 08:42pm PT
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Fort Mental- I saw the Rape of Proserpina in Rome last Spring, as well as large number of other stunning Bernini works. Really just jaw-droppingly spectacular in person.
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Hummer, I really like those images, are they digital?
Blue, that picture of your boy with the pacifier is classic. That's how I'm going to start painting, now. The kid likes Blue rings huh? Looks cool man keep him at it.
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Rainy day painting with my 7 year old. I asked her to explain what she had painted.
"Daddy it's a window with curtains and it's sunny outside!"
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Raining again.
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nita
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chica from chico..waiting on spring days..
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Feb 14, 2011 - 12:30pm PT
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BLD,
I totally agree with Fortmental..
The Sunny outside picture is.. impressive art work!
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Feb 14, 2011 - 03:46pm PT
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BLD, those are some nice pieces. She has talent!
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Feb 14, 2011 - 07:17pm PT
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Randisi - Nice of you to take the time to put up a few more views of The Bernini sculpture.
I haven’t posted any photos to this thread for two reasons. Firstly, because I feel overwhelmed at the thought of picking just a few favorites, and secondly I feel a bit guilty taking up CMac’s server space for non-climbing related photos. Is that silly of me?
In lieu of a photo of something a click away, I’ll just provide a link to one of my favorite US museums:
http://www.phillipscollection.org/homepage.aspx
But I will post a photo of a piece that not many people get to see, since it’s in my house. It’s a piece by an artist named Robert Herdlein, who is a friend of mine:
I’m a big fan of color field and I never get tired of looking at that piece.
More of Bobby’s work can be seen here:
http://www.focusdesign.com/art/docs/june102.htm
I also love the abstract expressionists. My own paintings (usually landscape but sometimes still life) are very loosely figurative, and heavily influenced by both the aforementioned schools.
Here's one of mine:
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:26am PT
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Here's a Photo of (someones?)work of art. This painting is on the ceiling of a concrete bunker above Tennessee Beach near Sausalito, CA. I wish I could do that! I love the other etchings and cracks visible in the field.
Bluering......I like your kids work. I have wine boxes full of that early years work. I have to save it......just cant help it......love it!
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BruceAnderson
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Feb 15, 2011 - 01:28am PT
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These are some small oils I just finished of our little terrier Stella right after she had a bath.
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phylp
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:02pm PT
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I really like those Bruce!
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:19pm PT
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Nice work Bruce!
Here's an acrylic on paper I just did and gave Jill for Valentines Day.
It's a copy of an old Maynard Dixon.
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k-man
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SCruz
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:49pm PT
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MisterE, those stained glass works are Awesome!
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FRUMY
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:51pm PT
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Thanks folks really nice. I don't know why but I really like the little terries Bruce. Also the kids work.
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Nate D
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Feb 15, 2011 - 07:32pm PT
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Yes, the dog paintings are really nice. Love how the eye(s) are so photorealistic but the rest is so painterly.
And Phylp, thanks for sharing Robert's work and your own. Post up more!
Your piece also seems to have a conceptual influence, no? For some reason John Baldessari comes to mind, though I know stylistically that's not quite right.
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phylp
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Here are two pieces from an exhibition currently at the SF Legion of Honor, called "Pulp Fashion, the art of Isabelle de Borchgrave", which Daphne and I went to this past weekend. The artist is inspired by fashion (mostly women's dresses) from recent times, or from paintings and recreates them COMPLETELY out of handmade paper, which she paints, punches etc.
The dresses and other objects are all full size. Even the mannequins are made of paper!
The Legion of Honor and the de Young have been criticized for presenting too much of the "decorative arts" rather than "fine art". I'm not interested in the whole "but is it art" debate. I do enjoy seeing these exhibits, as do many others - they are very popular with the public. When we were there it was packed with people walking around with their mouths dropped open in amazement at the perfection of the craft. Everybody was commenting how much they wanted to touch them.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2011 - 03:06pm PT
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Good photos but one needed to see in person for full enjoyment it looks like. Thanks for the bump.
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Nate D
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Thanks for the share, phylp, as I was curious about this show.
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tiki-jer
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Hey Mental.....you never cease to amaze. Awesome Dude!!
Mr. Anderson....great doggy!
Survival....good job...did see like it?
Maynard Dixon is one of my Fav's...never thought to emulate him....might have to give it a try;) Thanks.
Great stuff......keep it rolling.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2011 - 11:16am PT
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Fort mental. Two words, fuk yeah.
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Elcapinyoazz
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Bump.
Upthread FortMental said "Dali comes to mind. His paintings are all disappointingly small, many no bigger that an 8 X 10 sheet of paper"
Odd sentiment. I've seen lots of Dali works (the Dali museum in St. Pete, FL is fantastic) and some of them are absolutely huge, one of them posted in that post is IRL about 6' x 4'. The Hallucinogenic Toreador is enormous, as is the Columbus landing one (can't recall the actual title). I wouldn't think of his stuff as being typically small at all, although one of the most impressive pieces to me was fairly small, about 20x30ish and not the surrealist stuff people think of, it was a still life of a bread loaf in a basket done to essentially prove to his mentors/teachers that he'd mastered the "normal" painting techniques/style.
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Nate D
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Me likey too, Fort.
This is pretty neato:
Non-Sign II by Lead Pencil Studio
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Anyone in the Fresno area, tonight at the Sorenson Gallery, Tikijer will be displaying some of his art. Hope you have a good showing tiki.
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Keith Leaman
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I've always thought that climbers were among the most talented, interesting, creative, intelligent, inspiring people on the planet.
These threads on ST continue to support my belief.
Here's one of my oil paintings.
A watercolor of Tahquitz' Open Book.
I work on really big paintings.
Thanks-KL
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Forgot the show is 5-8.
KL- I like your work and that painting is huge. How long did that take? Thanks for sharing it.
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Keith Leaman
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TJI- Thanks for the kind words. I emulated painters like Moran and Bierstadt in the 60's and 70's.
Your stark images are reminiscent of surrealists like de Chirico. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Cezanne is considered a post-impressionist and the "father of modern art", while Picasso, though inspired by Cezanne, is thought of as the first Analytical Cubist (although some believe that honor should really go to Braque-especially Synthetic Cubism).
There are usually 3-4 artists who work on the large backdrops. That one took us about a week. Check out this set for Wagner's "Ring" Opera: sculpted foam over steel and ply, then polyshielded and painted. We spent 2 years making sets for one Opera!
Mental-Nice drawing of Pigeon Spire. Your style reminds me of Gunnar Widforss' large watercolors hanging in the Ahwahnee Hotel. You must have had training? Fun thread!
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It's always a treat to see this thread come back and to see the new additions from the many talented climber-artists among us, as well as to see what people are viewing at museums and exhibits.
If you are in the SF Bay area, the "Steins" exhibit at SFMOMA is well worth seeing. Besides the wonderful art (many excellent Picasso and Matisse), the curation is excellent! One of the most interesting features are the large scale (whole wall size) reproductions of photos of rooms in the different Stein's apartments and houses - which shows how they lived with several dozen paintings hung on the walls of one room - 3 or 4 high, arranged from floor to ceiling.
Next week, we have tickets for the Picasso show at the de Young. I'll report back about it!
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Yeah for Tiki! Man I wish I could be there. Best to ya, pal!
Cool work, Keith. Thanks for sharing. Do any of the sets you've worked on travel and get used at other Opera houses? I've seen quite a few nifty sets and drops in recent years backstage at the San Francisco's War Memorial Opera house. Fun stuff.
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Keith Leaman
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Nate D-
Yes, they rent out sets. Google their site and select- about us- there is another site for rentals, some of which I worked on.
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Mtnmun
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The TACO HAS TALENT!!! I am so impressed by the creative drive, the ability to be on the edge and channel the muse. The aliveness displayed in the posted art has me very curious.
What is it about this clan, who scale walls and as Eckart Tolle says, climb to find that moment when it is just you and the rock. The noise stops and you find God. This ability to find this place and channel the inspiration into art. But not just art, magnificent manifestations.
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Here are my latest projects to reach completion. The landscapes were painted on site at Scottsmans Creek above Washington CA. and in The Gold Lakes Wilderness.
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Like em both, but especially that second one. Better not let cragman see these:)
Thanks mtn.
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Aug 24, 2011 - 12:02am PT
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Those ARE neat, mtn.! And cool you did 'em en plein air.
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Your style reminds me of Gunnar Widforss' large watercolors hanging in the Ahwahnee Hotel.
No trip to the valley is complete for me without a visit to those...
great stuff...
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2011 - 11:20am PT
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Mtnmun Bump. I need to see your work in person cause the sh#t looks awesome and unique.
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Studly
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actual photo from inside the boulder of Short Circuit. I was a little confused myself with what I was seeing!
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Nate D
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That is really interesting stuff, TJI.
Wouldn't have guessed.
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phylp
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Yesterday I went to SFMOMA and saw the Richard Serra "works on Paper" exhibit. It was fabulous! Totally not what I thought it might be. I guess I was expecting a series of line drawings as studies for his steel works. But, no! This huge show (17 rooms total) features a lot of wall sized paint pieces, many of them "solid" black. It's the texture, scale and interaction of the pieces in the room that makes these so wonderful.
Really worth checking out.
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paul roehl
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I have a show of landscapes coming up at the Monterey Museum of Art starting in November. Opening is from 5-7pm November 17th and the show runs through to March 4th. If you're in the area drop by.
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phylp
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Bump for Paul's work.
Paul, your work looks wonderful. I will definately take a drive down there to see more of your work in person. Thanks so much for sharing the news.
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Reilly
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OK, here's my try at artsie photography - a shot of sunlight through wavy
obscured glass on a painted wall processed for infrared. No, really!
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Mtnmun
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"Lovers Leap" Oil on Canvas 30"x40"
Spent several days last summer painting this piece on site with Horse Tail Falls to my back and the Pyramid Creek Cascade at the bottom of the painting.
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From Dante's purgatorio
I think it was done by Gustave Doré if I recall...
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nita
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chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Nate D
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amazing.
The guy really knows how to read the landscape.
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phylp
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Millbrae, CA
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Paul- It's on my "list" to go down to Monterey to see your work very soon!
I was in NY at the beginning of December and saw the amazing de Kooning retrospective at MOMA. I went in thinking he was not one of my favorites and came out a believer.
Here's a link to MOMA's media presentation of the show:http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/dekooning/
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Today we went to see the exhibit
"The Cult of Beauty", about the aesthetic movement, at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
It's a well done exhibit of painting, furniture, other objects of utility like fireplace screens, clothing and tea pots, etc. While the style is not something I personally want in my minimalist modern space, they are quite beautiful.
In particular, I admired the James Whistler paintings. When I look at his work in person it seems to me that he was ahead of his time, and setting the stage for the greater freedom in brushwork, mood etc that followed him. Maybe someone who knows more about art history than I can comment.
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what could be more posser thanthis sandbag thread, oh i no Largos debussy thread
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S.Leeper
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somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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my desktop
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Mosaic glass surfboards
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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phylp
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Millbrae, CA
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Stahlbro, the mosaics are beautifu,l but the market has got to be limited to wealthy people with big houses who love to surf! Can there possibly be enough of that category for the artist to make a living off them? Phyl
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SteveW
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The state of confusion
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Courtesy of SherriL
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Pebble Wrestling.... Badly lately.
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I was always very partial to Neirman.
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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G Gnome...beautiful!
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Phyl,
She does all kinds of really interesting glass work besides the surfboards. This is kind of an experiment because she enjoyed the concept. She has a show going on in Carlsbad right now. My girlfriend helped her set up and open the show.
It will be interesting see how it is recieved. Debbie and I are headed down next week to see how it is going. I agree it is probably a small target list, by they are really well done and a surfer looking for an art piece for the house might get stoked ;-)
Rob
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We went to SFMOMA today to see two current exhibits. I highly recommend both of them.
One is the artist Mark Bradford, who does the most gorgeous intricate textured collages/paintings:
This is a new artist for me, and I'm thrilled that SFMOMA introduced me to his amazing work.
The other exhibit is RINEKE DIJKSTRA A Retrospective
Large scale color photographs and several videos
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2012 - 12:32pm PT
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Anyone else got some new work?
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paul roehl
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california
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Jun 19, 2012 - 12:44pm PT
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paulroehl.com
This one is fairly new (about a month old) and is somewhat on topic.
Thanks Nita... The website is paulroehl.com.
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nita
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chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Paul, I love your art work... wish i had some extra money to buy some of your art...(-;...just dreaming.
How big is the panel? ....and can you- *please put a link to your website under your picture..Thanks..
Edit..Paul, it didn't highlight...so here it is. http://www.paulroehl.com/gallery.html
Dang.. Beautiful Art!!!
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Placerville, California
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Jun 19, 2012 - 01:55pm PT
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.the void be art
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tiki-jer
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Jun 20, 2012 - 09:46am PT
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Alright Justin.....glad to see you're active again!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2012 - 12:38pm PT
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How's it going Gerry? Any upcoming shows? Hopefully you've been getting some stone in your hands lately.
Timid, that nutcracker is too funny.
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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Jun 20, 2012 - 01:02pm PT
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Nice detail Ger!
You getting out on the rock at all Justin? Glad to see you're painting.
Sure wish I could squeeze in some painting time, but I could resurrect the doodle thread with some "work". :)
Thanks for sharing everyone!
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Jun 20, 2012 - 01:07pm PT
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Some of my recent oil paintings.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2012 - 02:15pm PT
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Nate, I have been feeling better as of late and have done a little climbing. Not as much as I'd like but I'll take what I can get. Hopefully you aren't to busy with work and have done some climbing too. Let's see them doodles.
Nice bc and Paul and Ger.
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tiki-jer
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Wow BC.......very nice work!!
Hey Thanks Nate and Justin. Not much stone lately. Real busy.
Tried to get out for this weekend but commitments are first and play second. Still have to pick up my shoes from Barry!!
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Denial
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phylp
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Millbrae, CA
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Jun 20, 2012 - 10:04pm PT
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Everyone's new work is wonderful!
You know that feeling you get when you go to an area that has climbing near by but for whatever reason you can't get on the rock? I, and I'm sure a lot of you, get that same feeling when I'm travelling and can't get to a local art museum. I've been here in the DC area for four days and haven't had time for any art. My nieces just have no interest. And the time with them is too precious to do both.
So, I am jonesing for my art fix.
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CO
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Jun 20, 2012 - 10:56pm PT
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BC, Your paintings are awesome!!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2012 - 11:12pm PT
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Good luck Phylp. If you can sneak away to the Smithsonian art museum it's a good one. The Korean war memorial is some of the coolest sculptures I've ever seen. Have fun and hopefully we get to see some pictures of art that you got to see. Laters.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2012 - 05:45pm PT
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What's going on Dwain? You healing up?
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Keith Leaman
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Seattle
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Jul 19, 2012 - 05:55pm PT
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I've been working on very large projects for many years (a few years ago I completed a 4,000 sq ft ceiling mural of clouds for the Jones Museum of Archaeology in Moundville, AL). So these small plein-air quick oil sketches are an enjoyable departure.Here's my friend Jon (Anthropologist, musician, artist etc...) painting at one of my favorite bouldering areas in So Cal.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2012 - 05:56pm PT
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That sucks, but hopefully the MRI shows good news. Let's do some tollhouse this winter if you're around.
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Keith Leaman
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Seattle
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Jul 19, 2012 - 06:06pm PT
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Cosmic-
Have you tried Japan drier with the oils? Small amounts are recommended, but I use it liberally, so paintings dry in a few hours. Acrylics are my usual medium too, especially for murals, used with an extender.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2012 - 06:08pm PT
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Yeah that sounds good, We'll figure it out on December 22nd. Good luck next week.
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phylp
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Millbrae, CA
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Keith, I've often wondered which of the "well known" artists of times past might have painted with acrylics if they had been available.
I've always thought Van Gogh. I've heard him described as a colorist but I've never agreed with that description.. Though I love his work, it's not for his use of color. Much of it gets muddy and I'm not sure that was his intent. Given the way he worked, I wonder if it's just the result of painting too fast with the oils of his time.
Another one who comes to mind is Turner.
Anybody have an opinion?
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2012 - 10:03pm PT
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I would agree that color wasn't Van Gogh's specialty. His brush marks and the texture and movement that resulted from it is what made him special. One thing about his color was it wasn't realistic, it was stylized and in this way maybe he can be seen as a colorist.
I do think Van Gogh would have loved acrylics, because his paintings were heavily layered and you could tell he worked fast.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Aug 14, 2012 - 12:25pm PT
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Hey man, whatcha doin'?
Uh....nuthin', just...trippin' ballz!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Aug 14, 2012 - 12:25pm PT
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2 dimension imagination
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Aug 14, 2012 - 12:50pm PT
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Survival: Capitol Reef?
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Aug 14, 2012 - 09:46pm PT
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Finished this one just about a year ago.... between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay. It's 4x6 feet.
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matisse
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Aug 14, 2012 - 10:20pm PT
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Paul your stuff is beautiful
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Aug 14, 2012 - 10:42pm PT
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I agree!! Truly Classic.
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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Aug 14, 2012 - 11:11pm PT
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One of my favorite local artists from Pasadena is Aaron Waugh. I have the following 3 prints framed in my home-
and my favorite is Untitled but I like calling it Sweet Soul
Here are a few others
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2012 - 10:56am PT
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Randisi, who did the window and curtain paintings and is the one with the milky way a painting as well? Cool stuff.
Paul agree with the rest and appreciate you posting them.
Here's some digital work of mine from a few years ago.
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Mtnmun
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Top of the Mountain Mun
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Aug 24, 2012 - 11:12am PT
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"Monika" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2012 - 11:37am PT
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Mntmun, that is amazing. I think it would be cool if we all got together and organized an event of artists of supertopo. Anyone else think so?
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Aug 24, 2012 - 06:50pm PT
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It would be cool, but it would probably have to be a virtual event, wouln't it? We're spread out all over the place.
I paint as a "hobby" although I hate that word for it. Haven't painted in a long time due to time contraints but have strongly felt the need to paint the past month. I've started on a landscape, here is a segment of the work in progress:
The frustration is seeing that it's mediocre, but knowing I just have to work through a half dozen mediocre pieces until I get some semblance of skill back, after such a long time away. Additional frustration of thinking I probably don't have the time to work consistently.
Regardless of the product, it's so mesmerizing to be painting again. There's no feeling like it. It's almost as good as being in the zone on a route.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Aug 24, 2012 - 09:59pm PT
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Regardless of the product, it's so mesmerizing to be painting again. There's no feeling like it. It's almost as good as being in the zone on a route.
Aye, I understand the feeling, though just for a minute or two of drawing or doodling squeezed into everything else in life. (So I understand the frustration as well.)
Thanks for sharing the work in progress, and I'm intrigued by your second digital piece, TJI. Love the diversity of the artwork shared by the artists of ST.
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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Aug 24, 2012 - 10:06pm PT
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Neato.
Give us some credits/links, Randisi.
Never seen the simple Goya piece - I like it.
And Wyeth's work is just so good I could eat it, although a Thiebaud would likely taste better.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Aug 24, 2012 - 10:39pm PT
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Quikie comp for a proposed video"Climbing" game for Sega or Nintendo BITD when things were 16 bit or 32 bit.
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Aug 24, 2012 - 10:48pm PT
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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Aug 24, 2012 - 10:55pm PT
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TJI, what programs do you use?
NateD.....I always love your doodles!
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
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What's up Gerry? That was done with photoshop. Let's do some climbing.
Randisi, liking all those pieces of art.
Phylp, cool to see your in progress work.
Nate please do some more doodling at work, cause I'm really liking that dome/ landscape.
Tyeary and ger very good looking rocks :-)
Is that your art tyeary?
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Aug 25, 2012 - 12:28am PT
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Justin! Got to schedule some stuff out still.....work has kept me from fun all summer bro....Tollhouse perchance?
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Mtnmun
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Top of the Mountain Mun
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Aug 25, 2012 - 01:28am PT
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Bullwinkle told me he was contemplating a book of climber art, perhaps we can do a show around the final product if he decides to move forward with it. There is a lot of talent here.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Aug 25, 2012 - 01:47am PT
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Aug 25, 2012 - 12:33pm PT
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too much! that's some serious creativity...
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Aug 25, 2012 - 04:48pm PT
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Awesomeness is upon this thread.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Aug 27, 2012 - 10:37pm PT
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Chiemsee?
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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Aug 27, 2012 - 11:15pm PT
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Sorry photo manipulation is not ART!
What kinda"Cid" you on !???????
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Aug 28, 2012 - 06:57am PT
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Donald Flather
Lawren S. Harris
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
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Aug 28, 2012 - 10:54am PT
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It's a new batch of "White Lightening." What else could it be for silly's sake?
I apologize if my "art" is not "real."
Otherwise, please piss up an old goldline.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Aug 28, 2012 - 12:46pm PT
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easy Mouse, I think Tiki was refering to Cosmic's contribution up-thread.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2012 - 01:36pm PT
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The great debate of what is real art:-) Many believe landscape paintings aren't art, that they are decorations with no artistic merit, because they lack meaning. I disagree with this thought and with Tiki's too. Photography is art, photomanipulation is art, at least in my view, but some people disagree. Art is the expression of one's self (or thoughts) through their meduim of choice.
Tiki, Tollhouse isn't in season, how about some Shuteye?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Aug 29, 2012 - 12:08am PT
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Sorry photo manipulation is not ART!
sez you.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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Aug 29, 2012 - 10:13am PT
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TJI.....turning a photo RED is considered ART?
Cosmic's photomanipulation is art and that kind has a long standing tradition here on the Stand.
So Mouse....should I piss up your Goldline or mine?
I was being facetious BTW....lighten up!
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can't say
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Aug 29, 2012 - 10:42am PT
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my bedroom door
artwork by Mike Cedeno
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2012 - 11:10am PT
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Yeah tiki some may consider it art. Definitely not a strong piece in my mind, extreme minimalist:-) But I do consider photograpy art and it is a photo. Lucky I am no art critic though, because then I'd love paintings of Campbell soup cans and Marilyn Monroe painted over and over in different colors.
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Mtnmun
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Top of the Mountain Mun
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Aug 29, 2012 - 11:12am PT
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"Art is what ever you can get away with". Andy Warhol
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Aug 29, 2012 - 03:43pm PT
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Did I or anyone else ever throw in this crosslink to another relevant discussion here on ST?
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1790709/Masterpiece
Yeah TJI, I can't imagine anything much more excruciating than being an art critic.
Ger - go climbing SOON! According to Warhol's definition, climbing is most definitely ART.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2012 - 03:58pm PT
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Missed that the first time Nate, but some good discussion in there. Funny you presented Duchamp, cause I was thinking of his toilets too.
And Climbing is performance art.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2012 - 04:18pm PT
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I mentioned Alex Grey already, but here's some of my favorites
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mouse from merced
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Aug 29, 2012 - 04:40pm PT
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Oh. I'm very sorry about that, if it's the case. I have only gotten to the point in my computer edumacation that I just didn't think of it as "old hat, done that."
I have thought this over enough to say what I think. It is tough to be original in anything. Time, effort, cost of materials all go into art. Some art is less exhausting in these respects than others. There is a Cain and Abel effect among art guys who work, work, work, and art guys who simply need to go click, click, click, apparently.
Take that away and discuss it. I'd just like to see more art, by whatever definition.
"Pulchritude wins out every time over landscapes."--Peter Paul Reubens
Guido is THE MAN!
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phylp
Trad climber
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Aug 29, 2012 - 08:56pm PT
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This Just In - I LOVE that Alex Grey stuff. Thanks! Phyl
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2012 - 10:21pm PT
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Glad you like those Phylp, you're welcome.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
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Aug 30, 2012 - 10:35am PT
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Tami with the punchline! Guffaw!!I imagined the sound of a vaudville-like snare drum........A 'rimshot' if you will......and nearly spit my coffee onto the screen! Thanks Tami!
And TJI.....I always liked his stuff too!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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If "sorry photo manipulation is not art" then, by the same definition, great photo manipulation is definitely not art either.
But I disagree enthusiastically.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Some non-art for TJI.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mea culpa. As close to painting as I have seen.
No enhancement.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Like that back-drop. Pipes & all.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Thanks Mouse. The street art in Albuquerque is world class, no kidding. It's everywhere. You don't appreciate so much until you're in cities where there isn't much.
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Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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survival
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This Just In,
One of my favorite threads in a long time bro, at least as far as the OT stuff. THANKS!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, ...here's, some painting images... :)
a few are not done yet... and some are family gifts, so not sure if i should post them?
but this one is okay, the one that it was for, DID share it here, already:
here is one more, too...
think they wouldn't mind if it was shown...
EDIT:
(better cover it a bit, just in case someone
recognizes them) :)
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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I like them, Neebs. Both have a very beautiful aura, strong enough to shine through art twice removed (a computer picture of a picture of a real painting).
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, phylp... thank you so much...
since you liked those, i believe it is okay to share this one, too... :)
this was more a personal, etc, so out of respect, i covered it, since i do not know
who may use pictures vastly, on the net, :O
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, .... two more for now...
these have been shared here, and i know it is okay, :)
:)
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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Pierre Gonnord. Insane oil work
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all...
found another bit of art to share...
the kind of stuff my mom and i love to see... :)
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Just read about this painting in a book, took a look and saw this thread.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"Insane." Snowhazed, the whiskers are so cool! Nice 'un.
Here's Merced's downtown theater complex, the Mainplace, and they built the murals on one corner of the building at 18th and K. One side of the cr. is metallic mural, the other is painted tiles with Yosemite and the San Jaoquin as the subjects. I'm crediting Dakota, the artist, a weird guy, to be sure.
The El Cap mural features a Yosemite Indian facing the viewer and trying to get though the "pane" between them. Even the "rotten log" features in the work.
Survival, you have some good stuff there. thx
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2012 - 02:27pm PT
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Thanks Survival, but this thread is good because all the added work from everyone, one of my favorites as well. Love that work you added.
Snow- that is perfect. A funny story, when I was in nude drawing classes we would have thirty minutes to draw a realistic representation of the model. Now it takes me about a hour to get semi-realistic representation, while the student next to me was always done in five minutes and his work was always perfect. Some people just have the natural gift of being able to produce exactly what they see, with little to no effort. The best part was all he wanted to be was a comic book artist and could care less about fine art. Our professor would get irritated when she saw him reading a comic book when he was supposed to be drawing. At first she would walk over to him ready to lay into him, but what could she do when she saw his work was always spot on?
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neebee
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hey there say, tobia..
wow, really neat find, there....
thanks for sharing... sometimes old books, DO have the best old finds!
(well, don't know if your book was an old version, etc)
but wow, the things we can find,as to art...
:)
thanks for all the shares...
loved to see all the murials...
could not post a lot last night, etc... was up too late...
say, my aunt that died from falling through the ice at her pond:
well--
she did a vast majority of the art, exhibits, etc, and not sure what else? in the cleveland museum of natural history.... :)
her name was ellen walters...
:)
our family just lovessssssssssssss art, :)
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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Snowhazed...
Pierre Gonnord is NOT a painter. He's a French photographer based in Madrid.
http://foco.me/gonnord/
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Neebee,
I didn't see it in a book; but read about in the book The Final Leap by John Bateson. The description and the Greek mythology behind it inspired me to find it. Icarus's feet are flailing about in the right end corner, most people never see them (and that is the fact that made me look at it).
BTY, I like the fellow in the top hat.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, thanks tobia!
for all the extra info on the pic you posted...
oh my, i LOOKED for him falling, but should have look better, or enlarged it, i will go take a second look...
aw, thanks:
say, the ol' fellow in the top hat, :)
yep, that's ol' doug--in his elemant... :)
the taco would not be complete without him being
still here in some way... :)
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Saul Steinburg's doodles and drawings are awesome.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2012 - 09:58am PT
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Good to see Beksinski back on here. Definitely a unique artist. Nate that second one is awesome. Keep them coming.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2012 - 10:19am PT
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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I became interested in Inuit culture and art after climibng in Alaska. Here is the latest piece of art that I added to my collection, a snowy owl inua mask.
All animals are believed to be the reincarnation of humans. Here, the snowy owl symbolically reveals its human spirit.
Larry Ahvakana
Red Cedar, Yellow Cedar, Acrylic
21"h x 34"w x 7.50"d
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Wow!! To both those above! TFPU.
Sierra, that is a pretty big piece!
That tat rawks! The lighting adds to it......Wonder what it looks like outdoors?
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2012 - 01:37pm PT
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H.R. Giger
The last piece deals with death and it's interesting to see his interpretation compared to Alex Grey's upthread.
Edit: Mouse- :-)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 14, 2012 - 02:04pm PT
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tji, this:::thread:::is:::so:::alarming:::and:::those:::are:::some:::really:::alarming:::nightmares.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Sep 17, 2012 - 02:46pm PT
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Getting ready for Open Studios Santa Cruz in Oct.
A real mess right now, but much fun!
Thanks for asking Phylp it's http://www.ccscc.org/
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Sep 17, 2012 - 03:06pm PT
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Paul, post a link for us for the open studios! Phyl
Thanks, Paul!
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Sep 17, 2012 - 11:00pm PT
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Cosmic, That is Giger's stuff.....I have that album too somewheres.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 17, 2012 - 11:09pm PT
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Cosmic that is giger, lol. Missed that earlier, hope your doing good. Giger also did art that the aliens in Alien were created after.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Sep 17, 2012 - 11:29pm PT
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Cosmic, you hang in there you tough ol' bird!
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Sep 18, 2012 - 01:00pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 19, 2012 - 08:49pm PT
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hey there say, found TWO pics, about 8? years ago... prints ... very nice... they were by robert wood.. FINALLY since i am doing art, now, after 20 years or so--i looked THIS GUY up, as well as a few other folks, with names on certain prints, that i liked...
not the usually folks we see now...
well, this guy:
After emigrating from England in 1910, he began his American career and for more than sixty years he criss-crossed the American Continent, from Maine to California in search of landscape subjects.
and, this guy was:
active in the art colonies of San Antonio, Texas in the 1930s,[3] Monterey, California in the 1940s and Laguna Beach in the 1950s.[
and:
He was a popular exhibitor at the Laguna Art Festival and a Life Member of the Laguna Art Association.[7] Wood was represented by galleries in Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Cleveland.[8]
so perhaps some of you folks in calif area, may have at one time heard of him... or seen his work...
Wood's work was widely published by a number of publishers. The most prolific publisher of Wood's work was Donald Bonnist's Donald Art Company which distributed more than one-million copies of "October Morn," Wood's most popular print in less than two years. Wood was at the peak of his fame in the 1950s through 1970s when his scenes of the Catskill Mountains in New York, the California coast, the Grand Tetons, the Rocky Mountains, the Texas Hill Country and the Cascades were most popular. His popularity made him a household name in America. Millions of his reproductions were printed in large editions by a number of publishers and titles like "Autumn Bronze," "Early Spring." "Pine & Birch," "Texas Spring," and "The Old Mill" are found in homes across North America.[5]
[edit] Studio Locations
i will put a link to yahoo images... very many nice paintings there...
sad thing is when you see them as prints, the painting affect fades
from the minds of folks, as the prints fade--but the art qualilty, you can tell was very heart-felt, as to the GREAT OUT DOORS...
HIS wife and him, had a place in bishop, twice, even...
Wood died in Bishop at the age of eighty-nine, just a month before a large retrospective exhibition was mounted at the Morseburg Galleries in Los Angeles, by Howard Morseburg and the Newport Beach gallery owner Raymond Hagen
Wood was an extremely facile painter and his artistic production was substantial, certainly in excess of 5,000 completed works. Wood's work is sold at galleries specializing in historic American Art and is sold frequently at auction, with his auction record in excess of $40,000
Quote Here
you know, i never would have known that, about these two simple, but very nice painting-prints... :)
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=slv8-msgr&va=robert+william+wood%2C+artist
http://www.robertwood.net/california.html
THERE IS a very nice GALLERY at the above link^
Through the turbulent 1960's, Wood's fame grew and his paintings brought higher prices, some selling in excess of five thousand dollars. At the age of eighty, the American Express Company commissioned him to paint a series of six works to be reproduced as limited edition serigraphs for their Cardholders. Each print depicted one of the National Parks, subjects that were well known to Robert Wood.
check it out... very nice...
biograph is very interesting too, as to ALL his travels...
kind of like the ol' dirtbag climbers, at times, when he was not married, for a spell...
(did not share about the trial in england where he was aquitted--i think this was the same robert wood, artist)
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2012 - 09:50pm PT
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Neebee that is a great gallery, liked all the California places and really liked the desert paintings from CA and Arizona. Thanks.
Mtnmun- love the way you paint water.
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Gary
Social climber
Monza by the streetlight
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Lately I've spent some time with Raphael's Madonna and Child with Book. The computer won't do justice to it, of course. Especially with the color. It is amazingly beautiful. Anybody in the Pasadena area should stop into the Norton Simon.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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The Norton Simon is one of my favorite museums. I like the scale and the aura of it. My husband and I are planning an art and wine trip down So Cal way in December - we'll surely stop in there again. Thanks for posting the photo.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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mine idea of the ultimate expression.
someone so confident in
their undoing recognizes the
void as their ultimate stroke;
the silence as their loudest shout.
death as their immature life.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Our Fourth Hop-Op Year.
The future is not ours to see.
Maybe fifty-three?
I heard Seldom Seen Slim
Came to the very first one.
Hasn't been seen since.
We'd like to see you
Looking at us watching you
Buying up our art.
Consider this your grave invitation.
Seriously. Yer gonna die if you miss this!!!
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Gary
Social climber
Monza by the streetlight
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The Norton Simon is one of my favorite museums. I like the scale and the aura of it. My husband and I are planning an art and wine trip down So Cal way in December - we'll surely stop in there again. Thanks for posting the photo.
phylp, Dec. 7 they will be exhibiting a Van Gogh self-portrait on loan from the national gallery.
When we're in town, it's our Friday date night, going on the spotlight tours.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Gary, thanks for the heads up. We'll be there more towards the end of the month but it looks like that portrait will be in residence there for a few months. :)
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 11, 2012 - 08:46pm PT
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Art hit of the day:
The hubby and I made a quick trip down to Santa Cruz today to see the "preview" show for the Santa Cruz Open Studios at the Santa Cruz Art League building. As is the case with most regional or city Art Leagues, there was a big range in the quality of work. Our very own Paul Roehl had one of his small landscapes hung, and his stuff is at the top of the quality scale. I was happy for him to see the red dot on the tag.
It was a drizzly dreary day down there today, but we made time to stop before art for some yummy Thai food and after art at Mission Creamery for a delicioso ice cream cone...
Phyl
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spectreman
Trad climber
CO
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Oct 11, 2012 - 10:31pm PT
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Oct 12, 2012 - 11:33am PT
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Nice, spectre
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 12, 2012 - 12:05pm PT
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hey there say, phylp... thanks for the santa cruz share!
and--the weather report, :)
sure do miss it, there...
not sure if i shared this one yet, (i may have in 'work in progress' type way, but i FINally got to share it on the
facebook--it was a gift for my buddies, so did not want them to see it, 'til they got it in the mail... took a long time to get it to them, as
it is about nine months later, :))
the horse died on new years eve/day, :(
say, is it okay to share to art images of famous art
that we find on the image searches...
i have seen some nice stuff to share, but am not sure
it seems like it is okay--SINCE they are on a:
collection of imagaes link????
or do we just share a link to them... ?
usually i just share a link, then, you go through them all...
and see what you like, :)
thanks, :)
edit:
wow, spectreman... love that lake-work!
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Oct 12, 2012 - 01:40pm PT
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neebs,
Share away, link, or attached images.
Everybody's doing it... :)
And that's a special painting.
Some interesting photographic works - "paper mountains" by Brendan Austin:
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 12, 2012 - 02:46pm PT
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Those paper mountains are pretty cool, Nate. I never cease to be amazed at what people invent.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Oct 13, 2012 - 07:28pm PT
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Cool stuff Nate, and thanks for the share.....Is it the same artist that did the Mountain Ridges out of books? I think you might have shared that up-thread??
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Oct 13, 2012 - 11:14pm PT
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Different artist, Tiki.
Seen anything inspiring lately?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 13, 2012 - 11:50pm PT
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hey there say, nate.... aw, thank you so much....
thank you for the share, as well, and the 'what to do'...
tomorrow night, i will try to share a few old-time art, that i thought
seemed very nice and a bit different in some ways...
got stuff to catch up on, had teh granddaugher here
late last night, all night, and all day...
hard to see all the pics and post, so i have to find the best times,
these days...
*too many flahsy ad-ons on the internet slow everything down, :))
yet, our ol' minds wants to speed ahead and SEE all this neat stuff here and share it as well... :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 14, 2012 - 12:01am PT
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hey there say, well, that's it for now...
really quick though, before 'art type art'... i will share this
mirrow thing... mirrors made for nice art-shares, too,
though this is a photo... (got a few more, but just need one
to get the idea across)...
and then, taking cloud patterns and turning them into a face-on picture
makes neat art too, :))
i just remembered, too, i have finally finished ONE of the blue herons... not sure if i can post it now... (time issue) (these two pics here, were
already uploaded here at taco)...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 14, 2012 - 12:04am PT
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hey there say, ohhhh, i just remembered...
i had recently heard about egg tempera, so have tried this some...
here is a robin, and a wood trush...
started in egg, and then added oils...
then finished with some egg tempera...
kind of fun, but tricky mixing and using it... :))
ooops, had forgot to add the pic... :)
was a 'fast draw' on the post, :))
ohmy, tough---cheating, in a way, but here, if used for CARDS, by
CHANGING the light, of course we get this:
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 14, 2012 - 12:19am PT
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hey there say, all...
really got to leave now, for the night, but i forgot about this...
it is DONE... and in someone's home now, :))
*bit of foreground-pine-decoration got into the picture, there
on the bottom left :))
what i really want to get done is my OWN
blue heron painting... not sure what i will do when it is done, though,
it will be very special, :)
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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Oct 16, 2012 - 11:22am PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 20, 2012 - 01:31pm PT
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Nathan Oliveira
You hit one of my favorites, Randisi. The deYoung usually has 1 or 2 of his works hanging and I always visit them when I'm up there. And of course the Oakland Museum has some wonderful examples of his work too.
And he's still working!
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Oct 20, 2012 - 03:40pm PT
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[photoid=269205]
This is the last weekend of open studios in Santa Cruz. This painting is 3' x 6' of the Little Sur River Beach. Thanks Phylp for the mention up thread ... very much appreciated.
Paul
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 21, 2012 - 12:06am PT
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^^^ OMG! I somehow missed that news! Or more likely I heard it and forgot it. Well, if I'm lucky enough to live to 82, I'll feel like I had a good run.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Oct 21, 2012 - 02:02am PT
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Neat project TGT - thanks for sharing the link.
And stunning beach, Paul.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 23, 2012 - 05:14pm PT
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Here is the finished version of the WIP I posted above. Not completely satisfied with it but it's a start:
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 23, 2012 - 05:16pm PT
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Here is the second one of this new series:
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 23, 2012 - 05:17pm PT
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And here is the third of the series:
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brotherbbock
Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Oct 23, 2012 - 05:17pm PT
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^^^^^^^^LAME!!!!!
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Oct 23, 2012 - 05:35pm PT
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Phylp - those are really fine compositions - reminds me a bit of Clifford Still (sp?) He has a room filled with huge works at the SFmoma. Beautiful.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Oct 23, 2012 - 07:55pm PT
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Phylp, I really like "Thin Pink Line"
Reminds me of road trips in some big sky country.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 23, 2012 - 08:03pm PT
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^^ Thanks for the kind words of encouragement, both of you.
I work my landscapes from photos that I take. All of the above were based on photos taken on the east side, near Crowley Lake. But I modify the composition - and of course the color is not realistic!!
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squishy
Mountain climber
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Oct 23, 2012 - 08:53pm PT
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Oct 23, 2012 - 09:38pm PT
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I like Banksy's stuff too Squishy.....thanks for sharing!!
Always liked the fastfood caveman!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 24, 2012 - 05:33am PT
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Phylyp, those are worth thousands, word-wise one. I had a friend who did similar tings, but to a vanishing point, rather than flat and linear, it took you into the far distance.
Here is a piece of thirties art from the N. Geo.
Not-off-topic marmot.
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Oct 24, 2012 - 10:22am PT
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Nice stuff, phylp and Paul. Very nice.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Oct 24, 2012 - 01:24pm PT
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squishy
Mountain climber
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Oct 24, 2012 - 01:27pm PT
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I stole pieces of Banksy this week for some FPV video logos...they just seem to fit...
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2012 - 02:01pm PT
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Glad to see your stuff phylp. It does remind me of the Eastside open landscapes.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Oct 24, 2012 - 10:20pm PT
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(Bad Photo)This is a piece that was in a past show entitled: Foot Fetish. It was done on Gold Leaf and portrays the act of Chinese Foot Binding.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Oct 24, 2012 - 11:55pm PT
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"The Tahoe Stage" 68"x68" Oil on Canvas
My latest painting from the studio in the forest.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 25, 2012 - 12:16am PT
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hey there say, wow, mtnmun... thanks for sharing, hot off the press...
say, all, i just learned about his guy...
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=slv8-msgr&va=joaquin+sorolla+artist
i love what he does with white, sunlight and all that...
(said he did not like doing portraits as much, as it limited his
creativity in this 'sunlight' realm)...
right now, i am working on honing portraits etc, and doing things to
say 'thanks' to folks, in special ways...
here is a link, more of--who he was...
also, TWO of his painting, DOWN as to other light, became very
world-famous, in a whole new way...
(in the article, one as to a scientist with bunson-burner, and the other,
concerning children of valencia and the polio epidemic there)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla
but i like doing landscapes, trees, birds, and a few other outdoors with shadows, or night... i WANT to try the light, and the whiteness, i really
love that, just never got a chance to...
i have many picture that i too with CAMERA of what i love to see and do, so somedayyyyyyyyyyyyy,...
but--well, this guy has given me a few lessons, just by observation...
*will try to upload a painting example of his, soon...
there, say, it took twice, but i got it here, :))
check out the links that show the images...
really nice portrait of an older man... ?fisherman? not sure...
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Oct 25, 2012 - 02:45am PT
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Yay for more originals by the artists of ST!
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Oct 25, 2012 - 04:35am PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 25, 2012 - 06:19am PT
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hey there say, all...
been working on a quilt, so am back here late, :)
here is my mom's birthday gift...
egg-tempera homemade, on clip-board, for want of
better board to put it on ...
this 'brand of wood' is supposed to be good for it, and
it sure did take well to it, with homemade
glue and babypowder gesso...
(will last long enough for my mom--still needs
about 6 months to 'cure' so they say...
usually i add oil paint after, on the few that i did,
but this looked nice without it, though not so detailed...
need to find a way to get the clipboard metal off, :))
first, :))
and here is a bird for her, meadow lark, on picture frame board,
need to get the frame back on it...
egg-tempera too, didn't add oil paint this time, either, though
i DID to the other bird paintings that i did of the robin, and the
woodthrush...
:)
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Oct 25, 2012 - 10:58am PT
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Mtnmun, that is a large piece!
You have a very cool and unique style, love it!
Paul, I wish I had the time to study and learn from you.
Your work is fantastic and something to strive for.
You are truly a master.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Oct 25, 2012 - 12:48pm PT
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The thread that keeps on giving.
Neebs,
Don't remove the metal clip, it's very cool and novel as is, IMO.
Tiki,
You should do a companion piece to the bound foot art above, with a modern climber and bouldering slippers. JK ;-)
Have you done any other pieces on gold leaf? Seems fun.
Phylp,
What are the sizes of your paintings? Love the road in thin yellow line. Looks dimensional in your photo. I did a painting in college, or maybe high school, I forget, with a hard edged graphic road arced right over a painterly mountain I hiked many times in my youth. It was Mt. Olympus, which looms above Salt Lake City in the Wasatch Front. It's one of those interesting rugged peaks that is so close to suburbia that you can be sitting on top, in a designated wilderness area, and yet hear people mowing their lawns way down below.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 25, 2012 - 01:58pm PT
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Nate,
22x28, 20x24, 18x24
Sizes I had stacked in the back of my closet for the last 10 years!
Phyl
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 27, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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Not mine but bring a smile everytime I look at them.
edit: my feeble pics come nowhere near to capturing the quality of these paintings.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 27, 2012 - 11:09pm PT
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Neebee, your Mom will love them!
Johntp the first one looks like Neebee's style.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 27, 2012 - 11:10pm PT
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And of course the second one is Tami (?)
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 27, 2012 - 11:21pm PT
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First prize goes to phylp.
Tami/neebs, I love these paintings.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 27, 2012 - 11:51pm PT
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Sheesh, jtp...........not sure who did those last two paintings. Looks like the poor sot was in a bad way. Some kind of horrible illness on the brain perhaps ?
Still standing on your head?
DOH!
heeheehee
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 28, 2012 - 12:28am PT
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hey there say, phylp... i just sent it to my mom, today!!!
i put FAKE geranium leaves in the clip of the clipboard, but not enough
to cover the trees above the shed...
say, johntp, wow, oh my! the heron looks so special in the frame, :)
and tami... though i am not a big fan of orange and yellows,
i am of blues and white!!!
i LOVE that blue ice painting of yours...
well, uh, well, yeah, i DO feel very sad for the poor the 'ski-folk'
that went flying to the ol' 'davy jone's locker', so to speak...
but--on a happy note:
i can IMAGINE that he/she, or perhaps a trained trick
ski dog, :) was:
RESCUED!! :)
ever hopeful, i am, when i veiw art, :))
johntp and jody:
not meaning oranges or yellows of photography and fall--
i loved that photo of jody's...
i means, as to paint--just don't quite lean to the oranges
and yellows with any contrast...
do like oranges and brown though, :)
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Nate D
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San Francisco
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Oct 29, 2012 - 05:43pm PT
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Don't know if they can be called art, but here are several intentionally loose hand drawn logos I've done recently at work. Nice to get off the computer as much as possible.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Oct 29, 2012 - 11:17pm PT
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Nate, those are awesome! I do regard good design as I do Art!
Good to see you off that illuminated square box thingy!!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 31, 2012 - 12:14pm PT
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Really nice, Nate!
BTW, this just in and I are conspiring to do an art day at SFMOMA some weekend in January to see the Jasper Johns and Jay DeFeo.
Hoping to see Tiki-Jer drive up with him.
T-J and TJI, Maybe you 2 guys could drive up Saturday morning, we could do the Museum in the afternoon, find you a place to crash over Saturday night, and then all go to PGSF Sunday morning?
Paul R, would you come up for this?
Anyway when a plan for the out-of-towners comes together we'll post it...
Phyl
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Oct 31, 2012 - 09:37pm PT
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Count me in!
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peterbeal
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Thanks for such a cool thread. I wish I had seen it earlier. There is a lot of talent out there!
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Welcome Peter! If you have a website for your work, feel free to share a link, or post up some more images.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Today we went up to the de Young to see the works on display from the William S. Paley collection.
Here are a few of my favorites:
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Another:
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Another:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Classics, Phylp.
Neato, Reilly. Artist?
Let's see more, John!
An artist I stumbled across just now, with whom I was unfamiliar. Reminds me of Ed Ruscha, but more comical and cynical.
Wayne White:
Actually, Ruscha deserves some images in this thread.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Mouse! I like the Eyes of the Tigers beach towel!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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TY, Phylyp. It was inspeyered, yes?
I am not sure how to respond to the sloganeering photos. Lot of room to play thee.
I'd like to see Lovers Leap covered by wilted words like snow...
I'd best take off for the poetry thread, huh?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 12, 2012 - 07:59am PT
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Manana.
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BillO
Trad climber
Yachats, OR
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Nov 13, 2012 - 05:12pm PT
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this just in
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2012 - 06:01pm PT
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BillO, is that a painting or photoshop image? Whatever it is I really like it, thanks for the image.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 08:00pm PT
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BillO, I'm going to guess a watercolor on very heavy weight watercolor paper? I'm guessing the photo doesn't do justice to the dark area in the lower quarter. I'm seeing hints of what's really there on my screen, but I'm sure not all of it.
Glad you joined our ST art corner!
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Nov 13, 2012 - 10:42pm PT
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Nov 14, 2012 - 01:29am PT
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Channeling Escher perhaps?
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BillO
Trad climber
Yachats, OR
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Nov 15, 2012 - 02:36pm PT
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this just in and phylp. The moon was added to this in photoshop and then I applied the oil painting filter. The dark area in the front is hwy 101. I tweaked the brightness a little bit but for the most part it is pretty close to the original shot. Glad you like I had fun creating it.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 17, 2012 - 02:23pm PT
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http://user.xmission.com/~emailbox/glenda/bierstadt/bierstadt.html
This is strange. The above link is not welcome. It's not very helpful. It sucks, in fact. But it's a great collection. Google "Gallery of Albert Bierstadt paintings Xmission" and have fun.
One wall of A.B. is worth thousands and thousands of words. His "artistic fictions" are as imaginative as any other artist's tender renderings. I like his taking liberty. My cap's off to the old gumball.
I wouldn't follow one of his topos, though, no Fn Way!
I just saw two Bierstadt prints, framed, 24 X 36, at a local antique shop for a low $60 each--frames are a little worn. Sentinel Rock and Yosemite Falls. Ka-ching! At last I can own a Bierstadt. Maybe two.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 21, 2012 - 10:33am PT
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That's an incredibly complex piece, Borut.
I have here a photo of a copy of a photo of a quilt by Linda Gass from 2005. It is of a salt farm.
Happy turkey day, Milpitas!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 21, 2012 - 10:43am PT
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More quilts.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 21, 2012 - 10:52am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 22, 2012 - 12:43pm PT
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this just in
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north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2012 - 01:57pm PT
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Those quilts are awesome, look like paintings. Happy thanksgiving art threaders.
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dave goodwin
climber
carson city, nv
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Nov 22, 2012 - 02:29pm PT
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This is a picture a friend of mine took of our boys climbing. She converted somehow to look like a drawing. Pretty cool.
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dave goodwin
climber
carson city, nv
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Nov 22, 2012 - 02:42pm PT
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Thanks, I have been meaning to ask her how she did it!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I just paid for this book and it was in great shape. Only twenty bucks. My Christmas present to myself.
The book covers writers whose birth years fall between 1749 for Goethe and 1964 for Jonathan Lethem. But the table of contents lists them alphabetically.
Ralph Hodgson/How the Waters Came Down at Lodore.Ralph Hodgson/Self-portrait, man with a pipe.
Jack Kerouac/Slouch Hat.
Somebody give me a writer's name, please, and let's see who did what.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Ok....Walt Whitman.
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MikeL
climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mouse: Sorry, sir. Right out of Walt Whitman, sir.
tiki-jer: (deliberately) Have you in fact got any cheese here at all?
Mouse: Not a scrap, sir. I was deliberately trying to provoke YOU, in fact.
We have this, but WW isn't after TH White nor before Richard Wilbur. I will recommend the White with no hesitation. EVE. oil on canvas/36 x 24
"It's not Eve. It's no White, I'm sure of it."--Maplethorpe
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there all, say...
i JUST got this neat pic for 4 bucks at the thrift store...
it WAS the kind of art i loved to do... WELL when i am not doing
these portraits etc...
i will get back to it, sometime... i NEED to do my
other blue heron, :))
well, i had a hard time reading this guys NAME.. after respelling it
a few times in search on the neat, i got a PROPER guess:
albert bierstadt... ohhh, i love these paintings...
they are large too... i have not done a large, but one day will..
i rekckon it will FEEL like i am GROWING a tree, instead of just reaching over to draw/paint one! :O
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=slv8-msgr&va=A+bierstadt%2C+artist
i will post of pic of what i found, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bierstadt
*mouse, NEAT book FIND...
also, neat quilt shots...
and--oops, took so long to post, i forgot who else...
just a sec or so:
will edit to add the rest :))
OKAY, GOT IT:
dave:
i've had fun seeing how my grandkids and critter photos come out,
as drawings like that... really neat...
i MADE some of them into a color book type thing...
got to get it printed for them, soon, :))
have NOT seen all the new art added on yet... so please, am sorry can't
yet share on what you posted... not being rude... :)
oh--just re-read the notes on him--this was interesting:
Because of Bierstadt's interest in mountain landscapes, Mount Bierstadt and Bierstadt Lake in Colorado are named in his honor. Bierstadt was probably the first European to visit the summit of Mount Evans in 1863, 1.5 miles from Mount Bierstadt.[6] Bierstadt named it Mount Rosa, a reference to both Monte Rosa above Zermatt and, Rosalie Ludlow, his future wife, but the name was changed from Rosalie to Evans in 1895 in honor of Colorado governor John Evans.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Nice score there, neebs.
And those are impressive quilts posted up thread, mouse. I know a talented local quilt artist who teaches workshops and lectures on the art nationally. I'll have to post some of his work when I get a second.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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neebee, If my memory serves me, there were a couple of Albert Bierstadt originals in the Ahwahnee Hotel.
You probably have a print of an original or a copy painted by someone .....either way- it's Beautiful.
If it was an original, it would be worth alotOmoney.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, nita!! wow, thanks for the share--if i ever get there again, i will have to go a'looking, :)
say, well, it is not an original, as i can see the odd board swirls that it is printed on...
it is a good print, the colors seem deep enough...
just sadly noticed that someone HAD it too near a dark board, :(
it has a few tiny holes i had need seen before, though i DID
see a scrap on it...
it is sooooooooooooo neat, i LOVE the tree... i love to do trees that way, so i can really identify with the feel... my mom lovessssssss trees, too...
she'd really love this...
i am so glad i discovered this at the thrift store...
i always go there to find cheap half-off framed stuff to take apart
and USE for framed protection to mail my gift-paintings to:
only cost about 12-14 bucks to mail them then, and the oil does NOT
touche the mailing cardboard...
and THIS picture, i nearly pushed aside, as it was too large for me to use, but:
i PEEKED AT IT, instead, as the tad of tree that saw, CALLED out to me, :))
there see, ol' albert would be happy and blessed to know that i
WAS the fortunate one to FIND his treasure!
you know--there may be a world full of prints, out there, from these old
time artists, but:
EACH first-off-the-easle WAS THERE BABY! :)
thanks again, nita!
so much!!!!! made a lot of fun here! for me tonight!
will tell my mom, later when i call her...
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, nita...
HERE you go... i looked at the lower right corner, to see what it said...
the signature is there, very light, hard to see... in red...
then as you can see on the pic...
here is the copy numbers...
DO ANY OF YOU YOSEMITE FOLKS know what this area is...
it looks like an area i've seen before, BUT:
THE TREE, AND THE RECOKS BENHIND THE TREE throw me off...
*the notes about him, though, DO say that he liked to 'add things'
occasionally for his creatives needs...
:)
i cannot FIND this painting in any of the 'fast poster ads' that seem to
show up, when i look for his art...
i'd like to know the POSSIBLE title... this is very interesting,
having bits, even if copies, of these wonderful old time painters... !!!
hung up by those old brittle wires that are on stuff that we find
from our grandparents atics, :))
other fun stuff:
have one ART that i did not find or buy, just paper copy, easily seen as that:
a copy from TE-Rerioa by gaugan, but it
IS A PAPER copy, FRAMED that my folks had, and let me have...
THEN i have a few local painted things from gargage sales that showed michigan lakes, nice... and some old neat cabin, :))
don't know who the locals were that painted them, though, :))
edit:
say, nita... i just saw this on ebay... looks just like mine, but the
COLORS are bright... i am QUESING that theirs is paper? not hard board, as, they have it under glass...
[quote]http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALBERT-BIERSTADT-YOSEMITE-VALLEY-vintage-large-framed-original-print-/380428409243?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D13534%26meid%3D4001224279668403359%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1080%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D300523240916%26[/quote]
at least now i know that there is another, etc, around, so it MUST have a
title... somewhere in yosemite, i know, but the view with the tree, up close, as i said, throws me off from the 'usual postcard' views, :))
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there all, oh my....
so i got more curious and went around to check my last few thrift store stuff...
DOES anyone KNOW who this is by...??
it IS a paper, that almost feels like a photo quality, under glass...
shines funny, in the pic:
HAS no name, on the print, no printing info, etc, nothing, ANYWHERE...
i tried long ago to solve this...
and--did some searches on stagecoach art...
THIS one has a neat LANTERN that softly glows, as it travels over
cracked dry mud... the KIND i loved to pull out like puzzle pieces,
when i was a kid... :))
i have the robert woods, lithos, but i just now noticed that one is signed and made in canada, and the cardboard is imprinted on back:
#319... the other is 1226 in the lower right hand corner...
then, i just learned that i have a litho of thomas reynolds lamont:
some REALLY neat redish roses (like his yellow rose picture--really BIG)..
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/1593-yellow-roses-by-thomas-renolds-lamont
though he is not as special as the GREATOUTDOORS painters,
who do by far, touch my heart, :)
THEN, a neat one by someone named thompson??: the SEAFARERS...
neat ocean and menfolks pushing out a canoe..
(but not the style that i really like--but it looks neat for the bathroom, like at the beach)
this is fun--for the FIRST TIME, since i learned of these ARTISTS,
I feel LIKE i have stuff from the HEART OF MEN:
and not just a cold machine piece...
love this art thread twice as much now!...
we all KNOW that when we see FRESH now-a-days art, that it is from the art, as well: we can SEE it fresh and live!
so learning more of this old history as to what we find and like, or
even purchase from galleries SURE does make
out 'finds' alive!!!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, nita!! thanks ...i was very certain it was sentinal rock , at FIRST... but then, SEEEEEEEEEEEE, i got my 'bearing off', :))
but still--i love the 'scenic artistic licence' :)
i saw ONLINE, a neat one that he did of the matterhorn... if i can find it again, i will post it...
had those same trees that me and my mom love...
i WONDERRRRRRRRRR if that area that he painted it from really HAD any such trees there, :))
but you know--it does not matter, as, i am not studying 'mapping' by him--just the loveliness, :)
will go look for it, :)
ps:
will LOVE to see her painting...
if i am not online, later, i will see it tomorrow... i got
lots of chores, still, tonight, :)
i sure HOPE someone can find out WHO did that stagecoach...
i love it sooooooo much...
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dittp kudos for mtnmuns new post.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 10, 2012 - 12:13am PT
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There is a nice Thomas Hill hanging in the Yosemite Museum. I forgot the subject. He's a little more realistic than the fantastic which Albert Biers-etc. paints. Yes, I speak in present tense. They died and have been Jack Frost apprenticed ever since in the Valley. They get three months to work and go to Mexico the rest of the year. They miss out on the Dio del Muerto, but WTF.
http://www.allposters.com/-st/Thomas-Hill-Posters_c25201_.htm?aid=85097
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Dec 18, 2012 - 05:43pm PT
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Holton Frames in Emeryville is doing these remarkable frames in the tradition of Arthur Matthews. Really like them and recommend Holton to anybody interested in framing especially landscapes.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Dec 18, 2012 - 07:15pm PT
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Very Nice!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 18, 2012 - 11:19pm PT
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Here is the Yosemite print I landed several days ago. No room to hang it yet.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Dec 18, 2012 - 11:22pm PT
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Some full sized stuff I did years ago. Sorry- can't find the better resolution files.
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this just in
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2012 - 11:25pm PT
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Really enjoy your glass works justthemaid. How much do you sell them for?
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john hansen
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Dec 18, 2012 - 11:26pm PT
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Just the maid,,
That second one made me cry.. very timely.
Thanks
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 19, 2012 - 11:37am PT
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Hey Mouse, the cool thing is that there is a self-portrait of you with camera reflected in your photo! Phyl
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 20, 2012 - 05:16am PT
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I thought you might notice the secondary image. It's where art historians could go crazy though, because it's not me, it's my friend George from upstairs who knows how to use the new camera and is coaching me. He's not very good at teaching, but WTF, it's the short course, just like when I began to climb. This is far safer, though. He's using the camera overnight, since he's a good kid and I trust him with it. He's 25, he's not a kid.
Here's what's going on in Merced. Tomorrow is an ART BENEFIT for the merced Multi-Cultural Art Center, which has lost any funding it had. It is about ten years old, on West Main St. right next to the Cinema Cafe.
The benefit features this fellow RC, a former neighbor of mine, and part-owner of the Partisan Bar. RC's new art/music gig is called Ahwahnichi. He is a blooded member of the band related to Julia Parker.
I was walking along the street the other day, he was talking to friends, and I came up and said hi and mentioned the gig I had seen on a poster. He said yep, he was a blood and that he had just gotten the idea for Ahwahnichi, so it's all a work in progress. We shall see tomorrow night.
It is RC's Incredibly Egotistical Birthday Party and End-of-the-World Celebration.
If anyone in the area's around, please come support the Arts Council tomorrow, N and West Main St., Merced. 9;00 pm.
Ten dollar donation.
http://www.artsmerced.org/exhibits/index.html
And there is another Merced Art Hop coming ip on the 19th of next month, a Saturday...
http://www.artsmerced.org/exhibits/index.html
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 20, 2012 - 09:18am PT
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hey there say, paul, mouse, and justthemaid...
very nice shares... very nice!
thanks for the links!
here is the secret santa that was just opened and shared, so i can share it...
(i had two others, but they are more on a personal note for someone, so won't share them, unless they do, someday)...
here is the this one, from strangedays photo that he shared a ways back...
it is acrylic, this time:
here's a surprise gift for my stamp-fairy to give to her nephew's wife...
(the man recently died, but he got to hold his grandbabe, first)...
it was my way to thank her for all her stamp support for christmas
cards, over the last few years:
and here is lynne's, which she has now, and won't mind if i share:
got some more, in the works...
will take a bit though... after the holiday season...
:)
still want to get to my heron, :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 20, 2012 - 09:43am PT
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hey there all, say, well... got to get back to work around here, :)
here is a few that i found, and wanted to keep around, as i love the style...
two names, i did not get recorded, :(
:)
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Dec 20, 2012 - 10:15am PT
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I agree.. great shares everyone. It's nice this thread has some wings. Keep 'em comin'
@Just In: My prices are all over the board depending on the size and complexity. I don't do full-sized pieces or commission any longer. These days I work small-scale or in miniature and only do shows seasonally. Most run in the $70 - $500 range.
The fairy girl sold for around $1500.00 if I recall. It was unfortunately condemned to a poorly-lit light box - never to see the light of day again... much to my chagrin. It was a battle to get permission to de-install it temporarily to photograph it for my book.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 21, 2012 - 05:57pm PT
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Today we went to the Legion of Honor to see the exhibit "Treasures of the Louvre". Most of the items exhibited were crafted during the reigns of Louis XIV to XVI. The items are indeed treasures, at the intersection of art and craft. The workmanship was the best, as you would expect for items that were all made for the royals of the time.
Snuff boxes were big back then, or maybe they were easy to hide so didn't get confiscated and melted down in the Revolution. Gold ecrusted with diamonds and other precious stones, many with impeccable enameling.
I liked this piece quite a bit. It's walnut with a marble top, and all of the inset panel of the birds and flowers are made from inset stone.
Description reads: low cabinet from a pair with Florentine pietre-dure panels, circa 1765-1170
Made for duc d'Aumont
Joseph Baumhauer (German, active France; died 1772), cabinetmaker
Pietre dure (hardstones, ebony, tortoiseshell, brass, pewter, marble, and gilt-bronze mounts
40 3/16 x 30 5/16 x 19 5/16 inches
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Dec 21, 2012 - 06:17pm PT
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I've been a pretty serious collector of art and antiques for over 30 years:
I've got a house full--mostly 17th-18th century, but I have owned some nice 19th-20th century pieces. I'm particularly fond of Thomas Hill, since he is known for Yosemite images.
I sold my last piece by him 15 years ago- wish I hadn't. Anyway, here are 2 modern pieces--the only two I have by living artist:
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Dec 21, 2012 - 07:17pm PT
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Great stuff everyone, and Happy Artful Holidays!
I ran across this contemporary work recently and was impressed, though I'm sure I'd be even more impressed to see these at full scale, 'cause they are apparently monumental.
Li Huayi
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 21, 2012 - 07:37pm PT
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Those are beautiful, SteveA. Are most of your newer artworks in that photorealist vein?
I took a couple of classes once from a locally based artist, Jim Torlakson, who has often worked that way:
http://www.jamestorlakson.com
He's a wonderful artist, with many works in museum collections, and a wonderful teacher.
Phyl
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Dec 21, 2012 - 09:59pm PT
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[photoid=279746]
Organizing and found two Yosemite sketches. Think I'm going to enlarge the T. Meadows into a 4' x 6'. Much great work on this thread... really enjoy seeing it.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Dec 22, 2012 - 03:37am PT
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If those are the sketches to which you refer, Paul, bravo!
Have you seen any of FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH's sketches? They blow me away, and I like them more than his finished paintings.
Love your exhibition reports, Phylp. I was reminded today for some reason of seeing the Gee's Bend Quilts when they came to the De Young, and I honestly don't think I've ever been more moved by art in a museum. I never would have imagined that specific medium would grab me like it did. Those quilts just seemed so natural and effortless, and yet so stunningly beautiful.
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steveA
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Dec 22, 2012 - 09:03am PT
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Phyl,
The 2 paintings I posted are the only modern works I own. I primarily collect decorative arts of the 17th-18th century. I do like paintings and own quite a few 19th century works.
Here is an English landscape I bought recently by Henry Hillier Parker:
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steveA
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bedford,massachusetts
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Dec 22, 2012 - 09:26am PT
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Some art can fetch a pretty penny!
This piece by John Constable sold last month at Christies for over 35 million bucks!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 22, 2012 - 12:23pm PT
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hey there say, nate d....
wow, i really like that middle one!...
thanks for sharing..
paul, very nice falls!!
and as to steve A and that last share,
i find that really enjoy seeing and reflecting on those
artist that use a lot of DARK in their landscapes...
thats so much for sharing... i kind of gravitate to them a tad more
than the others--those still love the balanced light, one, and
certain speical affects, as well... and even enjoy the even lit,
house, home, portraits, too... :)
so much to see out there and so much for tugging
at the ol' spirit in so many ways...
:)
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Dec 22, 2012 - 12:29pm PT
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Sulamani Temple fresco Bagan, Myanmar
Buddhist Thangka, Tengboche Gomba, Nepal
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Dec 22, 2012 - 02:06pm PT
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Paul. . . LEMBERT DOME!
I LOVE YOUR WORK!
+1
Paul..I'm always blown away by your BEAUTIFUL art work...
When is your next art show?
Neebee, here is the picture of Sentential Rock i was talking about earlier... sorry about the glare.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 22, 2012 - 02:24pm PT
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hey there say, nita! wow, thanks so very much!...
say, they all make me dearly want to paint landscapes again, :)
but i have found this wonderful portrait painting adventure to
be a very dear trail, all its own, and will keep the other fun
stuff on the side... and the bird, i love to paint the birds with
the egg tempura, :))
also, I LOVE seeing vern's stuff!!! very refreshing and
deep-heart-felt 'living photos'...
thank so much nita!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 22, 2012 - 04:11pm PT
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There's a family, here local, who have a very good product to sell, fine olive oils in a variety of "blends" if you will, all with distinctive taste properties, peppery, spicy, etc. 'they market a small bottle for ten bucks. The label is a work of art, turned into what might be termed "artwork" as it sold the bottle this morning at the farmers' market.
Of course, the fact that I was talking with Anastasia the other night aobut her mother's name being Athena, had much to do with it, but the label on the bottle's so well-made and makes it all so appealing, it pretty much sealed the deal. Art for art's sake or art to make a buck. It's a question we've asked for centuries and will keep asking.
If anyone wants to try this olive oil:
http://www.athenasgift.com
Anne, who was selling the oil this morning, said who designed the label, but can't remember who it was. Getting old...
Oh, I wanted to tell everyone who shares here how great it is to see this super stuff you do or appreciate, so, a big thanks.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2012 - 12:48am PT
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Cool stuff everyone. SteveA, nice collection. My Dad is a big traveler and I always have him pick me up some art of whatever country he is in. Tomorrow I'm going to post some of those and the other art on my walls. Till then here's a couple ink drawings I've done.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2012 - 04:32pm PT
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Here's some art from around the world that I'm glad to own.
This final piece is by an artist I went to school with. His name is Jamison Gish and he is a photo realistic painter. This was his first dabble at abstract and is my personal favorite painting.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 23, 2012 - 05:52pm PT
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Very nice collection, Justin! I do like your own work. It seems to me that many, if not most, people love being surrounded by beauty. They build their houses with views of the landscape, they create gardens, they decorate their houses and their bodies - all in an expression of whatever they find beautiful. It really lifts the spirit.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Dec 24, 2012 - 12:39am PT
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There is a wall near my house and the art comes and goes.
I like public art.
Here's something I doodled when I was about 18 years old
And something I created which was installed two years ago
What is art?
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MisterE
Social climber
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Dec 26, 2012 - 10:35am PT
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One of Skip's cloisonne pieces (this one is 2" X 2"):
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jan 10, 2013 - 09:29pm PT
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Today Michael and I went to SFMOMA to see two exhibitions that will be closing in a couple of weeks, Jasper Johns and a Jay deFeo retrospective. It was too much to see in one day. I couldn't make it through the whole deFeo exhibit.
A few words about the Jasper Johns exhibit:
No photography was allowed and I didn't really like any of the postcards they had for sale so I don't have any photos to share.
The exhibit was well curated and I learned quite a bit about Johns' ideas about art, and about how he makes his art. There was a nice chronology as you moved from room to room and got to see themes developed and new ideas emerge. The commentary gave me a new appreciation of his older classic works such as "lands End":
http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/162
which I found out was inspired by the poetry of Hart Crane and by his death by suicide (he jumped off a cruise ship) at age 32.
I have to admit I was a little disappointed not to see any of the big encaustic flags, as those are among my favorites of his. I tend to love anything with encaustic - the textural qualities of it and that soft sheen of. There were a lot of works on paper made using all different kinds of processes.
I really enjoyed some of his fairly recent work, an example of which can be seen here:
http://arrestedmotion.com/2011/06/openings-jasper-johns-matthew-marks/jasper-johns-matthew-marks-am-06/
These are works on paper and are very complex images featuring repetitions of images within images and featuring some wonderful abstract figures that reminded me of some Picassos.
Maybe I'll add some words about the Jay deFeo tomorrow...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 10, 2013 - 10:12pm PT
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That Jasper! Kinda makes me feel short-changed having to look at words describing colors, which in turn can't be photographed because they fade--the purples will bruise, the yellows will run, and the reds will bleed, and the blues blur.
Red + yellow + blue - weird kandy korn =
Thanks for the graciously-worded report and appraisal/appreciation, Phylyp.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Jan 10, 2013 - 10:42pm PT
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Mouse,
Small world - I know Anne, her husband (Paul) and daughter. I'll see
Paul tuesday and will ask him where they got the logo for the oil.
kev
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 10, 2013 - 11:17pm PT
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Hey say it here, kev--
Oil be grateful.
M. vrom Ems
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 10, 2013 - 11:29pm PT
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I gotta say. paul roehl, I love your art. I'm a big fan of plein air and your paintings are beautiful and impressive. I wish I could paint like that and, in fact, am thinking about taking a class. Thanks for the inspiration.
Here are some of the xmas presents I made for my family. (i'm cheap)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 11, 2013 - 11:31am PT
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Fifty cents for a vintage Arizona Highways from 1958, originally only forty cents...
Inflation. Fire up the scanner anyhow.
drlj, nice is too nice a word. Let it all hang out for cheapiosity! Ding dong, ding dong.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jan 11, 2013 - 08:29pm PT
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Jefe - I've loved the time I've spent in art classes. I'd take them all the time if I didn't travel so much.
For me it's not as much what I learn (though I always learn things) but being forced into the discipline of painting more, meeting other artists and seeing their work, and getting good critical feedback from the teacher.
I hope you do it! Phyl
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Jan 11, 2013 - 08:59pm PT
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Jefe, you are right....Paul's work is amazing!! I too wish I could paint like that, So Classic!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2013 - 04:26am PT
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Jan 20, 2013 - 06:26pm PT
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Still working on this painting 40"x72"...
Am now convinced it's just too big... oh well. It's a struggle to make the big ones work, like painting a house... whole lot of space to cover and much more opportunity to mess it up!!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jan 23, 2013 - 05:25pm PT
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It looks good to me, Paul, but only you will know when you are satisfied.
Here's my artwork for the day:
I was going to post this in "Show me what you're building", but if you could taste and smell this you'd probably agree it's a work of art!
:) Phyl
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2013 - 05:27pm PT
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It made me lust for some junk food. My mouth is watering and I'm hungry now, yup art.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Jan 23, 2013 - 05:41pm PT
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Mouse,
So it's from a vase in a museum in Munich. I don't recall the number but I'm sure if you looked around on the web you could find it.
kev
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 23, 2013 - 06:39pm PT
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hey there say.. a few things finally finished and sent off, this early winter:
*oops, fogot to add the bit OF CHAIR, behind
sooze (which would be behind russ, too) that
caused russ's jacket to puff out, :O
AND i have ruth's gift, have to look for it first...
:)
i covered the paintings, since they were family gifts...
and didn't want them shown so public, without such notices on them, :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 23, 2013 - 07:16pm PT
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hey there all, say...
not sure if this is the final... i had to refix her face once, after...
think this is it:
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 23, 2013 - 07:29pm PT
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hey there say, mouse...
i love those from arizona highways? i used to try to draw that way, when i was a kids, 'cause i loved those sooo much... used it for cards, when i was a kid... some of it carried over, to adult, for my designs, but then i got worried it was 'copying' ... course, that is how kids learn to draw, in the first place, :O
learning from what you LIKE and trying it, yourself... :O
say, jefe... i really like that purple one! such neat clever gifts...
paul--keep up the great work, on that large one... i want to some day
do a large one... right now, i have more gifts and my two landscapes to
someday get back to, :))
and--various birds, i want to do, and deer... :))
thanks for all these wonderful shares, folk!
edit:
phyl! oh YES, it IS a work of art...
yum! thnks for the share... :)
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Jan 24, 2013 - 01:56am PT
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Wow neebs, could there be a more giving person!?
Paul - yea, what a big mess. :) 'Course we ain't seeing it at full scale. Still, breathtaking.
Mmmm, pie!
By that definition, I think my wife could fill the Louvre with her work.
Tiki, whatcha working on lately, bro?
TJI, how did I miss seeing your collection from all over the world a few pages back? Thanks for that.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 29, 2013 - 10:24am PT
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Paul, hi and I like that landscape. Is that, could it be, the dome everyone thinks they see everywhere else? It looks inspired by the Mercedes rear wheel housing, oddly.
Friend of mine, Bang Mingo, aka Ben Harris, did these, each @ 6 X 6.
California X 4.
Waterfall person.
(My own titles for these so far untitled works).
There's a story about the first. Last Sat. I was in the Coffee Bandits, where these are hung currently.
I mentioned to a fellow next to me, a photographer, that one "California"
was enough, why did the artist need 4 of them in the painting? They were
redundant, somehow. But what do I know? I'm only a schmo.
And then Ben walks in thru the arch into the room and says "What do you
think of my stuff?" and points to the Waterfall person, which I had not
noticed earlier when I sat down--hadn't had my coffee yet--and
California X 4.
Ben is a "serious" artist, but hasn't produced much lately, due to his
growing business. Which is growing, which is what Bang Mingo is about.
But Ben even has a gallery space rented downtown. We were in it about
three weeks ago. Back alley stuff. I can't even recall distinctly
where it is located, though it's near the Tioga.
I need pictures and you will see.
In the Tioga itself, there is a street-level shop-front just rented out
called Pablo Studio, fronting on Main St. His front window and the view
within. Bears further investigating.
YAY!!!!
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 29, 2013 - 10:41am PT
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This is a duplicate post from another thread, but I'd like to add it to the art thread.
Giving a nod to Grandma (RIP) since she was an early influence on my young muppet brain. She sort of came from the
Bob Ross school of painting, but these are my two favorites she did. Her best and her funniest
This floral won a competition to be on a greeting card:
And her funniest is what I call "Boudoir Victorian Barbie on a Chamberpot". When I was a kid I could never figure out
why that girl was sitting on giant eggs. LOL.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Justthemaid, it's so nice that you have that memory from your Grandmother.
I recently got back from a winter road trip to SoCal. Here is part I - a visit to LACMA, the LA county museum.
LACMA has a diverse collection spread out over 8 buildings, but we spent our time mostly with the European and American collections.
There were two special exhibits going on, both fabulous.
The first was Caravaggio and other artists who were influenced by his style. It was fascinating to see 4-5 painting by different artists of the same biblical story scene, e.g. Judith and Holofernes, placed side by side. One of our favorites was Caravaggio’s “The Denial of St. Peter”.
The other exhibit was a Stanley Kubrick retrospective with space devoted to each of his many films. It was a multimedia presentation with movie clips playing on screens, stills for the movies and production, annotated scripts, and original props. It was a very large exhibit, quite comprehensive and a lot of fun to walk through.
The funniest art piece to us was this one:
It's called "Levitated Mass" and is a just a big boulder set over a sunken walkway. I wonder if any LA locals have done a clandestine bouldering session on it yet?
Part II tomorrow...
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2013 - 12:15am PT
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Thanks for the report phylp. Always good to see the master painters in person, good to see it here too.
And that is funny justthemaid, if she's not sitting on eggs then what is it? Cool you have those personal pieces of your artistic bloodline.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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An unconventional double-portrait of Renoir's wife's cousin Gabrielle Renard, who helped with the family housework and often served as the artist's model, and Claude, called Coco, Renoir, the youngest boy of the artist, in the miniature. there is an implied third image in the mirror being viewed only by Gabrielle. Is this an accident or a visual pun?
Plus de Renoir.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Nice, Mouse!
Here is part II from my winter road trip - we went to the Petersen Auto Museum. I'm in the camp that thinks gorgeous design in any media is art, and these cars embody the combination of beautiful design and impeccable craftmanship.
The last is my favorite - the Bugatti Veyron
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Pretty insane, huh Mouse? I cannot even imagine wanting to spend $1.3 million dollars on a car. If I had that much spare money it would be so wonderful to give it away to people who needed it.
Supertopo artist friends: I spent some time painting today, re-working a recent painting I wasn't happy with. When I stopped I was just filled with this sense that I wanted to spend every day painting. But I can't quite allow myself to do it because I feel I'm not inherently talented enough to justify the "waste" of time. One of my early art teachers said to me "The world doesn't need another painting". She wasn't being cynical; she was a great teacher. What she was saying was that you have to paint for yourself. So I do paint for myself, but it seems like such an indulgence, since I paint as a passion not a way to physically survive (earn a living). I have to get rid of this small amount of residual Catholic guilt thing. Painting, like climbing, is one of the places where I am completely present. If I let myself think of it as meditation time, I'd do more of it. LOL! What a good idea!
Maybe when I am really and truly retired...all I will ever do is climb and paint.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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If ya got the urge.....you gotta create!!!
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Thanks for those introspective thoughts, phylp. I know those feelings well.
Post up a few of your latest Tiki!
Thanks always for the additions to the thread, mouse.
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life is a bivouac
Trad climber
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With a bit of trepidation, I submit this piece of 13 years ago... It's a compilation of places in my mind. 28x38 Acrylic.They include: Ganglia twitches from Utah canyons, a month and a half climbing in Alaska and a fair bit of time I got to spend in Antarctica. So, not from any one place... As I am right handed, I wanted to paint my right hand ungloved as a challenge to myself...
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 8, 2013 - 12:53pm PT
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Cool painting life. Like that perspective.
Phylp, great introspective. I agree it's an outlet to loose yourself in time and void of the everyday thoughts, much like climbing. For me the hardest part is also finding the time and more so just getting started. I paint obsessive for a week and then don't for a month. Good things happen to those who wait right? Another way I always thought of it being similar to climbing is you start with a blank canvas, each step brings you closer to the end and soon enough(maybe long for my process) you are done. When you are at a climb you sometimes get overwhelmed with the whole climb. Focussing on each move and your next step has always helped me fight this overwhelming feeling and I think the same can be said with producing art.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Bivouac! Why the tredpidation? It's a great contribution to the thread - and it's ON TOPIC! Bonus points. I especially like the "feel" of it and the composition. My only complaint is that the belayer should have a glove on that poor cold hand! I'm projecting my own cold aversion here!
Did you model it from one of your climbing photos?
Phyl
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Just In- we posted at exactly the same minute - LOL! Thanks guys for your responses. It's good to have a community.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
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I recognize that style...
It's from McLean's "gnarly" period, which pre-dated the gruesome "red rockfall" series. :O)
Slack-jawed & awed, b'God!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I wish I had art of my own, but it's no longer extant.
Maybe it will return someday.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Ok Nate, here is one approx. 2'x2'. Acrylic and Oils
Bad photo sorry
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Some recent work...
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life is a bivouac
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Hey BC, those are wonderful at capturing the light in both canvases; how long have you been painting?
Really like them...
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Feb 11, 2013 - 04:12pm PT
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Hi life is a bivouac,
I've been painting landscapes in oil for about 10 years.
Just getting to where I tend to keep more than scrape!
Bill
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Feb 11, 2013 - 06:55pm PT
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I have been buying art for years at auction.
I got a rare bit of luck yesterday and managed to buy this early 19th century piece, 24x36, in the original frame, for about $250.
It is signed, but illegible. I spent all-day researching, but to no avail.
Probably Dutch school.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Feb 11, 2013 - 08:34pm PT
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I'll take the liberty of posting the links to Bill's website.
http://billcramerstudio.com/
http://www.billcramerpaintings.com/
I hope you don't mind, Bill.
Bill is one of my favorite plien air painters.
Plus he's a great guy, an awesome father, and a great climber.
edit: new page...check the last one for Bill Cramer's post.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Feb 11, 2013 - 08:51pm PT
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"The Race" Oil on Canvas 68"x72"
"Party Buffalo IV" Oil on Canvas 48"x60"
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:12am PT
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I see an opening here - I see a similarity. Meet Chakra.
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:44am PT
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(thanks Jefe, I suck at promoting my work)
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Feb 12, 2013 - 10:53am PT
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"Coyote Opera" Oil on Canvas 24"x30"
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Mtn, those are top shelf. Pretty cool how you can capture the animal's anatomy without a realistic representation. Thanks.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Feb 12, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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BC and Mtn, I love your work. You guys both paint big!
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phylp
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Millbrae, CA
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Feb 14, 2013 - 12:47pm PT
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On Tuesday we went up to see the special double exhibits at the de Young, "Rembrandt's Century" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring"
The former is a huge exhibit taken mostly from the de Young's own collection. The works were almost all 17th century works on paper, mostly engravings and etchings. Personally, I found the exhibit so massive as to be overwhelming - I wish they had edited a bit the volume of what they showed. It's almost like somebody said "This is a rare opportunity to hand all this stuff - we might as well do it all".
Here was one of my favorites, Rembrandt's The Landscape with Three Trees:
If you look closely, there are a bunch of people and a lot of activity in this piece, but it's the overall composition and light/dark that's so appealing to me.
The other exhibit is "Girl with a Pearl Earring, Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis" Only 35 paintings but all very high quality, on special loan while the Mauritshuis is undergoing a significant expansion of its space.
Of course the Vermeer was breathtaking - the image is so well known I'm not bothering to post it. This is one of the other paintings that we were all especially taken with:
So gorgeous! A timeless image that could have been painted yesterday.
What would an exhibition like this be without some floral still lifes? I thought this one was especially lovely:
Looking at the tag, I was surprised to see that the artist was a woman. It was very unusual in that time for women to be professional artists. We were pleased to learn that her work was quite a commercial success in her lifetime.
My last "favorite" in this show was a Rembrandt portrait of an old man, painted just 2 years before his death. This was hung close to to other portraits by him, one a self portrait painted early on in his career, and it was wonderful to see how is style became looser and more expressive as he aged. I wondered if this could be because his eyesight was deteriorating but the info sign said that it's considered to be deliberate.
This is a show well worth seeing!
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paul roehl
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california
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Feb 14, 2013 - 02:22pm PT
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Hey Phylp,
Great review... I've been looking forward to this show for awhile! On my way.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 16, 2013 - 01:57am PT
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Faux flowers. Hand-stitch by Liz B. 4.5 X 7 cm.
I was given this by my sister, who inherited it from my Mom, who got it from my late wife Liz, who made only this one, framed it, and then went on to some other craft, I guess.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2013 - 04:20pm PT
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2013 - 02:20pm PT
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Eric Fischl
This painting has been known to be controversal because of the content. I really like how he painted the light and the way it plays with the blinds. Also like how he implied meanings and his questionable content, which many of his paintings have.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Feb 22, 2013 - 04:04pm PT
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Nice contributions all.
Tiki - I gotta see a detail of Hadji.
Phylp - nice report. That goldfinch is a beauty.
K2 - Your post reminded me of a silkscreen poster done by one of my design professors back in college, McRae Magleby, inspired by Hokusai's famous wave. It won tons of design awards, and reproductions still probably bring in royalties to McRae.
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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Feb 22, 2013 - 07:05pm PT
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My colleague, Sean is standing on a table in front of a mural that he and I and a few others painted for a Seattle arts fundraiser in 1993. The painting on muslin was mostly 19' tall and about 650' long (about 1/8 of a mile). It featured large copies of old masters and included the drapery and frieze and wainscoting, paneling.
The mural wound around the Grand Ballroom and in-out of several other spaces in the Sheraton Hotel. I painted the Lautrec copy on the left which was about 10'x 14'. The project took us about 4 months, was installed for the big event, and discarded a few days later. I contacted every college, high school and theater I could, trying to find a home for the thing, cut out and saved-donated a few of the large copies.
Here's my 12' x 9' copy of a familiar Renoir "le Loge" which took about a day and 1/2. We painted the frames too.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Feb 22, 2013 - 07:30pm PT
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Keith, that is just mind-boggling!
The piece intact sounds like something that might have found at least a temporary home in a place like Marfa, TX!
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Feb 23, 2013 - 10:39am PT
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Keith, those are awesome!!
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2013 - 10:45am PT
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Tiki, saw your work at metalmark and it was impressive. I posted on your shameless art plug.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Feb 23, 2013 - 03:22pm PT
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TJI, Thanks Bro!
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Feb 23, 2013 - 06:53pm PT
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Feb 23, 2013 - 09:26pm PT
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A couple new works.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2013 - 09:42pm PT
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Good stuff Paul and bc. Lembert Dome!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 23, 2013 - 09:45pm PT
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hey there, say... thanks for all the newest shares, :)
i love seeing 'paint' doing what it does, :)
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Feb 23, 2013 - 09:49pm PT
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Paul, I like your latest quite a lot!! Thanks.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Feb 23, 2013 - 10:03pm PT
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Gorgeous stuff, both of you!
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Feb 23, 2013 - 10:13pm PT
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Beautiful art on this page!!!!!...
Galleries?
edit: Mr Leaman, wow...
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Feb 24, 2013 - 01:12pm PT
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Wow! Good stuff Paul and BC!!
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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Feb 24, 2013 - 01:50pm PT
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I find the human figure, face and hands, with all their subtleties are a favorite subject. These are portraits I painted during Anthro. studies in Nayarit, Mexico. Really enjoying everyone's work!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Feb 24, 2013 - 01:57pm PT
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Noelle Ora Sandwich 1927-2006
Collection from the War Memorial Museum Auckland New Zealand. Work from her years in Tonga in the early 50s. Fabulous!
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2013 - 06:42pm PT
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Those are some great portraits Keith. I especially like how you handled the clothing, the valleys and mountains from the folds. Really nice paintings, thanks.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Feb 24, 2013 - 09:33pm PT
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Wonderful work Keith.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 25, 2013 - 12:13am PT
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hey there say, keith... wow, love the work... i've slowed on my portraits, as it is winter, and have no fresh here for the oils...
i am doing some smaller ones in acrylic, and then will get up to it all, in spring...
love seeing how folks go about all these things...
also, quido... great shares... i love the paint so very much and am so happy to have it all now, that i have left SKETCHING as those 'unpainted works'
on the ol' shelf for now...
*finally did a small one for the grankkids' other grandpa, just a bit ago, and it was fun... though the paper was not too good...
there is sooooo many wonderful things to do, art wise, so vast, you just want to hug it all, and work with it, :))
thanks for all the neat shares, here, once again...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 26, 2013 - 08:16am PT
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Renoir. Still Life w Figs & Peaches.
Beaudelaire. Author of Fleurs de Mal.
Mistress & Self-Portrait.
Chagall. Violinist under the Roses.
Fantin-Latour. Narcissi in a Tall Glass.
Guido, nice tour!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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A little community outreach.This appears in the article provided by Boodawg on Lilabiene's story as reported in the UCLA newspaper.
The article is in Statistical Improbabilities.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... neat share...
of the lila biene story, :)
say, i saw this the other day, when i was deciding which other new
color of red paint i could use...
) http://venetianred.net/category/fine-decorative-arts/painting/page/6/
just a sec, will try to download a pic from there to put up here...
if it is allowed... if not, just follow the link...
:)
*I THINK this is photography art, THERE, TOO, but still nice to
see in the art thread...
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Mar 15, 2013 - 08:59pm PT
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A new piece:
And the piece I posted upthread called "Thin Blue Line", reworked. I still don't love it but I like it better than before:
Happy Friday, gang!
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2013 - 09:07pm PT
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That upper one reminds me of the east side a lot. Very cool that you're getting your painting in, thanks phylp.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 15, 2013 - 09:23pm PT
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hey there say, phylp.... wow, can't see it yet, did not load...
will try to get back,tomorrow night, :)
say, i got about five small acrylics to share... will have to wait 'til
they get to there new home, or folks here, will not be surprised, :))
but THIS one, is already sent and seen, so can share it:
i do have this one, going out to my mom now...
it is more of an impasto type mix, with the detail being only on the egret:
i can't wait to share the others, they are winter paintings, and i
had never done snow before, :))
hope yours has loaded by the time i post this, :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 15, 2013 - 09:34pm PT
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hey there say, all.... not sure, if i posted this here or not?
i know i put it on one of the 'disaster master' threads....
it was a gift for ruth... it was one of the 'one in life time type things' where you just get a sudden 'gut feeling' to GET IT DONE...
turned out, though, it was LATE to reach, but suddenly was there was for paul's birthday... well...
a few months later, ruth died, :O
i will always be thankful that she got to enjoy this before she died...
it looks like it was a 'this is waiting for you' type gift:
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mar 15, 2013 - 09:38pm PT
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phylp- that upper painting is very nice.
You're quite an artist!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 15, 2013 - 09:48pm PT
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hey there say, all... here is a work in progress... :))
well, two... and hope to share ol' doug, soon, :)
(his is a gift though, so may not post it 'til mid may)...
note:
phylp, wow, i just saw what jefe mentioned...
very nice neat work, :)
soft nice colors, the top one... :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 15, 2013 - 09:58pm PT
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hey there, all, say, many of the pics are now starting to show...
say, mtmun, i did not KNOW you had a pic of you painting, :))
so fun to see!!
i love the coyote's singing... that is my favorite work, by you, so as i 've seen...
say, mouse, just saw liz's creation of flowers... very nice...
thanks for sharing... would have been so wonderful if she'd kept it up...
but traveling through live, on creations adventures, leads us all to many things... i wish my dad had kept painting, too, he only did a small handful...
say, this just in...
well, as to the 'questionable art' ... at least his work DOES look like
it is a private moment, as well it should be... (due to the blinds and the light and such... and it makes it more man-woman natural, as it is meant to be...
also, trying to remember what else just showed up... hmmm...
oh, the GOLDFINCH... very sweetly gentle painting...
thanks for sharing...
:)
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Mar 15, 2013 - 10:50pm PT
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Neebee, very sweet story about Ruth, very touching. Art is a gift no doubt.
Phylp, really like the cohesive color of the first one: great sky! Nice job.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 16, 2013 - 09:40am PT
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hey there say, paul... i know, it was somehow just meant to be...
she wrote such a neat note, and it was so strange when she was gone... :(
they both belonged together though...
oddly, i just learned of an older couple in their late 80-90s,
and the man died... well, his wife died a few days after him... they had
a double service... even the grown kids and grandkids just knew it was
supposed to be...
thanks for sharing, paul... gifts, yep, that is so true as to that art in our heart...
(yours, by the way, always reminds me of my mom... we loved the calif foothils, etc... had many little walks and wild live fun, thanks so much for sharing it here, as, i can't get there to the neat calif galleries that are in many neat places)...
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Mar 16, 2013 - 11:28am PT
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Thanks for the kind comments, friends. I tend more to the abstract, but my husband said "paint me something with clouds", hence...
Neebee, nice new work. I'm amazed at your productivity!
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Mar 18, 2013 - 01:10pm PT
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Real nice spectreman.
Wish I could see your painting photos a little larger neebee. Really like the coloration in the last few, and the egret w/waterfall. That one reminds me of some of those classic audubon paintings with the landscapes/habitats in the background.
Keep painting phylp! Liking those minimalist landscapes.
(Tiki needs to post up a pic of a sweet little landscape he did, of the east side if memory serves, and purchased recently by micronut.)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 19, 2013 - 09:12pm PT
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hey there say, phylp and nate...
thank you, very kindly... for the mentioned notes...
landscapes and birds, and such, are what i always did, and know well, the hows and etcs there... and enjoy them so much... (have done the design and abstract type things, too--love designing, as well)...
best, though:
like the birds that nate mentioned... and clouds and such and trees...
those were my specialties, back in the day...
however,
i am trying to master this new portrait stuff, and it is a challenge, :O i miss doing the other art, of course, but enjoy this new adventure and hope
that someday, i can blend them all together, :))
who knows, child, bird in garden...
or hiker, a gal or guy, happening upon a sweet deer, :)) in the midst
of a slightly rain day, :))
but, someday, i will get it, it is seeping into the ol brain,
little by little, even as the landscapes have, :)
will try to pull them out of the ol' pocket on occasion,
as i am doing with the horse and the elk pictures...
and my NEAT giant blue heron, that is still on hold, a bit...
just started to 'revive him' :)
will post him, again, soon...
sorry, nate, i am dial up, so i can't post larger... :(
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Mar 19, 2013 - 10:43pm PT
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This is an "Artist's Proof" of an etching done by Russ McLean (Life Is A Bivouac.) Our Birthdays are 5 days apart. He gave it to me back in 1972 on my birthday. It commemorates the friendship the Dennis Hennek, Russ, and I developed while learning to climb and living our lives beyond the climbing realm. I recently emailed the image back to Russ and Dennis. Russ said he vaguely remembers the piece. Dennis shot me back a pic of Rock #1 at Stoney Point, saying, "This is where three friends played."
Pic of Rock #1 at Stoney Pt. that Dennis sent me:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 19, 2013 - 10:49pm PT
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hey there, say boodawg....
oh my... this is why i love art so much... the memories and the feelings that go into it...
thanks for sharing...
that is why, tough as it sometimes seems, as to faces, i want to keep up the
portrait type stuff...
:))
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Mar 20, 2013 - 12:19pm PT
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Just putting the finishing touches on this one after it sat for nearly six months. Love that image of Rock #1 out at Stonypoint... spent so many hours on that thing, funny how a rock can be a kind of friend or companion. Can still feel all those moves and it's been so many years.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Mar 20, 2013 - 12:47pm PT
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Paul, your use of light is something to behold. That is a fine painting.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Mar 20, 2013 - 01:06pm PT
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Yes, Neebee, art has the ability to touch our hearts and souls. And yes, Paul, such images can evoke our deep, bodily memories. Lovely painting.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Mar 20, 2013 - 10:41pm PT
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Wow Paul! Beautiful!! MtnMun is right!!!!
Amazing!
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BillO
Trad climber
Yachats, OR
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Mar 20, 2013 - 11:02pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 21, 2013 - 05:03am PT
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hey there say, paul... oooo, i love that pescadero one, :)
say, bill O... very neat, thanks for sharing...
this is so fun, to visit here!
thanks all!
:)
here is a 'for the heart one, for a canada gal, that i known for a
few years... :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 21, 2013 - 05:19am PT
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hey there say, some neat finds, a bit ago, on line...
nice patterns...etc...
:)
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BillO
Trad climber
Yachats, OR
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Mar 21, 2013 - 10:49am PT
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Thanks neebee. Here's a few more in the same style.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Mar 21, 2013 - 09:57pm PT
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This is simply one of the nicest threads on Supertopo!
I love the recent postings.
Phyl
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mar 21, 2013 - 10:46pm PT
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One morning I got on my bike to head to work and found an artist out on the street.
She was painting my house.
Her name was Denise.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Home away from Home
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Mar 21, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
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I love this, Jefe.
Denise did an amazing piece.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 21, 2013 - 11:32pm PT
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hey there say, bill O.... wow, more wonderful rock stuff...
say, i makes the rocks look ALIVE... and in a wonderful way...
course, if they were, they might swallow us up, ;)
but YOU know what i mean...
thak you for sharing... had never seen any done like this before...
:)
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BillO
Trad climber
Yachats, OR
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Mar 22, 2013 - 08:31am PT
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Thanks! OK here are few more. And couple non rock this time.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 22, 2013 - 05:07pm PT
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hey there say, bill O ... very nice and the beach one is really
wonderful...
nice affects, too, with the graytone and colors...
very creative!
joshtree, too...
:)
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BillO
Trad climber
Yachats, OR
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Mar 22, 2013 - 11:45pm PT
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eKat that would be the Sea Perch RV Park about 6 or 7 miles south of a little town called Yachats.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 25, 2013 - 06:03pm PT
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I appreciate your sentiment, Phylpy.
Why don't some of you try to see this exhibit if it comes your way? I was lucky enough to see it with Ayshegul on my day trip.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Mar 25, 2013 - 07:04pm PT
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I'll definately look for it if I get to the Valley in May, Mouse. Thanks for the heads up.
Phyl
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Mar 25, 2013 - 09:10pm PT
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Jefe, your last post opening line sounds like a Steven Wright joke. "One morning I got on my bike to head to work and found an artist out on the street. She was painting my house." Badaboom. Seriously, I wish someone would show up and paint my house. Denise did a good job.
Here's the studio today. Getting ready for a show in a couple of weeks.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Mar 25, 2013 - 11:03pm PT
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bc, really very fine work, genuinely early 20th c. feel... Payne like but different. Good luck with the show!
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Mar 26, 2013 - 01:18am PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 26, 2013 - 07:36am PT
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hey there, say, mouse.... very nice to send out the reminder, of the art show...
and bc, VERY nice... so many nice things to show, may it all go wonderful for you! (nice little studio feel too),...
did you plan all these for THAT show... or just do them with the future as to any show that shows up...
:)
thanks for sharing your work... and your plans, there...
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Mar 26, 2013 - 10:55am PT
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Thanks for you comments Paul and neebee! I've always been a big fan of most all the 20th century landscaoe artists, Paul. Did you catch the Edgar Payne exhibit when it came to Cal last year. That was a real eye opener for me. I'll never be the same artist after seeing that show. Not that I want to paint like him, but the dedication to his craft was incredible and the sizes of the paintings was inspiring!
neebee, The studio is part of my garage. Just left of the paintings is a big pile of climbing gear and assorted non-art stuff. It can be crowded sometimes but at least I have a place to work. These works are going to be in specific shows. The highest Grand Canyon painting in the middle will be in the Grand Canyon plein air exhibit in Aug. The others will be at two outdoor shows - the Tempe Festival of Arts April 5-7 or the Phippen Art Show in Prescott over Memorial Day weekend. I'll have upwards of 30-40 paintings of various sizes for both of those shows.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mar 26, 2013 - 10:59am PT
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Good luck Bill.
I wish I could afford one of your paintings...maybe a print?
It doesn't seem like the Mtn or the Butte are subjects of your work, but if they were...
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Mar 26, 2013 - 11:50am PT
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bc, didn't see the show but have had the opportunity to see many of his paintings in SF and at Trotter and a couple of other "good" galleries in nearby Carmel. I've gotten considerable help from his book Composition of Outdoor Painting. His analysis of composition has been a huge influence on me. Love that book... which now has paint fingerprints all over it! Also his use of color which, like yours, has a remarkable sense of unity.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Mar 26, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
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10b4me, I love that Joshua tree piece!
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BillO
Trad climber
Yachats, OR
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Mar 26, 2013 - 12:50pm PT
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2013 - 01:20pm PT
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Looks like it's going to be a great show bc.
So a question, How many ST artists could make the Facelift this year? I've never been but was thinking maybe a little art show. Don't know who to contact, but wondering if it's a reality first.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Mar 26, 2013 - 04:22pm PT
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Although it doesn't get the hype of other places, I can highly recommend a visit to the Palm Springs Art museum.
Took my mom there when she was out to visit a couple months ago, and we were impressed. Probably spent 4-5 hrs in there.
So I guess I need to add an image...here's an example of a Deborah Butterfield driftwood horse sculpture. They (Palm Springs AM) have one (not this one, but another) in their permanent collection. Constructed from driftwood then cast in bronze. They are a dead ringer for real wood, even from inches away. The coloring is perfect.
EDIT: Edited to add, here's a link to the actual one in PSAM, just can't hyperlink the image:
http://www.psmuseum.org/palm-springs/exhibition/deborah-butterfield-ryuanji/
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Mar 26, 2013 - 04:48pm PT
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Elcapinyoazz,
those are incredible
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 30, 2013 - 11:35am PT
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Detail from Avalanche Poodle by Tami Knight.
It's for sale as part of the painting, though.
It needs it's own thread. :)
Seriously, Tami, had you painted a face on this sun I'd have put in a bid...
Is this a fire hazard so close to the wooden horsies?
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Mar 30, 2013 - 02:08pm PT
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Elcap - I too enjoyed the Palm Springs Art Museum. It's definately worth a visit when you're in the area. We saw a Wyeth retrospective there which was wonderful, and another time, a modern art glass exhibit.
It's a nicely laid out space, and as a bonus, you can walk around in that neighborhood behind the "downtown" area and see some cool old houses and motels.
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HF
climber
I'm a Norwegian stuck in Joshua Tree
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Mar 30, 2013 - 03:55pm PT
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Edvard Munch
Gustav Vigeland
Per Ung
Just to mention a few. The list is endless. Ansel Adams, Gustav Klimt, Edgar Degas, Vebjørn Sand......
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Anastasia
climber
Home
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Mar 30, 2013 - 04:27pm PT
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This is what the neighborhood children made for Easter. Yes, I was awestruck too.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Mar 30, 2013 - 05:45pm PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Beautiful pots, Stahlbro!
On Friday we went to SFMOMA to see the Garry Winogrand exhibit. It's really worth seeing. More than half of the photos in this retrospective have never been shown before.
The photos are so interesting. The photos are beautiful but the subjects are rarely beautiful. Not deliberately ugly but just "everyday" life. What struck me the most was the neutrality of his view. It's neither sympathetic nor unsympathetic. It's like he was saying "This is who we are, this is how we live, this is what we do."
About 1/3 of the photos are from the NYC area. My husband was most taken with these as he grew up in NY and the photos evoked so many memories.
Phyl
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Those fired pots are very cool as is the driftwood horse!
Here are a few pics of the painting NateD suggested I post.
It now resides in an esteemed ST Tribe Members home.
A man of 'extraordinary magnatude'.....the good Dr. Jett.
The rest of us know him as Micronut.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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bump
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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tiki, nice work. I mean, really nice work. Should I save up my old cabinet
doors for you? Would I be correct if I said you did the crackle finish
yourself? I'm thinking yes because it looks so good.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Hey thanks Reilly, to answer your question.....Yes!
Please save those cabinet doors and Yes that is my finish.
That particular door was maple.
Have done a number of kitchen cabinets with that technique combined with distressing.
And thanks for the kind words.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 25, 2013 - 06:25pm PT
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This here's ART. From Detroit. Michigan.
It already HAS a frame!
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Apr 25, 2013 - 07:03pm PT
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Painting of Grand Canyon from the south rim for this year's Grand Canyon Plein Air on the Rim exhibit. Living on the Edge 24x36.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Apr 25, 2013 - 07:16pm PT
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^^^
Beautiful work there. Love the desert landscapes.
Another supercool exhibit that was at PSAM in the winter was a series of paintings of grass by Karen Kitchel.
Now that sounds kind of boring or lame, grass right? But these were stunning, almost like photographs in the level of detail. And there were about 20 of them, different scenes, I was transfixed.
Can't link images because my net-nanny at work is being cranky, but it's worth googling her.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Those are odd bits of mirror. It's different each time you look.
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Bill Mc Kirgan
Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Nice mirror media. Thanks for sharing that Mouse From Merced.
Here's some of my neighbor's art. She's a fascinating lady who took up
painting late in life. I believe she began much of her work with the
assistance of a photo projector. She would project an image onto a canvas
and then sketch in the outlines. From there she would get busy mixing the
paints and bringing the sketch to life.
Her subjects ranged from flowers in vases to people and also included
familiar mountain and climbing locations like these.
^^^ this one is especially nice
She's not painting anymore, but sure turned out some good pieces.
I think she's going to take it to auction soon and I hope the locals get
in a bidding war over some of the pieces. I took these photos as I helped
bundle these and many other paintings for the trip to the auction.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 25, 2013 - 01:08am PT
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hey there say, all...
wow, finally had a chance to share a few small works that i sent out, in between the larger oils that i am doing...
ol' dial up froze up, and this taking long enough to write a book, :O
so, i grouped them all together... may be hard to see, unless you click on it, but i just can't do this anymore, after this... hard on the ol' body, the longer these mess-ups happen, :O :)
still, ever riding, thankful, into the breeze of the ol' trail here...
:)
but here we go, hopefully.. these were fun to do...
can't post all the separate notes that i had on each pic... so will mention
notes, after, IF THIS takes:
course, i just realized i FORGOT ONE... :(
well, one more try... this is the owl that ekat's friend photographed,
i painted it and sent it to him:
looks like it all took and did not freeze or stall...
whewwww... been here wayyyyy too long, got to go now... :)
*kestrel and wild horses, are bob d'~~~s photography, and he
graceious let me paint them... :)
canoe photo is blackbirds...
sweet cat photo is michelles...
deer and ducks, i drew up...
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jun 20, 2013 - 03:02pm PT
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Hi fellow art friends and fiends, I'm in Italy so of course I' having an art immersion.
First day we went to the Palatine Galleries and the Grand Apartments of the Pitti Palace. Wha t a fantastic collection, in a comfortable layout of rooms furnished with other items of daily living. well, people like NApolean lived there so I guess it was daily living for lifestyles of the rich and famoso.
We were not allowed to take photos so I'll have to update when I get home with my favorites. Great collection of Titian.
Today we spent five hours (!) in the Uffizi. Te viewing experience is a bit difficult because of the hoards of big tour groups, each with their own guide lecturing. The museum is in the midst of a much needed expansion/renovation and we got a taste of the new galleries which look to be much improved in terms of the lighting over the current galleries.
My traveling companion is my sister who is an art educator so it was nice for me to be with someone who wants to look as long as I do.
It's really not possible to pick a few favorites from this collection. But I have to say, there was one da Vinci which moved us both to tears, it was so beautiful.
One thing that we found amusing was comparing the beauty or lack thereof, of the various baby Jesus' in all the Madonna and Child paintings ( of which we must have seen 50). Man they painted some ugly babies!
More later...
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jun 21, 2013 - 04:23pm PT
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Today, Pisa. Spectacular!
Took photos but my Internet speed is too slow to post.
Will update when stateside again...
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Jun 21, 2013 - 05:28pm PT
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Art reports coming in from Italy.
Awesome...
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Jun 21, 2013 - 09:16pm PT
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Hey Bill Mc Kirgan, That second desert painting you like is of the Superstition Mountains looking east from near Apache Junction or just east of there. Cool place to climb and paint!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 21, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
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hey there say, phylp... wow, italy! say, thanks for the art share, from there, sure can't wait to hear more from you from here, :))
i am working on this now... :)
the yellow circles are where i still have work to do:
will post about two more soon... :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 21, 2013 - 10:43pm PT
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hey there say, here is one that was a birthday gift to someone i've known
since i was about 6??
here is one, but i can't share the lady's face...
(she is 'kind of very well known' though, older now)
*not an actress, though...
it is a gift to her:
:)
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jun 23, 2013 - 01:19am PT
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A recent addition. Blitzo photo framed and on the wall:
Right next to the 1887 Thomas Moran Yosemite etching from mom:
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jun 23, 2013 - 02:09pm PT
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Yesterday - Accademia Museum. My second time seeing the David live, and I'm still awestruck. They have greatly improved this museum from my last visit - there is a lot more art to see, mostly Florentine. The exhibits are now very well curated and add a lot of wonderful historical perspective.
In the late Afternoon we visited the cool rectangular church od Orsanmichele which is located right across the street from our apt. A fantastic choral concert of sacred music was just starting as we arrived. The choir was from Sacramento!
Today we wandered and managed to visit four churches. Santa Croce was amazing!!! We were blown away to see the tombs of Dante, Michaelangelo, Galileo, Rossini, etc. I almost had to physically restrain my art teacher sister from going over the rope to touch Michaelangelo's tomb!
Still cannot get a photo to upload, so photos will be posted upon return.
Phyl
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jun 23, 2013 - 02:34pm PT
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If anyone is in the Portland OR area, the World Forestry Center (next to the Zoo) has a nice exhibit of Ansel Adams work. It is a great place to take kids as well.
If you have never seen an actual print by Adams you really haven't seen his work. The actual prints put the calendars, books etc to shame.
Beautiful, luminous prints.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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ARGHH!! What have I done!
I applied to be included in a pretty competitive juried show held around here annually and, much to my surprise, I got in. Now I need to create 50 6" X 6" works in 50 days.
And I'm 12 days behind because the panels were distributed while I was in Europe!
My theme is
Eastside Sierra Vistas: Route 395 from Bridgeport to Lone Pine
I'm excited about the show, but there goes most of my climbing time for July. Thank God, I have one climbing trip already booked. Now I'm almost regretting applying for this show. I didn't think I'd get in so I didn't think through the impact it would have on getting to the mountains if I did. But it's too good of an opportunity to pass up, art-wise. It's rare for an amateur artist like me to have an opportunity for their work to be shown to such a big audience.
All first world problems (the choice between having time to paint or climb rather than work at McDonalds to pay the rent). So I'm not whining, just a bit freaked out.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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New Plein Air Bears 36"x36" Oil on Canvas
Plein Air Canyon Bear (At Gay Bentley Gallery, Incline Village)
Plein Air Omega Bear (At Pacific Crest Gallery, South Lake Tahoe)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 12, 2013 - 09:04pm PT
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hey there say, phylp... wow!! and wow again! that is 'one a day' :)
or, well, for you, two a day, :)) 'til you catch up, :)
say--how are you doing???
well, i'd think only about 4-5 of my stuff is really art-show worthy, :))
well, these are done now:
and send out:
you all KNOW these folks, :)
getting better at these faces, a face at a time, :))
got a ways to go, but i am happy about the adventure...
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jul 15, 2013 - 01:50pm PT
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Neebee, those are beautiful! I especially like the one of the woman.
I'm making some progress. I typically paint a first draft just to get something down, and then repaint after looking. Here are my first drafts to date. Some i won't do too much more work on, but some I may end up scrapping completely:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 16, 2013 - 11:10am PT
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hey there say, phylp... wow, that is progressing! the ones that we do fast, and 'throw down' i never can make up my mind about: i always want to go on and on, into details, :))
THIS is a good way to just 'do it' ... one a day--this project!
i only did two, like that... i want to do more...
here is are two of my 'long term' NOW finally at the finish line...
perhaps one or two more '5-8' hour sessions... not sure...
i balk a bit at the finish line, with portraits, as i perceive i will mess up, :O and hate to lose and refix the faces, :))
but these nature pics, i enjoy the finish getting close... :)
they do not have to resemble anyone, :))
i will have to make myself do some fast art, also, it is inspiring to see it 'unfold before our eyes'... keep it up--your project show will give you joy for the victory!!!
thanks for sharing all the paintings... i like the moon... i used to do a lot of those... and i did clouds and trees, way back, too...
though not much water... i need to practice doing that...
here are the two now...
ALMOST ALMOST DONE:
:) can't wait, :))
here it is photo shopped...
i could paint it this way, but it seems better to just do it
the real way, ... not sure why... i used to do lots of art designs, before...but then, i did not have many oils... and did lots of acrylilc...
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Jul 16, 2013 - 11:17am PT
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Here's my brother's work, ever do this to yourself?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all...
just finished some gifts...
twin buddies, horse...
mom's egret....
and son's birthday gift,
though he may not be into
wanting a painting of his nana, from back in the day...
but SOMEDAY he will be glad of it... :)
*from old black and white photo...
:)
better view, of the now finished horse...
edit:
oops forgot to put in the finished elk:
wished i had not added the snow to the tree, :O
too late now, :))
sometime, art-affect is better than real, :))
i miss the plain brown tree, but all else i am
happy with--usually this does NOT happen, :)
but--you know us artist:
what is the joke:
breaking into the gallery to RETOUCH or fix something ;)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Last Sattidy I ran into an ottist who crates in would you believe.
He's Richard from Planada. He lives across Hwy 140 from St. John's church.
He's taught his grandchildren all how to drawer.
I enjoyed this visit to his head space, which is mainly filled with chips of wood and salsa and Elmer's.
Very nice, very nice, que no?
So Planada is not a dump, just a landfill?
Would it help to know its original name was Geneva?
Thought not...
What if it was called Muskegon?
I liked your confession, neebee-never-satisfied, about wanting to sneak into the gallery... :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 13, 2013 - 01:00am PT
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A brace of windows with dream catchers, fifth floor, the Tioga Hotel Apts.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 30, 2013 - 08:39am PT
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hey there say, all... oh my, it IS done now...
(well, i have to add a darker bit of hair, on the
very top--it does not show well--now WHEREEEEEE IS
MY OL' PAINT BRUSH, ;) oh my ....)
well, i finished this in time for the contest things,
so, it will be a few months, 'til they let us know:
it is a black, white and their 'grey mixture'...
made some neat colors, here for my first self-portrait:
EDIT:
nice, when one wears false-eye-lashes, :))
you get to do your eye lashes, really DARK, :)
will also add the bit of hair on the very top,
that i OVER looked, :O
(may have to wait until after the CONTEST, i think?)
:)
was fun to do! did two others, but there were
not to share, as they were personal to someone...
then, i have one of my younger brother, when his horse was born...
will add that later... :)
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Open Studios in Santa Cruz
You're invited: 364 Oxford Way on the Westside.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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^^^
http://www.artscouncilsc.org/open-studios/
The first three weekends in October.
Great time of year for a trip to Santa Cruz...
I'll try to make it down there Paul, not sure If I'll be in town. Maybe 19/20th...
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Awesome work eveyone! Hadn't seen this thread in a long time.
How'd the 50/50(?) show go, phylp?
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Good weekend at open studios. We do it again on the 19th and 20th.
Thanks Phylp for the mention.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Thanks eKat.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, paul!! wow, i LOVE the rain one!!
you can feel the foothills weather, for sure! just by looking at it...
hee hee, awwww, tami... we better not turn you loose in an art
gallery, ;)
i love your mice-art, by the way... i have one of your cards, for
those that don't know, :)
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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100-year-old church destroyed by tornado = new supply source for me. sad for the church. Yay for me.
Been using the painted parts in some new designs. these aren't quite finished yet.. need to send them out for electroplating.:
Tried doing a few landscapes. Kinda challenging.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 10, 2013 - 12:15am PT
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Five nine plus for JustTheMadeByHand and let's all go to the Coffee Shop.
Raucous clown chorus Applause.
That was beautiful, Skip.
Q. What does the electroplate process add to your classy stuff that's not there yet? Shine the metal?
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John M
climber
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Oct 10, 2013 - 12:28am PT
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There's this place, in my mind, where I wander through slightly out of focus landscapes and the clarity they bring feels like the essence of pure light. I love being there, but I have no control over getting there. Your work takes me there and I stand in awe.
Nice work Paul
Ekat.. your words made me think of this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I
Justthemaid. I love that last landscape.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Oct 21, 2013 - 12:00am PT
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Wild Iris Bear 42"x42" Oil on Canvas
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DM88T
climber
San Juan Bautista, CA
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Oct 24, 2013 - 12:08am PT
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bump for MtnMun
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 24, 2013 - 12:34am PT
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Really nice stuff, everyone.
Visited the National Portrait Gallery over the weekend. Lots of very good American art there. The presidential portraits were mostly very weak. JFK's was very good, Clinton's was original and good. The best IMO was John Tyler by George P. A. Healy. Healy seemed the best of the old school president picture makers.
My favorite painting there was City Girl. This is not a very good reproduction here, it is much more vivid in reality. It's a contemporary subject done in a very classic style. The fabric is particularly well done, much like those old Euro masters did their fabric BITD.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 24, 2013 - 01:18am PT
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Oh, I've been missing this thread...missed the most recent stuff. All nice to see.
Thanks for the Gallery TR ^^^ I always enjoy reading them.
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Bluelens
climber
Pasadena, CA
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Oct 26, 2013 - 02:35pm PT
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Saw this for $8 at the local Whole Foods Market. Himalayan Yeti.
Fair trade imported from northern India.
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Oct 27, 2013 - 12:51am PT
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Georgia O'Keefe.
This is the view of Cerro Padrenal from her Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico.O'Keefe painted and sketched this view several times.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 27, 2013 - 08:30am PT
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hey there say...
here is the latest in my learning of portraits...
:)
done with a photo of his work as the backdrop:
lastly NOT one of my better landscapes, one that is not too good, as, i need to learn how to
do green swamps better, :))
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 27, 2013 - 10:49am PT
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Neebee - do you ever sleep? LOL, how do you find the time to do so much art?
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Oct 27, 2013 - 10:50am PT
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I disagree about the bird swamp-scape. I think it's great! Looks like an old impressionist painting.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 27, 2013 - 11:21am PT
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hey there say, phylp... hee hee... well, the critters don't talk much, so i have a lot of time on my hands... ;)
yeah, i been awake all night, this time... but i will get 8 hours sleep in just a bit, as, it is sunday...
also, i unexpectedly ended up early retirement,as to work,
due to that hip-sciatic thing :(
so i have time to use wisely AND CREATIVELY...
AND... i need to write my other jake-book though... and, do a small bit of knitting and sewing, before christmas...
and another thing, too, is, i have not been able to paint for nearly 30 years, so this challenge at trying new things with the paint, is like showing a horse, a whole fresh field of meadow! :O :)
*i used to do landscapes and birds and trees, and clouds, but now, i really want to help folks with these portraits, and SOMETIMES whewww, they really get tough, and all due to one TINY thing--the key is trying to discern what it is, as we overlook what it is :)) --even if you have to stay up all night, :))
though, i usually stay up, 'cause it is fun, :) really, and a good melding of thoughts, movement, proper placement, and color melds, etc, as you know, and so much more... and i get lost in the moments... :)
i reckon, i am just 60, and it is my time, :))
justthemade... as to the bird, thank you, i always seem to find what i think is fun, and want to send it to my mom... then, i feel that i can't do it, and feel that i am sending her second best, :(
i think i will send it to her with a bit more confidence, now, >:D<
i sure loved the idea, i think it may have worked better in oil, the lines would FLOWED better, :)
well, YES, now, I HAVE to go to sleep... without 8 hours i will be in a daze and the cats and dog will take over the house, ;))
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yedi
Trad climber
Stanwood,wa
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Oct 27, 2013 - 12:22pm PT
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Thanks eKat , after a little hiatus( other work related) I am getting after it in a big way!
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Oct 27, 2013 - 02:53pm PT
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Some surreal collages from a recent Berlin showing of Sergei Sviatchenko's work:
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Oct 27, 2013 - 06:00pm PT
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Cerro "Pedernal"
My bad misspelling. I was confusing it with something else I recently read.
I think it means " flint hill"
At any rate ,O'Keefe loved the view and thought that if she painted it enough times "...God would just give it to me"
For all of the time O'Keefe spent up there, she didn't produce much that reflected to true beauty of the area
Fortunately for me, and, unfortunately for you in this case, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
EDIT: excellent stuff neebee. You have your own style and touch. Keep showing!!
The contrast between the bird and the surroundings gives the bird a sense of being lighter than air just at the moment its taking off. Good job.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 27, 2013 - 06:57pm PT
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hey there say, ward trotter...
thank you, i was afraid he'd look like was 'standing on the water' or, if the swamp water did not 'portray' proper, the 'mowed grass' :O
i have another 'in flight' one that want to do, but for me, not my mom this time, :))
i was nearly going to put a tad more detail in this birds feathers to make it look more real (the tail) but then i realized that when the take off, we DO NOT see that, :))
well, at any-rate, it is ready for my dear mommy... :)
note:
i GOT the idea from a photo that i knew my mom would love, so the idea
is not all mine... if i had not seen the photo, i WOULD have done the
bird over a manmade-type-LAKE that my mom and i loved to see... a lake in calif...
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Oct 27, 2013 - 11:53pm PT
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The detail of the reflection of the bird in the water is very cool and well done.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 28, 2013 - 07:39am PT
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hey there all, say, i forgot, was in a hurry the other night...
bluelens... say, just wanted to say, cute little yeti creature,
it reminds me of a snow monkey, too,
got to run now... :)
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Very cool thread. Don't think I have seen this before.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Pastels on the back of a Trader Joes brown bag. Done today after shopping.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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^^^ nice batrock, and quite thrifty of you. but i have to say that my favorite thing about pastels was how wonderful - and luxurious - the sanded paper was to touch. The whole process - so tactile. So expensive though!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... all...
got another of the old black & white, from the kids's great aunt...
guessed at the colors, but i know she loved blue...
this is for firstborn son, for a birthday gift, though, perhaps he may not appreciate it now--hope he will later... she loved them very very much...
they USED very red lipstick, back then... :)
and had, or had access at the photographer's to this
lovely jewelry from mexico...
i always loved their
earrings, when we used to shop there... but i opted of course,
to buy the cheeper 'plata' with the enamel flowers... not as elegant, but, very lovely, as well, in different ways...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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That's very nice, neebee. Last Friday, my gf signed us up for a drawing class at the Norton Simon. She's the artist, I'm just along for the ride, you understand. The class was on drawing heads. I have new respect for those who draw portraits. The proper proportions and perspective of the human face is not easy to achieve.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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That portrait is really lovely, Neeebee.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Saw this artist, Thierry de Cordier at the Venice Biennale over the summer... some of the best painting I've ever seen though these images don't do it justice. Really powerful work.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Those are gorgeous Paul! I can't imagine what a scene like the Venice art event must be like. I've gone to the SF national/intl dealers event at Fort Mason a couple of times and even that was kind of overwhelming.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, FortMental...
oh my, that is so funny--they are so SIMILAR, :) what a things to see! say, i was later able to spot that pita's
eye, (her right) our left-side of view, was somehow off a tad... or the line was a tad 'not up to par'...
well, now i will not worry... as, the famous photo, you showed now, has eyes that are off a tad, too... :)
i wonder if the photographer that had pita, SIT, had seen that artwork, first and hope to have a photo, in his own way, to match, :)
gary, as to this:
The proper proportions and perspective of the human face is not easy to achieve.
oh my, so very true... and every time the head moves, new angle are there to conquer, right when you THINK you understand something, :O
and then, there are a few varieties of nose, mouths, etc, those many eyes are similar, there is chins and jaws, and oh my! ...
i mean, wow, if you do a cat, dog or elephant, at least certain breeds, etc, have basic formats nearly the same... (expressions make the special pets, here, in this case)...
then, after thinking you've learned the face...
THEN, there is learning to get A PORTRAIT likeness of someone, and
man oh man... :O it nearly makes you feel like you are slipping back down the trail and all the dirt is sliding down with you, :O
then--once you get the face drawn and say, "wow, i think i got it" well, you add the paint and say, "OOPS" i just lost the whole likeness, :O
whewww...
at least, trees, etc, you can allow for 'winds of change' :))
i was painting my brother howard, a ways back and by some wrong move of the brush, i THEN had MATT! there before me, and not howard, :O
sometimes i have it almost right, and it needs a small change and the brush HITS wrong, and then it far worse than before and i nearly have to start over, :((
HAVE FUN!! you will still love the adventure, gary!
*thank you to phylp...
and keep sharing... i love art...
i have sound some other painters, again, with neat paintings, that i will try to share, later... just 'finds' on the net, as to folks we've really not really heard about... but neat stuff...
woo
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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I echo the thanks to those who have shared more great stuff.
How about this guy, Kim Keever?
Builds landscapes in large tanks of water, lights, and shoots 'em.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Nov 12, 2013 - 12:10am PT
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Vernal Falls in progress.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 12, 2013 - 03:23am PT
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hey there say, paul ...oh my!!! i love your falls...
i am trying to do one, too...
hope it will be at least half as nice as yours!!
wow... thank you so much for sharing... gives me hope, too!
mine, has someone in front of it, :)
but it is a surprise for a family member, so i can't share now...
will share later... :)
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the czar
climber
meyers, ca.
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Nov 12, 2013 - 11:23am PT
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Nov 19, 2013 - 09:24pm PT
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Nov 19, 2013 - 10:22pm PT
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Artist: God
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Nov 19, 2013 - 11:46pm PT
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^^^ Nothing better!
I have a recommendation for a movie for the art lovers, called "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters"
It's a very interesting documentary about the artist and his process. He creates elaborately staged scenes featuring people and objects, and then photographs them, then does intense editing on the digital images to create the exact image he wants and finally prints these very large format prints. The scenes are so big he has a crew of dozens of people to help with the lighting, filming staging etc. The final product reminds me of Edward Hopper (though I prefer Hopper). Even if you don't like the work the film is fascinating to watch.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Nov 19, 2013 - 11:53pm PT
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here's an example
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 21, 2013 - 04:22am PT
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Local artists from Merced, currently exhibiting these and other works at the Multicultural Arts Senator on Main STreet.
Baaaa-ha-ha!!
Pretty crude, son!
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Nov 21, 2013 - 08:19am PT
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Just loaded all of my stuff in the car to take to San Francisco for my art show. Leaving today for 5 weeks of holiday madness. Snapped a few pics of the OOAK's. Sorry about the crappy screen. I always forget to take pics then it all sells and I'm bummed I didn't take pics. I posted a couple other pics of the landscapes a few pages back.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Nov 21, 2013 - 07:55pm PT
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Great work Skip!
Here is a recent one from my Joshua Tree Trip and another from Buckeye Creek during the fall Aspen extravaganza.
"Big Horn Of Joshua Tree" Oil on Canvas 24"x24"
"Plein Air flowing bear" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
If you are in Nevada City these will be at the Artisans Festival at Miners Foundry over Thanksgiving weekend.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Nov 21, 2013 - 09:32pm PT
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^^ Gorgeous work from you both!
Justthemaid, where is the show you'll be at in SF?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 21, 2013 - 09:40pm PT
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Serious creativity JTM and Mtnmun!!!!!!! Oh, and the techhnique of both of you equals the creativity.
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MisterE
climber
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Nov 21, 2013 - 10:24pm PT
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Justthemaid, where is the show you'll be at in SF?
Phylp, she left today to set up for first weekend.
It's The Dicken's Fair at The Cow Palace, and they just extended it to 5 weekends this year starting this weekend and running through Christmas.
She has a booth there every year. She also can get a limited number of guest passes, so if you are coming she may be able to get you a pass.
I really like her work this year, she is doing more wacky stuff and more with the painted glass.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 21, 2013 - 11:39pm PT
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Thanks Eric and Skip. Michael and I will be stopping by!
Thanks for the gallery of her work....beautiful.
Susan
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Craig Muderlak
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Nov 22, 2013 - 02:15pm PT
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In response to a lot of interest in making my art more affordable, I searched long and hard and found a printer that does justice to my originals. All of the information and more originals and prints is on my website: http://blownminds.blogspot.com/.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Nov 23, 2013 - 01:36pm PT
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Nice to see your art here, Ron!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 24, 2013 - 06:36am PT
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Ron, please, as yur frind, done sell yurslf short. You have an eye. It's not a glass eye, grate pal o' mine. You see things and you realize you LIKE it and you copy it. I'm no judge. I just know I like your vision.
It's like me, when I take a shot of a bird. I'm new at photography. I've learned from my mistakes, but it's up to me to judge the mistakes and do better work the next day. The time you spend on your work is time WELL SPENT. So please, let us judge for ourselves.
Comparisons are a way to sell a critic's work, first of all, and THEN some boob might believe the jerk and there you are. Rod McKuen, RIP, probably tried and tried and kept trying, to his credit. I'm not sure who blasted him to fame, but he was a jerk. Before long, his "acceptance" was measured by his income. This is not how the arts are to be judged. *
Art shows, like in county fairs, where actual judging is used to determine a winner and is fun for the participants, are like beauty contests--the eye of the beholder, the individual's performance, etc., vary from show to show. But when we look at one artist's work, usually we see progress in technique, choice of subject, and POV and materials.
As for your silly wets, I like 'em cuz they look like what they're supposed to be. Two different types of looking at the world, flat and textured.
I flat LIKE your work, but I won't compare it to anyone else's because that is not fair except as a learning tool, of course, and that is the job of a paid instructor. I'm not saying all critics are wrong. I'm just saying don't believe all of them every time and don't bother to take what they say very seriously. You, of all people, know how to stand up for yourself and defend your ideas, pencilhead.
I like all the rest of your eye music, Supertopo. Yer all aces with me.
* From the reliable folks at Wikipedia:
Despite his popular appeal, McKuen's work has never been taken seriously by critics and academics or by much of the public. Michael Baers observed in Gale Research's St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture that "through the years his books have drawn uniformly unkind reviews. In fact, criticism of his poetry is uniformly vituperative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_McKuen
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Nov 24, 2013 - 11:47am PT
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How about some earlier art.
One of a pair-hanging in my house.
Artist-Edward Collier, dated 1669.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Nov 24, 2013 - 11:52am PT
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Another painting on the wall-19th century English landscape by Henry H. Parker.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Nov 24, 2013 - 12:04pm PT
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A painting by Oscar Durand--Mom's Apron 20"x30"
hanging by our kitchen. I just had to buy this painting, and I never get sick of it!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Nov 24, 2013 - 02:09pm PT
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SteveA, thanks for sharing more of your amazing collection!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Museum trip report - San Francisco Legion of Honor: Matisse from the SFMOMA collection and Anders Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter.
With SFMOMA closed for the massive expansion, other area venues benefit by being able to show from their collection.
The Legion has a one room, high quality Matisse exhibit going on right now. Matisse is a favorite of mine. I could have spent the whole time staring at the works. I just find his stuff mesmerizing. Here are two paintings from the show:
The main exhibit is the Anders Zorn. this was a new artist to the four of us and we were all blown away, I mean just mouths hanging open, stunned amazement at the quality of the work. Now the average person would probably recognize the names Matisse, Monet, Cezanne etc, but how many have heard of Zorn? And yet we all felt that the quality and sensitivity of the work was such that he should be a household name.
Well, even if this was the first time I had heard of him, I was happy to learn that he was very well known in his lifetime, probably the best portrait painter of his day. He made quite a bit of wealth from his work and moved in society circles.
Once of the things that impressed me was how well-travelled he was. He and his wife live in Sweden, Paris, Spain, the US and other places during his life and he took inspiration from all these places for his work.
He started out painting in watercolor and his technique was astounding. The earliest work is almost photorealistic, which is mind-blowing. Here was one of my favorites of the earlier work, when his style had started to loosen up a bit (1885):
Later on he began to work in oils. Here's one from 1897 that was one of my favorites. The photo doesn't do it justice, it's gorgeous in person.
Darn, having trouble uploading this one. Will try again later...
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Yeah, cannot wait to get up there and see that show...TFPU!
The Hockney show too.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, phylp... wow, i love the colors in the one with the dog...
thanks for sharing...
i just got another one of mine done, but it is kind of private, so i may not share it, though it it and one other, are really from a movie-still...
:)
and two private portraits... :
but, when i get the next crop done i will share...
say, phylp:
have YOU done any new ones to share, yet?
as always, so happy when paul shares!
hope some more folks step in tooo...
i found some neat one on line, by some artist, that i want to share,
(with their names, credit of course) just have not had dial up time, yet
for long share...
:)
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2013 - 10:21pm PT
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Good to see you're getting out and about Phylp. You still in the sling? Thanks for the report!
Hadn't heard of Zorn either.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, steve A... did not get to see the shares, yet, will come back, soon, i hope and try to let them load... :)
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Here it is.
Neebs no work for a while, right-handed and surgery as you know. Justin, no sling and it's coming along. Still a lot of night pain.
Paul, Daphne, Michael and I went to see the Hockney. Daphne loved it, but it left me and Michael unmoved. I respect him, no doubt, and I can see the skill and ideas, but there's not an emotional connection for me with this work. Still, very impressive show. the scale alone makes it worth it.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 14, 2013 - 05:13am PT
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That Zorn's a much finer painter than we know, I'll bet. I've never heard of the man till now, but he looks like he's holding back, and maybe that's because of the fact it's a postacard and digitized. The eyes don't lie, do they doggie lovers?
The pink molding on this next work sucks, agreed?Here is a genuine photo of a painting which visited the lobby office yesterday. It was difficult to shoot. It kept wandering around, licking its paws.
The painter Pobla (I call him Larry to piss him off--he's Russian, it's easy) is maybe selling it to Tami and her husband. Tami works for the new Tioga Apartment Homes management as their charming rep in the office: and she has a friend, Michelle, a winsome lass, who visited yesterday while I was trying to do justice to Larry's, I mean Pobla's work.
Both women are very "in love" with this painting. I don't understand. It's even cruder than Matisse. :0)
What's the big deal with oil that looks like a child (a talented child, admittedly) did it? I suppose the charming Tami has her reasons for liking it and she's been looking at it daily at work to see if she wants it in her home. We both dissed the "frame"--pink molding, the Russian artist's big-time uninformed on the effectiveness of great framing.
You can't save a work of terrible art with voluptuous framing, but then framing can be a work of art on its own. Put it on the wall, empty, thus showing off your talent as a wall-painter, like your gallery of collected Lost Arrows and Bonatti 'biners might suggest you are a talented wall-climber. Just a suggestion from the box.
Because they are fun to look at, first of all, in my opinion, impressions are not meant to depict real life. How many lions are gonna be doing what we see that one in the painting doing? Never. Not this white punk. It's the imagination that is fired in us by simple works by people who enjoy working quietly and talking to others through their brushes and daubing.
It's what makes neebee's work appealing. She is our prime example, too, of the artist who arts for the sake of OtheRs, not that Art fella. You all get my drift. You are all respected judges of worthy (and not so worthy) art. You all own art. Art's so subjective it's funny. I can see right through a person by looking at what he puts on his walls and shelves. I'd love visiting you folks, having the docent's tour. Should that chance ever arise. Unless you don't want me seeing right through you, that is. But then, why have art and display it if you don't share it? Thank you all for sharing. It's been a fine experience, this year, with images.
"Merry Christmas," to oil!
And to water-color, still photography, and pastel, "Black and White!"
To quote the avid collector Thaddeus Hocking, "I've been inside too long. Don't ask me why, Dragonfly."
edit: There is another painting which accompanies this one, according to sources close to Pobla--the manager of Sunny's wig shop in the corner of Middle Earth (the Tioga Hotel). Pobla's studio--we've been there on The Flames--is down Main a few doors. We both agree he's a crazy man who HAPPENS to be Russian, like the manager is a straight guy who HAPPENS to run the wig shop for a relative and HAPPENS to be black. I must see this other painting which HAPPENS to complement the After Rousseau. Is it Before Michelangelo, but During the Zulu War? I love mysteries.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 15, 2013 - 10:04am PT
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At the Multicultural Arts Center on Main STreet, Merced, for sale in the Arbor Gallery by local artists.
Fired pottery bowls by Joan Rafel.
Bowls turned in wood by Pope Lawrence.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 15, 2013 - 10:57am PT
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hey there say, mouse... wow, nice share... i DID see this share of yours already... twice, makes it just as nice... (as to the art) ...
say, oddly, the pink frame thing brings out a type of highlight that is in the painting that might not otherwise catch the eye...
i liked it, in that way... though, if we could run around all over and try all kinds of frames, i'd sure find others that we'd all like, too...
say, to me, that art, meant the the subject in the painting, had fallen asleep, after playing 'music of africa' and was dreaming of the lion--though NOT of the lion getting ready to eat said-dreamer, :O
just seemed like the neat colors of the close, matching the music-instrument, sent the singer off to dreamland:
which was the darkness, lion and such... however, oh my, the painter
would and could, very much DIFFER on that idea, :))
i had some of mine that i finished that i'd like to have shared, but two were for a private family man, and the third and fourth, as well...
don't reckon i'd show them...
however, after the holidays, i do have about 12 i can show... :)
:)
there is this one, OIL--that is NOT DONE YET...
ONE of these??? i may have put up already???
THESE ARE ACRYLIC--as--i needed to get them done fast, for
surprise birthday gift, and thanksgiving gift:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 15, 2013 - 11:19am PT
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That first unfinished one is so very beautiful. I've seen it on the FB page as it progressed.
I have a spot for it, won't pay a lot for it, because it's one you should keep and make one more that's sorta like it but with the crops ready or already in--just thinkin' out loud. That should go for a lot more than what I paid for that portrait of Liz. It's real "showpiece."
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 15, 2013 - 11:24am PT
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hey there say, DMT... thank you so much... i am trying to climb the ol' mountain trail, for sure...
occasionally i slip and slide back to some ol' rut of various boo-boo
blunder, but i am getting less and less of that... so the trail is more
even keel now... (well, for not being a boat) ;)
say phylp:
i love that midsummer dance once...wow, it make it FEEL real...
i don't always like the 'blur' styles of art, and i used to wonder why,
'til one day when me and one of friends were talking about stuff, by phone:
i think this is why:
when i was about ten? i had to get glasses... well, for the first time that i could recall THEN-- TREES were crisp and clear and i could see the edges... they were not blurred brown things with bushy green stuff...
i was really amazed :O
so i think, oh my, that THAT is why, whenever i start to try and paint that way, as it looks FUN to just smear around the colors with brush shapes only and not much form, and such--well, i just HAVE to fix it, :))
odd how life molds our art, :))
:)
well, i was babysitting and trying to finish secret santa gifts, so i
need to go sleep now... whewww, :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 15, 2013 - 11:48am PT
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hey there say, mouse... yeah, i would like to paint a large one like this to keep... or sell... but i do awful, in sales... :O
so anything, jewelry, dreamcatchers, art, books, all are special gifts,
:)
THIS one is a gal's family, and she hoped to have it for christmas... she only could put in about almost half of what liz, went for... but she has four kids that she is still helping out, and two are in her home, still and she is a single mom--i rarely get paid for my work...
nearly all are gifts... but a gracious mouse, and this gal, and a handful of a few FUN folks, have sent me kind money for the paintings, later, and
i was really shocked and of course, very grateful...
and a climber gal, here, paid for a very nice fun one, i did for her, as
a job that she wanted... i had fun with that... and with yours!
NOW:
shocked, meaning, i never expected any at all... gifts are gift, you know, but wow, it always came right when i really REALLY needed it, so i think god must have nudged someone, very sweetly in those cases, :)
as he did with the liz, painting, :) ;)
WELL,
she will pay for shipping, etc, too, as this is large... :O
CAN'T WAIT to share the others... :)
there is ONE with stripes, later, that HOPE you will like...
i am not too good with stripes, as they move and change color, etc,
in material (like the one that phylp, share, above)...
:)
wow, i really got to go to sleep... be back later, all...
:)
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Dec 15, 2013 - 12:44pm PT
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Neebee, love that painting of the countryside and the house... very fine.
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Dec 15, 2013 - 01:27pm PT
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Some recent studio work.
The winter scene is a Christmas gift for my mother-in-law who broke her shoulder in 17 places last week in a fall. My father-in-law commissioned the piece prior to her fall. I was happy how this one turned out and hoping it will bring her some peace.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 15, 2013 - 02:13pm PT
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Nice share, Mouse.
Gorgeous new work everybody!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 15, 2013 - 02:26pm PT
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Technical question: Why will neebee's photos not enlarge when clicked?
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 15, 2013 - 03:08pm PT
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And Neebs has repeatedly said she has a dial up connection - too slow for larger images!
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Dec 15, 2013 - 03:19pm PT
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Two more recent paintings.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 15, 2013 - 09:49pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... as to this, did not have time before...
I can see right through a person by looking at what he puts on his walls and shelves. I'd love visiting you folks, having the docent's tour. Should that chance ever arise. Unless you don't want me seeing right through you, that is. But then, why have art and display it if you don't share it?
very true--you learn about about someone, by their wall...
in life, folks may make 'walls to keep folks out' ... but if you get
'past the court yard' the inner walls sure can reveal a lot, :)
fun share...
yep, phylp... the dial up ... only way i can get pics up, is if they are 400 and not much larger... even these take a long time, but not too long to wait... even these will stall, at times, too... :(
thanks to dingus, too for great info there...
also--oops, as to the ol' dial up neebee-notation:
the reason i share about the dial up so much is i FEEL so rude, :(
when i first GOT to the taco, the dial-up worked enough to function...
i was able to share a lot and help encourage and even read trip reports
'according to pics' as well...
BUT NOW??
sure can't figure why dial up was suddenly WORSE, :(
BUT NOW, i figure i got the answer:
now-a-days things are updating FAR TOO FAST, and all the sights have tech things that dial up just can't handle, so i don't 'do what i used to do' here... and at the other spots i visit..
in fact, i GAVE up on the epilepsy site, all together...
too complex--they made it all 'fancy' etc,
ooops, back to ART WORK HERE NOW...
:)
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Dec 15, 2013 - 09:55pm PT
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BC those are great!!!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Dec 15, 2013 - 10:11pm PT
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I posted these on a different thread, but this seems to be a much better place. Thanks for the reference DMT.These were done by BHSU professor Ann Porter's class of photos of mine. They are quite large 6 x 8 feet. Each student paints 2-3 tiles on canvas in black and white. She has done two more and I will try to get pictures of them sometime soon. She specializes in stained glass and I think it is fairly impressive for a 100 level course. They have all been iconic places(climbing areas) in the Black Hills.
JTM love your stained glass.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Dec 15, 2013 - 11:54pm PT
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Dec 22, 2013 - 04:57pm PT
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2013 - 01:14pm PT
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That's awesome timid. I will definitely check out one of his shows when the time comes.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 28, 2013 - 01:50pm PT
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hey there say, mike m... wow, that is neat... the each student to do a piece...
i will remember this for kids, sometime... very nice...
we used to do little drawings that way, but i never thought to have them do something this big, or, even as painting... black and white, makes sense, of course, or, they not seem proper shape of anything if too many colors came into play... very nice, share... thanks!
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Dec 28, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
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bc,
Really nice work!
Prescott is quite the art community.
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
Charityville
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Dec 28, 2013 - 04:39pm PT
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
RC-
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Dec 28, 2013 - 04:46pm PT
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this just in
Thanks for that link.
Simply amazing!
RC,
Quite different and creative--to say the least.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Dec 29, 2013 - 11:50pm PT
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Great frames from the Alameda flea market, first Sunday of each month... worth the trip!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 30, 2013 - 12:22am PT
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I like your photo, "Ricardo".
Paul, Michael and I are huge fans of Antiques Road show and we keep saying.. we have to start going to the Goodwill or Estate Sales, and find a discarded modern master painting --- we're not content with the idea of a good frame!
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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I basically plagiarized this. Acrylic on an old interior door.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Wow Lollie! And I was impressed withe Leningrad subway.....
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2014 - 08:59pm PT
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Yeah Lolli, that is cool. Thanks.
U 2 speelyei.
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Being used to the Stockholm subway, I never thought about it before I saw those photos... it's rather clean, isn't it? They weren't photoshopped, it looks like that.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 19, 2014 - 11:58pm PT
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hey there say, all... still praying for daddy, but my mom helped me feel good to keep busy... so THUS i am:
trying to keep busy... it is good, then, i will finish these sooner than expected, and start the next batch (they will be more challenge, as they are couples) :) but some of nice background, :)
i go by what catches my eye, :))
sometimes i think i bite off more than i up-to-par do, :))
well, here are these... ONE i can't show, as it is a surprise for a couple...
THESE ARE NOT YET DONE, BUT GIVES an idea on starting things
and how they progress:
*car is all choppy--needs a LOT of straight line detail, :O
am putting the last bits on this tonight:
water, clothes, garden and fence touch'ups:
will get it ready to mail then, when the friend is ready:
this is done, but it was a gift for someone, so i
COVERED IT UP, so it won't end up so'out there' in web land, :))
nice break, for the start of the rest of the night now, :))
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jan 20, 2014 - 12:24am PT
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Nice shares, everyone.
(Hang in there, NeeBee.)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 20, 2014 - 12:30am PT
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hey there say, thank you so much, phylp... :( i am getting off line now to call my mom...
hope i hear that daddy is still 'even keel' :)
night, phylp and all... will be keeping busy, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2014 - 01:19am PT
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At the Merced Art Hop--M.A.H. last night, Saturday.An event held four times a year in downtown.
Really, it's about the people who are doing the art.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2014 - 01:33am PT
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Not that UCM is a sponsor or a partner of the Merced Art Hop, but the UCM students seem to really appreciate our interest in the arts, and they support our downtown businesses efforts to encourage them...
Who could ask for more?
The finger paint of fate is runny, my friends. Wear a smock.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Jan 20, 2014 - 01:48am PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jan 20, 2014 - 10:28am PT
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TT, what are the masks made of (how are they made)...
I like them.
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Jan 20, 2014 - 10:37am PT
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Two from last week.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Jan 20, 2014 - 01:51pm PT
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phylp: I took that photo at the Stonehouse in Nevada City. I believe they are metal cast sculptures.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Jan 20, 2014 - 02:21pm PT
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Albert Szukalski's "The Last Supper" ghost sculpture at Goldwell Open Air Art Museum near Rhyolite, NV
Russian Gulch, Sonoma Coast
Petroglyphs, Kalapana Coast Hawaii
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 24, 2014 - 11:56am PT
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hey there, say.... well, got to go sleep, but first:
GOT TWO done:
can you spot the difference, since the above earlier version:
just had fun, dividing it, for making notecards, for the gal:
wow, took long to get these up, but the fun, was worth it...
say, any of you with a large landscape, or anyone finding a neat one, on line, try, if you would, putting it UP here in PIECES, ...
beat it would look really neat! :)
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Jan 24, 2014 - 11:59am PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 24, 2014 - 12:00pm PT
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hey there, say, all... EDIT:
WOW, MOUSE! i love the merced art show stuff!!!!!
wow, thanks for sharing your LOCAL calif art show, :)
OKAY:
got this one done, too, acrylic, though, for the step and blood grandkids, for the mom of the the three in the middle... :)
kind of made the faces cartoon like, as, it was yet another 'hard to see good' small photo, :)
came out, neat though, :)
wel, night-night now--at noon, :))
still no call from my mom, :(
(but, i think she is waiting for more steady update)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 30, 2014 - 03:22am PT
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New things from Linda Abbot, former resident of YV, knows the Merry boy who climbed this first.
It's early days, you may still have a chance at it. It was just hung yesterday in the window to show with two others of hers.
It's "Early" and it's $900 or $90/mo. rent.
You might like to hang it thus.
But probably not at this price.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2014 - 03:19pm PT
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When out walking on a tour of town yesterday I went into see Miss Ann at the Merced Montessori School. Bevin, my daughter, attended there and then went to her mom's to K-thru-the-rest.
I had been thinking of going in there for years, in fact, and I found her in, she had a brief moment, and I told her of her student's success as a female lawyer, etc. Bragging is good if it makes each of us feel good about the person of whom we are speaking.
Miss Ann has a grip like a teacher!
I also took time, since I was in the neighborhood, to knock on Dudley's door. He and Boomer played golf every Wednesday afternoon with two other of their friends for decades. He was a lawyer, and he handled the affair of my lost thumb in the sixties.
He had a fall recently, went into rehab, and just got out. He sat and listened to my adventures a bit, then we discussed a matter, with me explaining how I needed his good advice as Dad's old buddy, a thinker, a planner. He was only to happy to comply. It felt good to be able to look at him and recall our own times together on golf courses and in Wawona, especially, where my late wife and I spent our honeymoon in 2990.
It's good to visit older folks, even just a few minutes gets you into the Age of Before and you think how you never knew till you heard the guy spiel...
Those wee the high lights of the day, for me. I hope it was the same for Miss Ann and for Dudley.
I blame Art for freeing me to do things not conventional, not the norm, not the quotidian. I'm no Pollock, but it's a crazy world, and to try to make sense of it, a sense of continuity is sometimes more needed than outrageeous nouveau chic of the month. Dudley has some nice work at his place in Wawona. I wanna go there to see it and judge it again after all that time away.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 13, 2014 - 05:23pm PT
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hey there, say, mouse... wow, this is an absolutely abSOULutly wonderful
post! yes, the older folks and their 'art of learned skills' ALONG with their art, is to be treasured by us!
art and artwork, does that to us... it helps us to SEE more beauty than many folks ever get to realize is 'hiding completely insight' ...
:)
turning see that WE SEE into neat art, is so fun, yet--we DO have to 'see' it first, or: we could pass it by...
passing it by, means, we lose the live art of it...
and we lose the 'new staged-in-paint' art of it, later, as well...
thanks for inspiring us!!!
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Feb 13, 2014 - 09:58pm PT
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Wow...great thread! So much "local" talent...
Finally got around to framing this print I liberated from a bathroom wall in Chamonix...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 14, 2014 - 08:55am PT
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Hello, Dali!
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Feb 14, 2014 - 05:56pm PT
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Saw a few from this guy further upthread...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 20, 2014 - 11:00pm PT
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hey there say, all...
just got back to work, since my daddy and all...
got these done, but NEED to get to the oils,
yours are getting done, tobia!
:)
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Feb 21, 2014 - 12:40am PT
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"Apple" Oil on Canvas 48"x 48"
"Art Lesson" Oil on Canvas 48"x 60"
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Feb 21, 2014 - 03:32am PT
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I really love seeing the work posted here.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2014 - 10:43am PT
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Good stuff Neebee and Mntmun. Really like that cat, you did a great job on the reflective light.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 26, 2014 - 06:17pm PT
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hey there say.... thank you, to this just in...
JUST got these done, for tobia...
OH MY... ooops... perhaps i should try to refix this refix:
:(
hope the ol' pupdog showed up well, as to the face, '
it was a tiny photo :)
his fur looked very light in this one... :)
oh my--so:
if this HANGs in a museum, will i 'get into, and sneak over and FIX it again; :))
LASTLY--IT IS done and packed, now:
hope this is good... tobia, is so kind, he LIKES all of them:
(wanted it to look more like bamboozal's pic, tobia--hoped this
worked, i MADE the photo larger, and it helped immensely)
:)
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Feb 28, 2014 - 06:29pm PT
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wow neebee, those are great, you are a godsend! thank you!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 28, 2014 - 07:56pm PT
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hey there say, tobia! ... say, i was all ready to mail them today, and well:
i decided to add a tad of dark to bamboozal's face, so he'd look more like him... and i did one of my 'best tricks':
i ruined the face... i been here about SIX hours now and have not fixed it...
so, will have to stay up all night and fix it...
if it is not freezing, i will mail THEM BOTH tomorrow...
sorry--i am very very famous in my house, here, for ruining everything i touch... :)
but--alas, i HAVE to, or i do not get the likeness ... i should settled for less, but i that i not good for portraits...
i am very thankful, though, that i did not have to 'touch up your mom', or
she would be in 'ruined limbo' too, for a few days, :))
it will be okay, before i send it, though, not to worry...
:)
i reckon i should have left it alone... but who'd have thought, ONE tiny DAB would have ruined it... :))
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all...
this one is NOT done, i need to DO the rail, but,
i've waited sooooooo LONG to get to this and get done, i just
want to 'help myself' feel encouraged, :))
the photo was another 'not very good one and very tiny' :)
but i love the sentiments and love in it...
and WANTED to see it painted...
plus, wanted to make it a surprise gift...
it is A RENEWAL of vows, and the really neat gal is pregnant and her
really neat husband is a really neat guy!
they were italy... :)
i could not find a clear photo of the buildings so they look a
bit 'like a fakey backdrop' :)...but in this case, that's okay,
folks can keep couple more in mind, i reckon...
THIS one, is for mouse's neice (i reckon i ruined the surprise)
... but it will be a surprise, for her, though...
there is something special about having uncles...
i never got to have places to go with my uncles, or even
see them... hope it will be a precious memory of that day:
i think? he said that they went climbing...
am going to send it this week (in case mouse, you are here--so you will know it is on the way, soon)...
:)
"happy neice day" hmmm, is there such a thing?
"happy nice day"
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Mar 11, 2014 - 05:17pm PT
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"Egrets at Buckeye Creek" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 11, 2014 - 05:21pm PT
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hey there say, mtmun... wow, i LOVE egrets!!!...
thanks for sharing...
course, i peeked, so i had double fun, to see this! ... saw it at the facebook, ;)
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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I've just started exploring my new "local" museums in southern California. So far we've made two visits to the Norton Simon. What a great collection they have!
Last visit I was entranced by this Picasso:
http://images.nortonsimon.org/viewer/index.php?id=F.1969.38.10.P
Sorry I can't just post the photo but it's copyright protected.
I just find this painting "Woman with a Book" (1932) wonderful on so many levels. Of course one cannot know what the artist was thinking but I'm imagining Picasso saying "OK, this is how it's done NOW". And getting a kick out of showing off his prowess. He incorporates so many basic, first art class lessons into this piece that it's surely deliberate - e.g. he uses EVERY primary, ROYGBIV, but places them in perfect complements and harmonies so that they are effortlessly showcased around the canvas. Same "lessons" to the viewer on composition.
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Mtnmun - i really enjoy your fresh, fun treatment of nature. Their vibrancy just jumps out at you.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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I also had a chance to spend a few wonderful hours viewing at the Palm Springs Art Museum. They also have a terrific collection.
Great Henry Moore sculptures, a terrific art glass collection, and two excellent current exhibits...
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Fish Finder
Social climber
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Nice Neebss
Ive seen a lot of your work over the years
@ YCA art Auction
recently @ Blitzo memorial
and many others elsewhere
I must say your latest of mouse sure is generous in youth lol
I carve some crystals as a medium but they are hard to photograph
I will try to post some up
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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And yesterday we went to LACMA. I haven't really warmed up to LACMA yet, but I'm sure I will.
They have a special exhibit going on about the dresses of Diane Von Furstenberg. That was fun for 10 minutes of psychedelic browsing at the end of our visit:
(Sigh... photo upload not working right now...)
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Fish Finder
Social climber
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There are some great art walks all along the California coast
Santa Barbara has a great one with a brunch at the Biltmore
so many to mention , I wont
Phylp
you may have already been but either Getty and MOMA should be on the list
Edit: i did some design and printing for a neon artist once who had a show at LACMA, trippy I know what you mean about warming up to it
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Fish Finder, we heard about one at Laguna Beach...
will start going to these beach side events eventually.
Thanks for the tip. I love Santa Barbara, will get up there at some point.
Phyl
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, phylp... wow, thanks for a very different interesting share...
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, fishfinder... wow, hope you can post the stuff soon...
would love to see it...
i am so much hoping to get to master the portraits, for me, they can be hard, as, no matter what i do, i get 'face warp' as to the OUTTER edges... ONCE i get the that, it goes better...
many times i use tiny photos that have 'caught my fancy'... the last pic of mouse and his niece, was a very nice photo, to start with... :)
i have just finished two more, but one has NOT gotten to its NEW HOME yet, as, i had (yet again) a wrong address..., so far, folks twice, have moved--i usually go by this: christmas cards do not come back, so they have not moved, ;))
here is one of the new ones...
edit:
it's darker, though, like this:
had to use photo shop here for the darkness:
thanks for sharing, fish finder... i'm sure trying with faces... i liked my deer shed painting, and my horse and birds, very much!
im' getting the faces, closer, each time, i try! :)
some get though, but i learn so much... i really enjoy it! though!
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Fish Finder
Social climber
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is that Pat Sajak and Vanna White ? LOL
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, wow... so funny, fish finder, ;)
say, all, just found this, now that i can see videos, to watch:
this is a collection of peder monsted, i had never seen his work...
nice danish stuff... outside family'ish homes and some great outdoors, fields, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqm4YS9x7-4
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 14, 2014 - 12:36am PT
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hey there, say, this just in.... sounded like fun... neat share, did anyone get to go?
:)
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north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 14, 2014 - 10:37am PT
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It's not till next weekend, April 19-20. So there's still hope.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 14, 2014 - 01:57pm PT
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Fish Finder, I found your comment to be funny! "generous with youth lol" HA! I have no wrinkles in my brow, just suggestions. neebee is very kind...
MtnMun, I really like your idealized river squiggles, really I do.
I got to be a docent at our history museum Saturday. It's been a while since I have done this. I was on my game, though. I took photos of the museum's new exhibit, which combines art with science, the art and science of Laura Cunningham, called A State of Change: California's Forgotten Landscapes. (Named for the book she wrote.)
There is some of her original work, framed, in place, along with other replications of the art in her book. I am only showing the art that she carted up here to display. This is about the art, not the history.
Images:
This exhibit will be in place at the Merced County Courthouse Museum until April 19th, this week.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Apr 14, 2014 - 04:48pm PT
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Getting ready for Open Studios in the fall.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Apr 14, 2014 - 09:25pm PT
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Justin, I unfortunately can't make that event, as I'm camping also, and then committed to help my sons' with an all day car wash and bake sale fundraiser for their high school robotics team.
Great additions to the thread, Paul, mouse, neebs and all!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 15, 2014 - 11:01am PT
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hey there say, paul... wow, i love that tree... :)
well, one of these is supposed to be a surprise, so i hope the gift'ee, will not pop in here and see it yet, :))
but, her other one, will still be a surprise, at least...
as, it is not quite done, yet, but will be, tonight...
this goes to the gal in yellow for gift for pursuing her diploma (after a small detour)... it is of her and her mom... they were proud of her for not giving up...
well, all for now... :)
sleep time, :O
:)
you may not see this, ?? since it is on facebook... could not get it to
work on youtube, due to all kind of videos showing up on my page... i thought it would be a blank page, for us, when we keep it unlisted...
so i took it down... :)
well, let's see if this works, :)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202952945016858&set=vb.1600565147&type=2&theater
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 16, 2014 - 01:44am PT
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hey there say, ... okay... testing...
THIS IS SUPPOSED to work, even if you do not have facebook,
so please let me know...
see IF this will work from this 'share link'... made this for my mommy... and wish that my daddy had been able to see it, now, :(
here you go, for the art lovers, here... :)
wanted spunkier paino, but--had to use the 'generic upload' stuff, :)
so it is a little bit 'slow to boring' unless you SIT AND have a cup of coffee or tea... or fine wine, :)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202952945016858&l=3338531042621918253
mouse, wow, wonderful shares, from, your artist-find, of Laura Cunningham
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 19, 2014 - 10:42am PT
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hey there say... just got two more done... will share this one, now... it is a friend's peking duck...
hope she can sell it for a funds for her critter rescue... :)
then, will post the other in the afternoon... am too tired to add the
WHISKERS and leash to it now, :O
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Apr 19, 2014 - 02:18pm PT
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"Vision" Oil on Canvas 36"x48"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 19, 2014 - 02:37pm PT
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A rescued duck? That's a twist!
My favorite artist and over-achiever,
A true Jesus believer, her eyes don't deceive her.Sharp-eyed lady of the north land.
That was an exceptional display on that link, neebee...and it actually worked!
Thanks for all the memories of my family!!!!
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Apr 19, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
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I posted this on another thread. It's an original image that comes up in my investigations of certain contours in the complex plane - an overlap of math and art. Not a fractal!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 19, 2014 - 09:19pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... thanks...
remember, the SLIDE show is IN ORDER of works, so,
i did not set them up very artistically, :))
oh and say, so funny...
lady of the northland...
though, i as a lady of the westland...
and then a lady of the southland...
oh my...
sure hope i do not have to MOVE and be
a lady of the eastland... ;))
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 19, 2014 - 09:20pm PT
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hey there say, jgill...wow, you knowwwww... sometimes, it SEEMS that such type images, etc, are ON TURTLE shells...
wow, thanks for sharing...
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 21, 2014 - 03:09am PT
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hey there say, all...
just got this done, for to go with the other 'cat on leash' gift...
so cute, i loved this photo soooo much, for the painting, i put the blue tints in it, though... :)
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The Lisa
Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
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Apr 24, 2014 - 10:03pm PT
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I should post this on the "Neebee appreciation thread" too.
These two beautiful paintings arrived today and I know exactly where to hang them. Thank you, Neebee, dear. I own very little original art but now my collection is growing.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 25, 2014 - 12:03am PT
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hey there say, the lisa... wow, and with your daddy's CAT painting too, they will feel right at home!!!
house is not a home, you know--as the ol' saying goes--unless you have a cat... or more, as some of us may add... ;)
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Apr 28, 2014 - 06:44pm PT
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Recent production.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... well, this was one sent out, a bit ago, but i THINK i can share it now, since 'he' does not peek at the art thread, i think, :))
did not want to ruin a surprise, but, it was such fun to do, and one of my larger ones, that i think i will share it now...
and, my others are not done yet, so this will encourage me that YES--THEY REALLY WILL GET done, i just have those wonderful little 'high hurdles' for a few of them...
some are not as little as i think, :))
though, i have no 'dead line' for them and could very well make them go on for a years, etc, but then--my eyes-of-inspiration are too full of ideas, so, i'd sure be packed in here, if i did not work to get these
inspirations done and 'headed up and moved out' as they say, on the ol' cattle trails...
this is my 'life trail' :)
well, back to work, if i get ONE done, i can surely get ANOTHER done--my
'motto' ...however, it gets more complex when HOPEFULLY there will be a garden to work on... however, it's been too cold and rainy...
so, the art trail, looks better... :)
*am not too good at hands, yet, but i am getting there... :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... wow! ron kauk did a great pic there... thanks for sharing... i love the colors...
:)
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Lolli! Thanks for posting those. I really like them.
phyl
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all...
just trying to decide ... but this has been fun to do...
still working with the hair, but--
it is nice to have a larger size face to work with and
hair that really shows up...
only had about 2 others, similar to this in size...
better than the tiny faces, :)
that are hard to fine-tune...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... just went down though the recent pics on flames, again... say, that one of pablo, on the sidewalk is very very nice... the bluish grays and all the pics on the window... all goes together very 'extra' well... his clothes, too, ... the whole thing, very nice!
ohm and the TILES, too and the light hitting them...
and the shadow... :)
right time, right place, job well done!
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Having a show at Holton Gallery in Emeryville... check it out if you're in the area.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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[youtube=http://youtu.be/rgucKdpP1Aw]
My 1st attempt to embed what amounts to a bit over 1 min. of digital art video. "...if @ 1st you don't succ33d, cry in time again..."
Anyway, Artist's credits as shown on the ending titles. This was co-opted from a graphics text entitled "Metalheart," 2001 - DVD. Scandinavian in origin. Would be a nice read, but, like Playboy, I only look @ the pictures.
In an alternative world, I was an artistic one; printmaking, sculptor, primarily. My wife paints, pleine air oils....landscapes intended to sell up here, natch - Art School was quite some time ago. Somewhere along the line, I was waylaid and sidetracked.
I used to be a writer, too, until Zen. Overliberated, as they say. Hogwash!
I'll root around for whatever images I can, w/o regard to our respective websites. Which, of course, would be mistaken for shameless commercial posturing.
1st time I've logged onto this thread. I am extremely impressed with our localized talent squad, to say nothing of the tastes of our collectors.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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I posted this on another thread. It's an original image that comes up in my investigations of certain contours in the complex plane - an overlap of math and art.
Dear Professor Gill,
"Here we are discussing the existence of God, and you want to know 'When do we eat?'"
-Henry Miller, Nexus
PS: This could be a good tagline to my yet unposted thread, in which a similar conclusion was derived by purely anthropomorphic field research, which, to my surprise, yielded orthographic results. If that makes any sense,
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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http://blog.glenngissler.com/2014/01/15/secrets-of-new-york-soho/lighting-field-walter-demaria-1-walter/
The Lightning Field
Art
//Directions
The Lightning Field is a land art work in Catron County, New Mexico, by sculptor Walter De Maria. It consists of 400 stainless steel poles with solid, pointed tips, arranged in a rectangular 1 mile × 1 kilometre grid array. Wikipedia
Address: Pie Town, NM 87827
Created: 1977//
I'm afraid you will either have to paste the URL in your browser, or, just try double clicking in this text box, if you wish to view this landmark Earthwork (no pun). It's so hard to cut/paste copywritten Art images that I couldn't even transfer some of my own wife's website images. I guess she'll just have to email me some jpg file direct.
Obviously, my insommnia's acting up tonight.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Thanks for the new contributions and welcome to This Just In's great "Art" thread, KabalaArch. IMHO one of the best off topic threads on the Taco, and not even that off-topic since it features stuff made by so many forum members.
Congrats on the show, Paul, hope it goes well.
Continuing my exploration of Museums in my new area...
We went a few weeks ago to the Huntington Gardens and Library. What a phenomenal place! We went rather late in the day and spent most of our time in the amazing gardens, so only had a little while to look at art in the American Museum.
Here are a few of my favorites. Sorry about the quality, no flash allowed:
Argh! Uploading issues again...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, phylp... wow, i love hearing about your museum tours...
say, also, paul, will you have any gallery shares, in calif, during june?
also, phylp... loving gardening from my mom and art, as well, it is a hard decision, at times to know where to spend more time, in such cases as you mentioned:
garden or art... oh my, :)
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Hey Phylp, what a coincidence we were just down at the Huntington a few weeks ago as well. You are absolutely right what a place. The gardens and the collections are really just spectacular! Honestly I was shocked at how beautiful everything was. I recommend it to everyone.
Will be in a landscape show at the Art League in Santa Cruz at the beginning of June... looking forward to it.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 15, 2014 - 10:11pm PT
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hey there say, naitch... oooo, i love stained glass, thanks for sharing...
say, paul? perhaps for what dates, please...
well, got this done now--
is for mouse to give to someone... don't know who she is, but he took this NEAT photo of her, minus the holiday stuff in the background and i just had to try to do some art with the neat photo...
:)
edit:
paul, just sent you an email...
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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May 15, 2014 - 10:31pm PT
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On behalf of Mouster and his Ronnie Kauk image or "from a Ron Kauk photo".
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 30, 2014 - 02:36am PT
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hey there say, all...
this just got to its new home...
oil on canvas...
and, BELOW:
did this acrylic, though, it is not very advanced art,
was just a simple paint-do, for a fast gift to someone in town...
i should have spent more time and made it very nice, but--
i was not sure when i'd get over there again, and it was more for a nice
memory, etc...
acrylics, small, on a paint-board type material:
photo came out too blury, :(
about the only really good art, here is the ground, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Doctor D.R., PhD, and Peter Haan, keeper of the truth.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 15, 2014 - 08:33pm PT
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hey there say, paul... oh my... was so close, yet so far...
we had to drive back over the hill, with my mom, along too, ... sis was so tired and had to drive back OVER the highway 17... so we just could not even manage a short visit...
someday... :)
thanks for being open to share...
we had a lot of busy hours with my grandkids, and early hours, as well...
was a miracle trip, my SECOND, since my daddy died...
it is actually a 'piece of artwork' all its own:
seeing family again, after so many years...
:)
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Jun 15, 2014 - 09:15pm PT
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A couple of larger works from this year.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 15, 2014 - 09:50pm PT
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hey there say, bc.... WONDERFUL!!! THANKS for sharing, thanks so much!
i like the first one, with the pastel blues... :)
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jun 15, 2014 - 10:31pm PT
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BC, so beautiful!
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jun 15, 2014 - 10:42pm PT
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Beautiful BC.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Jun 16, 2014 - 01:23pm PT
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This is an example of the bronze sculptures which Berkeley Artist Harold Persico Paris was busy producing during the early 1970's. I was trying to post it from the Web, unsuccessfully at first; hopefully this time it'll stick.
I was one of his students of these years conscripted to help out with some of the tedious but necessary tasks necessary to create and refine the finished forms. Along the way, I received a piece similar to the work shown in this photo; about 6” x 3-1/2” x 1-1/2”.
Some of his pieces of the series where quite spacious, perhaps 48” square, with a height of up to 16”.
During this period, Harold was also busy with his series of “Souls.” Each was uniformly sized at about 8” x 10” x 3/8” thickness, and cast from phosphorescent luminous silicone. When the display lighting was directed upon a collection of “Souls,” their color palate appeared in neutral earthtones. Lights out, though, and the effect was a dazzling array of neon aqua; radioactive magenta – not unlike ultraviolet effects, but considerably more sophisticated.
His “Environmental Sculpture” redefined my Art experience. What was perhaps the finest of this series was included at the University Art Museum's Retrospective, about 1973:
An object resembling a pavilion or a black box 8' x 9' x 8' hgt was approached between, well, velvet ropes. While in a short queue, we were instructed to remove our shoes.
Now it's my turn, and I step through black curtains as if entering a photo darkroom lab. Somewhat ahead and left, a shimmering image appears. As it is approached, it is evident the image is not the poster-sized I'd apprehended at first glimpse – no, it's more like a full length mirror. And there's some depth, it appears after a time, to the tableaux, as if I were looking at a hologram composition of black and white and which, on second glance, may be more of a brushed stainless steel at the bottom, black vulcanized rubber; very stark accent light throwing everything into a brilliant contrast...yet the light source itself is nowhere to be seen.
I must have stood, gazing through what I'd thought was a window out onto a surreal diorama, for a few minutes, before I realized that I was standing on the threshold of a room, stainless steel floor – I was to enter this room and to interact with it.
Impossible to photograph, much less articulate in a wall of text, which I'll stop while I'm still ahead, other than to say that Harold, and his work, were certainly ahead of their time.
Sadly, Harold passed in 1977. Lots of dangerous chemicals; solvents; “aromatic hydrocarbons” involved in casting, printmaking. He was 50.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 23, 2014 - 01:18pm PT
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hey there say, had lots of fun doing these and they are out into their new homes now...
one was fun, due to the scenery, and different greens...
and happy couple, of course...
and the other one was fun, due to the challenge of the flowers, that, i can easily turn into a mess, :))
and the different background and fun dress...
and of course, the 'happy newly weds' :)
now, i am working on a portrait with rock background again, and sometimes, depending on what kind of rock, i just have trouble with the texture...
smooth, rock, not... just that 'speckled type' ...
am getting better with 'shadow on humans' but still have a ways to go, when it is so dark, :O on the faces...
and my great blue heron is calling me to finish it,
:)
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jun 29, 2014 - 07:26am PT
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KabalaArch, that is beautiful work and a great story.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Jun 29, 2014 - 05:53pm PT
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Well. Did we meet up in The Gorge, once?
Thank you very much, phylp. I was afraid Paris has gone unnoticed here...but, of course, this is a climbing forum; not an art gallery – except to the extent that at one and the same time climbing is a performing art, further, it represents the art which we've come face to face, and have tried to live to resolution - to speak directly - with the moment of truth common to everyone on this Site. Perhaps many and several of them.
Time stands still.
I began my own etching age 16, while at Mills H.S..as a Burlingame teenaged resident; in contact w/ Harold's clique. Began to audit Cal's Art classes as soon as I could drive; I needed Harold's press to print up the images I was producing in my parent's garage. Materials: zinc plate; dilute HCL; Pyrex cook dish; acid resist (rosin; asphaltum – even spray paint will do). Interestingly to my potentate biographers, I'd yet to take a H.S. Art class – it was strict college prep; for which I'm grateful!
I was only able to afford an 18 x 24 copper plate once,
The Fine Arts Dept is located in Kroeber Hall (also Athropo); opposite the Quad from Wurster: Arch; L.Arch; C&R Pln'g. It was a short walk to there, in other words. Besides, when they were to have builded this Brutalist, 9 story piece, it contained the ceramic kilns; the casting foundry. Plus, that's where Harold kept and maintained his Office Hours.
While I've tacitly avoided faux pas, such as posting up my wife's Art site; my own Arch. I will make bold a piece of decadence I learned while still at Mills, reading Oscar Wilde:
“...as soon as we were alone again he would begin, 'Well, what have your been doing since yesterday?' Now, as at the time my life was passing rather uneventfully enough, the telling of what I was doing was of no interest. So, to humor him, I began recounting some trifling incidents. And noticed while I was speaking that Wilde's face was growing gloomy.
“ ' You really did that?'' he said.”
' “ And you are speaking the truth?” ' “
' “ ' “Yes.' “ '
'” “ ' “ 'Then why repeat it? You must see that it is not of the slightest importance. You must understand that there are two worlds – the one which exists and is never talked about; it is called the real world because there is no reason to talk about it in order to see it. The other is the world of Art; one must talk about it, because otherwise it would cease to exist.' “ ' “ '
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Yes Steve, we climbed together for a day in the Gorge some years ago!
Your architecture work is beautiful. Too bad we never got to build that house in Swall Meadows, that would have been fun.
The RV has turned out to be much more cost effective!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Yesterday at LACMA: German Expressionism from Van Gogh to Kandinsky. Showed the great influence of the artists working in France on those in Germany. Great exhibit.
I could stare at this one for hours. What a master!
So gorgeous!
The commentary said that this was a transvestite singer at a local cafe
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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LACMA exhibit continued:
Isn't this Rousseau fabulous? I think it may be my favorite of his work I've even seen. Look at the expressions on the faces of the different members of the wedding party. Very sly. And the linearity of the trees juxtaposed with the people, making the connection, making the contrast. And the white bride. I just think this painting is clever on a lot of levels.
Vuillard in a kind of art nouveau mode. Lovely
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Pot fired in the campfire at JT with Josh flowers (flowers came from private property)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 10, 2014 - 04:22am PT
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Phylyp, those are some very beautiful images, I agree. Thanks for posting them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Rattner
I'll just say that I appreciated these line drawings by Abraham Rattner, which appeared in the 1956 edition of New World Writing, a ten cent paperback which has not aged well; so, in order to hide the reddish leakage from the cheap binding glue, I decided to use a reddish tint when I scanned the pages of the book.
"Closer to Picasso" than to Roualt. Hmmm... That settles it: I wouldn't want this guy drawing my climbing topos.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 20, 2014 - 02:04am PT
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pachoquitas@gmail.com
I have known Darlene and her kin many years from the bookstore. She writes. She paints. She raises grand-kids.
It was great to meet up with her again.
Darlene happened to be exhibiting in the POOL HALL. For shame, but a good crowd with some bucks.
Darlene shared some of the same space inside the BILLIARDS ESTABLISHMENT with my neighbor from Middle Earth, Miss Lulu.
That's not her REAL name, but she does live almost next door. We had a grand time tonight.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 20, 2014 - 03:44am PT
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DRAW ME!
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toejahm
Trad climber
Chatsworth, CA
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Jul 25, 2014 - 09:34am PT
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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Jul 25, 2014 - 09:55am PT
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My grandfather, Marcus McCoy ( technically the first, myself being the second, from my frame of reference at least ) painted this after his experiences in WWII. This particular work is much different from most of his other war paintings, in that it's focus is clearly on the warfare/fighting. I wish I had copies of some of his more abstract work, but this is a fantastic piece to me, regardless.
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2014 - 11:32am PT
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Very cool Kahola and Toejam.
Mouse, both Lulu's and Dob's work are badass.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jul 28, 2014 - 09:33pm PT
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"American River Bear" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
This was painted at the confluence of Pyramid Creek, The American River and a few other creeks below Lovers Leap.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 30, 2014 - 10:40am PT
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INTERIOR/MOVIE THEATER SCREEN
The sound of a film projector humming to life.
On the screen...The naked soldier thrusts himself hard against the Innkeeper's daughter as they slide down the wall next to the hole, where light flickers onto them from the other side.
The movie theater image now fills the entire screen.
The Innkeeper's daughter turns him over with force and looks down on him in the final moments leading up to...
CUT TO:
EXTERIOR/PARIS /NIGHT
An EXPLOSION.
FIREWORKS ROCKETS SHOOT up into the sky from HEAT and PRESSURE.
They explode out of the rooftop of the cramped and damp room that separates the thin walls of the red house of sin from the cinema. Above the old theater, now ablaze, the sky is blanketed with every color imaginable. As fireworks shoot up into the night sky over Eiffel's tower, it almost looks like the tower itself is blasting off, above the bright lights of Paris and up into the stars.
Steven Appleby illustrations from the finale of The Good Inn: A Novel.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jul 30, 2014 - 12:10pm PT
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Mtnmun, your work continues to amaze me.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 31, 2014 - 06:16am PT
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There is "that word" again, Dingus.
The last four pieces are in this exhibit. There is lots more. Swing by if you got time, it takes not half an hour. Main St. at N in Merced.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Phylp, thank you for your kind words. I thought I recognized you, and the Millbrea association; how time flies! And so did I, off that day's final pitch. It seems that Gorge .10c has always been the gamechanger for me, 'cause that's where I start getting stonewalled.
It all comes back now. Things were contingent on the FDA approvals, for an insulfation med delivery system, if memory serves.
I was retained later by an older couple, down the hill from your Pinon property; designed a Miesian Box which borrowed a page from you and your Husband's Music “conservatory,” with floor to ceiling Kawneer storefront glass, full width Living, Dining, M. Bed, mitre glass x 12 foot returns each side. Also unbuilt, regrettably.
As a Modernist, I thought you might be interested in some of the interiors of my “Avalanche Ranch.”
See, the exterior is a relatively conservative treatment, due to the well intentioned Greyhawk CC&R Design Guidelines.
The Owner's desires for the interior design was another story: “we'd prefer brushed stainless, plate glass, smooth finish drywall...you know – something 'warm and cozy.'” I took this cue to expose some of the primary structural steel, and ended with just about everything else under the sun, from some David Flavin-esque colored fluorescent strip lighting; to the Kitchen sink!
Plus, the Owner has a terrific Art collection which placement and lighting drew upon savoir faire.
Plus, a Site photo is needed for context.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Janice uses Utrecht oils, either on Belgian linen, or directly on mahogany plywood. Generally Impressionist, occasionally Expressionistic. Plein Air. Sometimes in the studio from memory; field painting is really challenging because the light keeps changing, wind with sand can be be problematic, like sex on the beach, from a practical viewpoint.
Locals and visitors to our fair village look to mountain and desert landscapes; when they are looking for an acquisition, so these have proven to be the most commercially viable here.
Janice was hosted by Black Sheep Coffee over the holidays, and was received warmly enough to sustain us for 2 or 3 months – Thanks to all here who may have taken some home! Some have gone to other Topians; the largest single collection is displayed by The Restaurant at Convict Lake.
There's always been a small local art scene, but it seems to have been coalescing over the years. Janice and I were one of five who chipped to to found a Mammoth artists' cooperative gallery: "The Upper Eastside." Marginalized, this was later sold to Tony and Paul, who, having a better grasp of how much a drop-in customer might be willing to spend on an impulse purchase, made a pretty good run of the show, moving up to North Village, with Tony on the Town Council, and Paul the Public Arts Commission chairman.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Working on a bunch of paintings at a time equals fun chaos.
Reflection
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, kabalaArch... wow, very very nice to see these newest shares that you put up...
and paul, as always, very fun and nice to see!! great jobs of
'please to the eye and heart'...
say, mouse, as to the kimono doll... i am doing a painting of my friend
from japan, as a little girl, in her kimona... black and white shot, but
told me the colors as best she can remember...
i feel inspired to work on it sooner, now, after seeing your dollightful
share, :)
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Likewise, neebee - keep us posted.
Working on a bunch of paintings at a time equals fun chaos.
Is there any other kind?
Nice Hand, Paul.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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I love that interior , Steve, and Janice's work. Thanks for sharing it.
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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this thread is awesome. MTnMun, fairly certain i have seen some of your rad works in person before but i cant entirely place them yet. local restaurants? hmm
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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If you haven't been to the Sorolla exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art yet - do it! The most fearless painting I've ever seen. Genius.
Give yourself plenty of time. I may never approach painting the same again after seeing this show.
Edit: The middle painting is large - 7'x10'! Many of the works in the show are very large. The bottom painting has some amazing brushwork. The highlight in the girl's shoulder is a single stroke of thick, nearly white paint. Bold!
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Some new work
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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KabalaArch, I sense a bit of Louisa McElwain in Janice's work. Very nice.
She did large plein air works out of the back of her truck, often painting with her fingers, trowels, all sorts of stuff. Wish I had gotten the chance to meet her. Seemed like a cool artist.
("...like sex on the beach..." I'm going to steal that line!)
Nice studio shot and painting, Paul. Reminds me I should be in the be studio now...
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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GREAT recent posts!
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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yeah bc - "like a surgeon short on anesthesia, the plein air artist has to work fast!"
Once the family took a roadtrip out to Canyonlands N.P., in August. Janice's field kit includes a painter's sun parasol, which needed to be augmented with the shade of the outhouse. Did 4 small studies of Moses in an hour or so, each one of completely different chroma to keep up with the light.
Why we chose August for Canyonlands is beyond me. We could have just as easily picked, say Badwater, and saved the gasoline! Over on the White Rim side, the chillun's and I did out best to make ourselves as one with the sparse shade of a 4 foot juniper while Janice cooked up some more work. The only time we could ramble were the last 2 hrs before sunset, and during this window I was able to conduct the entire family down onto the floor of Monument Basin 3rd Class - including my 5 yr old son - and up to Standing Rock for a look see.
Then, from the Rim, we trundled a large watermelon Janice had stuffed in the Cherokee at the last - Revenge was sweet! (and kinda sticky) Made a very satisfying red explosion on impact.
It's always struck me that the key to canyonland paintings is to somehow capture the air itself, and your work is telling in that regard, really good depth of field.
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Thanks for another plein air quote, kabalaArch!
Getting the values correct is a great way to sell depth and a sense of space in a landscape. Your Canyonlands trip sounds like a good one. Is there a bad time to visit there?! Painting in the heat is better than in the cold, IMO.
neebee, thanks for the links. I've see Roos work before. Would love to paint with her someday.
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lars johansen
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West Marin, CA
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Very interesting painting by Louisa McElwain.
lars
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phylp
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Millbrae, CA
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Here are a few of my favorites from my recent trip to London. These are from the Tate Britain. What a great Museum! The entire wing devoted mostly to JMW Turner was fantastic.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Here are a few from the Tate Modern:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, phylp... wow, love the portrait of the little girl... love to know that there are so many ways... it is okay to do them 'how one feels' at the moment...
dark shadows, etc.. or not...
pastel type feel... or deep carved feel...
very nice sweet stuff...
many times, i dislike some of mine, due to various parts not being how
clear, etc, that others may do ... i've seen many portraits that are like these pastels, and it encourages me, if mine are not so 'perfect in the eyes or etc, in some way...
they can be soft, light, heavy, shadowy, or however we feel :)
whewww... :) makes me less concerned that i am not progressing, :))
oops, forgot:
here is really neat link... like the feel of the various parts and how they relate...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkB1H3MGAJA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 8, 2014 - 10:18pm PT
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Nice Phyl, would love to see Bacon's work in person. Blake and Kandinsky too.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 14, 2014 - 01:16pm PT
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By Mary Selfridge, Texas artist (on FB).
I have this old print on good paper. Worn, creased slightly. I haven't any recollection of whose it was or how I came to have it,
but I think it belonged to my wife, who was part Yaqui.
I have given this a slight contrast since it's light in tone. It will likely show up better on the screen that way, I hope.
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Mtnmun
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Top of the Mountain Mun
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Aug 19, 2014 - 11:17am PT
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So much great art on this thread and the Salvador Dali Film made my day. I'm currently working on a Great Basin Streamscape in the studio.
Have a beary good day.
Feisty Bear sold a couple of weeks ago at the Truckee Thursday Street Fair.
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Aug 19, 2014 - 12:16pm PT
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Wow, Mtnmun, super cool. You are awesome.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I had this oak pose for me out on The Road to Hornitos.
Hope you don't mind.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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My sister was a renowned artist and art teacher in Phoenix.
Her focus was mixed media photography and alternative processing.
She passed away two weeks ago and yesterday, following her memorial, a reception was held at one of her friend's studio space.
As a teacher she planted the seed and helped countless artists flourish.
As a friend, partner, and family member she inspired.
One of her most enduring projects was titled "WORD" in which she photographed thousands of people mouthing the letters L. O. V. E.
The astounding thing about losing an artist is what they've left behind, a tangible window into who they were.
My sister was a remarkable woman who lived many lives, touched and inspired many others, and loved.
She is gone and will be greatly missed.
Her art lives on.
Here's a small portion of her work from her memorial.
Probably her best known photo, and award winning.
Thanks for looking.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Really fine work. Sorry to hear but thanks for posting.
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nah000
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canuckistan
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compelling work by your sister drljefe.
thanks.
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neebee
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calif/texas
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hey there say, jefe... wow, she had a real studio going on!... wow...
thank you for the deep share... oh my...
was very sad to hear this news... :(
ps for mouse:
yep--i do squares just like that one, there, but that
certain square was already half done, ;)
so i just added to the work...
(some of my recent things had a few from justthemaids mom, to add on)
since i had so much to do, and not enough time, on those occasions--it was
a very special way to make the quilt extra special)...
say, i simply love those WILD mice at your place...
i had some 'mice shots' to add on here, but i been going through
odd critter adventure here (not mine) so we had our OWN wild
time here...
oh my... still missing the taco, but slowly getting back in sync...
:)
say, ONE of 'pesky' mice is actually in my SILVERWARE draw, :))
IT MUST be wondering where all it's buddies are, hee hee...
will take a few pics of it and its adventures, hope very soon, by monday... :))
wow, and thanks for displaying my FAVORITE oak tree pic!!!!
ahh the noble oak... kind of a mama oak, really, everywhere i saw them
in calif, they seemed to be 'watching over the lands'... :)
saw a special siting of an owl, among some wonderful oaks, as well...
:)
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phylp
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Millbrae, CA
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Thank you for posting your sister's work, Jefe.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Sure thing!
She's pretty incredible...
A full gallery retrospective show is in the works.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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An original piece by Betsy Bret Harte ... The hands of her mother.
A gift, and a cherished piece hanging in my living room.
The most amazing aspect of the reception were the amt of students who attended. They openly shared how Betsy changed their lives...their love and respect for her.
I also noticed a lot of people found solace in the art studio where Betsy's art was on display... simply hanging out, taking it all in, or engaging in deep and meaningful conversations with strangers with a shared connection.
Simply beautiful.
Thank you for sharing your photos, Jef. ~
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neebee
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calif/texas
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Sep 17, 2014 - 12:52am PT
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hey there say, ... just got this one done for my non-climber friend, in canada... :)
:)
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justthemaid
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Jim Henson's Basement
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Sep 17, 2014 - 05:42am PT
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Wow Jefe, so sorry to hear about your sister. Thank you so much for sharing images of her work. The great thing about being an artist is leaving your mark.
Hugs
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steelmnkey
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Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Sep 17, 2014 - 06:15am PT
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Hey Jefe - just saw this. Very sorry for your loss. The world needs artists!
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MisterE
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Bishop, CA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 07:30am PT
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So sorry for your loss Jefe - her work is wonderful.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Sep 17, 2014 - 10:18am PT
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If you love art and are near San Jose this Saturday be sure and attend Anne and Mark's Art Party at the Santa Clara Fairgrounds. Mad Max meets Moulin Rouge as it is described. 200 talented Artists, performers, musicians, this is the best Art Show I have ever been to. Plus a couple of MTNMUN paintings will be present including "The Race" pictured here.
http://www.artpartysj.com
"The Race" Oil on Canvas 68"x72"
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2014 - 10:14am PT
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Wow, I guess that brings new meaning to Minimalism. Nothingalism? Sometimes I really can't stand artists. This has to be a joke.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2014 - 10:20am PT
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Just posted a painting I just did. It's above these words, do you guys like it?
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2014 - 10:51am PT
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Totally. Ha.
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steveA
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Wolfeboro, NH
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Sep 26, 2014 - 03:10pm PT
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Fortmental,
If that's for real- I would say incredible! I agree-what a bunch of ass-holes.
Give me an old master painting, or something that took some real skill.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Sep 26, 2014 - 03:17pm PT
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Drljefe,
So sorry for your loss.
Your sister's work will continue to endure, long after she is gone.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Sep 26, 2014 - 06:36pm PT
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Not far from where I live, a creative couple -- one a sculptor or "problem maker," the other a precision guy or "problem solver" -- has turned an old farm property into an outdoor sculpture garden, filled with whimsical original work of all sizes. Bedrock Gardens has been happening for some years but we just recently discovered this surprising and peaceful place.
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neebee
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calif/texas
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Sep 26, 2014 - 07:17pm PT
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hey there say, chiloe... wow, THAT stuff is really neat!
thanks for the share... wow...
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nah000
climber
canuckistan
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Sep 27, 2014 - 05:11am PT
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fortmental, et al...
while it'd be awesome if true, the cbc story is just very good satire...
if you look through their archives there are headlines like "governor general finally designates the pick-up truck as a national symbol" or "love struck pilot grounded after attempting to write message in the sky with boeing 767" ...
here's the original photo that was shopped.
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yedi
Trad climber
Stanwood,wa
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Sep 27, 2014 - 01:41pm PT
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Sep 27, 2014 - 01:59pm PT
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Cool Urn Yedi and a very beautiful glaze.
My painting "American River Bear" is the poster child for the upcoming Wild and Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City. I'm very honored to have my work selected for one of my favorite events of the year.
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nah000
climber
canuckistan
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Sep 27, 2014 - 06:21pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^^
hahaha!!
i know, i wasn't sure whether it was bullshit or not at first either...
most of the headlines on that show [which i've never heard about until now] are pretty close to the fence on the believability spectrum... you are sitting there going this has to be a joke, while another part of you is going who knows, it just might be true...
ie. the mark of some good satire...
hahahaha.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2014 - 06:26pm PT
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Hahaha, like you both said it wouldn't have surprised me. I still like your above painting or is it a sculpture Fort?
Mtn, big congrats, your work speaks for itself. Glad to see you get some recognition.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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A page full of dilettanti, I see.
One can only IMAGE IN, I GUESS.
You need more actual STRUCTURE, is my only objection.
Otherwise, it's a novel approach to art.
The following were displayed for sale at Oakdale last fall.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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River Bear made an awesome poster!
I've got a new batch of stained glass made up for Xmas. I'll get some pictures posted tomorrow when I get some daylight.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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I made a quick visit to LACMA today. I had to revisit this Mark Bradford painting:
I was so entranced by it. I looked at it for ages.
Then I went down to the second floor and saw this totally fun piece:
The kids were in love with it. You could view it from the ground level or up on a mezzanine.
Then I went down to the first floor and appreciated this lovely Richard Serra:
I wish I could live in one of his pieces - I find them very peaceful!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Good story about Tilted Arch. It does seem like a completely inappropriate setting. In fact, I'm not sure what the appropriate setting for that piece would be.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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It would make a decent snow fence.
No 'fence, Richard, you insensitive man.
Nicest scowl I've seen in a while.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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One more item from the 2013 Oakdale Climbers Festival, coming to your town this month in its new version.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 5, 2014 - 07:37am PT
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Iris Grace Halmshawhttp://irisgracepainting.com
This is a five year old autistic girl. Now I've always heard one of the biggest criticisms of abstract art is, "My kid could make that" but this kid seems to understand color and composition/balance more than a lot of artists. Pretty cool.
Phyl, that Bradford painting reminds me of your Eastside paintings.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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I've been recycling more old painted glass from busted up antiques.
Hands- remnant of an old family shield circa 1850s
Greenman glass with old painted bits AKA the "ED Hartouni Window";)
Tornado and vandalism destroyed church glass reused.
I'm kinda on a hand-kick this year
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, justthemaid... wow, i really loved the green window ones, and the blue, after that... so lovely...
thanks for sharing...
say, here is a FIND--will explain, as, i did not paint this, but in the
past have done things similar:
AS TO THIS-- FOUND THIS OIL PAINTING FOR FIVE BUCK, with a great wooden frame!!! i rarely buy paintings, as, i am very picky as to style, i like stuff that i would 'similarily' paint, as, it inspires me to think on how i would do these things, as well... (ahh, YES = 'similarily' that IS a neebee-word... i jjust love those kind of words) :))
and here is another of the newest ones i had done:
both of those, were oil...
one 16x21 and the winter scene, 14x17???
been very slow, on this new crop,as i was under the weather, a bit...
all the paintings are sitting around, in sketch-mode, usually by now, they are 1/4 ot 1/2 way done... feels so odd... :O
i really love this one, the snow came out very well... though the sticks were a tad sloppy--brush hairs not doing well--but i enjoyed many parts of it... think i will make a few cards, out of this... or try it in different HUES, etc... :)
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2014 - 07:26pm PT
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Really like the snow one too neebee. Great movement with all those poles.
JTM, you are a master at your glass.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I like that snowy vineyard as well.
I REALLY like the way there's a light in the center that seems like the sun, but it's just a dang light bulb, huh?
It looks similarily to one's effect, anyway.
Skip, gimme five!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 10, 2014 - 12:40am PT
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hey there say, mouse... hee heee, YEP: "ye ol' flashbulb" :))
say, close up, the sticks are bit lesser quality, than i know i can do, but, i wanted this gift to get out, and not do a year-long job on it...
though, for a "let's make someone smile gift" this came out quite well, and i loved doing it... :) snow is FUN to try and do in all the various ways... :)
ALSO--from what i make of the signature, that painting that i found was signed S. Hills... can't find anything on him... could be a 'mass produced thing, one article said'
not matters, as i love it...
did see many pics that are similar style and some have the same signature, and some it as well, but more 'precise written' ...
here is a link...
if anyone know anything about him, PLEASE share...
he may be A CANADIAN artist, too, one tiny notation, said...
EDIT: ACTUALLY THIS LINK ONLY HAS A FEW OF HIS PAINTINGS,
IT SADLY IS JUST POSTING PAINTINGS OF--HILLS--by various artists :(
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT85MizdU1C8AEHZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTBzamR2dHI2BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1FJMDQ4XzE-?_adv_prop=image&fr=moz35&va=oil+paintings+by+s.+hills
okay--it IS "s. hills" just curious, now, who he/she is :)
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toejahm
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Chatsworth, CA
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Oct 13, 2014 - 03:17pm PT
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Wow, some amazing art on this thread. Here's an acrylic of Pissarro I recently finished. kr
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 13, 2014 - 04:57pm PT
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hey there say, kr/toejahm say, THAT is really NEAT... i love the beard... and well, all of it! ... wow, thanks for sharing... the beard, is really neat how it 'frays out'... :) --the top hair, too, :)
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Oct 13, 2014 - 05:20pm PT
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Open Studios in Santa Cruz this weekend @ 364 Oxford Way on the Westside... drop by say hi.
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toejahm
Trad climber
Chatsworth, CA
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Oct 14, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
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Hey Fortmental,
I recall sometime in the early 90s Christo's Umbrellas while passing through Gorman California. It was definitely a moment of scenic enjoyment. As for music being the ideal art, I have no idea. There is a wonderful book written by Chythia Freeland, but is it art? you may enjoy. I've attached a dry marker, definitely temporary, painting I produced to brighten up my office. (it changes with the seasons or my mood...)ha
Paul, what a wonderful landscape...are you painting en plein air or are you photographing and working it in the studio?
Peace,
kr
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Oct 14, 2014 - 04:03pm PT
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Yeah, do ok. Also teach. Work mostly from memory and imagination occasionally on location, rarely from photos.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Oct 14, 2014 - 05:26pm PT
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OMG Paul, that is gorgeous.
Sorry we never got to connect when I lived in the Bay Area.
But I am enjoying the art down here near LA!
Phyl
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Oct 15, 2014 - 10:30am PT
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Thanks Phylp... miss LA. Lot going on down there. Really miss Stoneypoint.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 17, 2014 - 07:03am PT
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John Henry Hill. Not to be confused with Thomas Hill or S. Hill.
A noted engraver as well as a meticulous Pre-Raphaelite from New England, he accompanied Clarence King's 1868 survey into the West.
"Spring had softened the harsh landscape...lush meadow grass rippled in the wind. There were blazes of peach blossoms (!) along the trail, and cottonwoods shimmered in early leaf beside the Truckee.
"Here was beauty for a painter, just the thing to fire the enthusiasm of the new camp man who accompanied them--John Henry Hill.
"Hill was an accomplished watercolorist, for King had begun the practice of taking artists on the exploration...
"He was a devotee of mountain scenes, and preferred painting in the open air to working in a studio...
"Hill was to leave the survey after only a single season, and when asked what the scenery of Nevada was really like, he would quip with laconic finality--'Hell.'"
--Thurman Wilkins in Clarence King: A Biography
[Hill ended his own life much later and was sent summarily back to Nevada, presumably.]
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Oct 28, 2014 - 06:11pm PT
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We spent a few hours on Sunday at the Gene Autry Museum of the West, located in Griffith Park.
What a wonderful place, with a wide ranging collection, from "fine art" of an american western bent - paintings, rugs, pots, sculpture - to many film memorabilia from Westerns old and recent, to a room with an old western saloon, to a great firearms collection.
There were two special exhibits going on. We didn't have time to see the "Route 66" exhibit but we spent a long time in the "Floral motifs in Native American Beadwork" exhibit. WOW! No photos allowed, sorry.
Highly recommended. Lots that kids would be interested in.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 11, 2014 - 05:54am PT
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Watch the birdie!I've had this in my files a while and kept forgetting to post it. I'm not sure from where this comes, but I really like the idea.
Here are a few shots from the Yosemite Museum's display of local NA basketry, etc.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Nov 11, 2014 - 06:48am PT
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"Industrial Moose" Oil on Canvas 36"x36"
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http://m.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30033747
Crazy record setting auction last night. Not a fan of Warhol, but obviously some are. Two of his portraits sold, one a Marlon Brando piece for 70 million and an Elvis one for 81 million. Unreal.
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MisterE
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Bishop, CA
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Nov 17, 2014 - 04:43pm PT
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Skip is showing me how to do cloisonne - these two pieces are 2" X 2".
My first effort:
Skip's piece from the day (with foil backing - a cool effect):
Nice working with my girl and learning something new from a real artist.
Plus, the 1500-degree kiln keeps the studio nice and warm!
This is what they look like after the mounting on black glass and framing (recycled bamboo flooring scraps). Another piece by Skip - her most involved one to date (foil backing again):
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 17, 2014 - 04:58pm PT
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My favorite olde timey artist - dude was a trip! And what a trip to stand
in front of this by myself for five minutes!
Pretty sure this was a self-portrait...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 17, 2014 - 05:39pm PT
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hey there say, all... wow, so many new and such a variety of art shares!!
thanks, to all of you... i am limited with time, so won't go back and hunt all the names...
sure love the gene autry statue/museum stuff...
and the baskets, too!!
here is my latest... been in a 'stall out' period, and was mainly due to chores and the yard...
but will have some more, soon:
oh no, oooops, mrE... i forgot:
i love your new work! very nice! saw it on the facebook...
just saw phlyp's reminder, by her post..
oh my, see what happens when we are in a hurry, :)
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phylp
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Upland, CA
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Nov 17, 2014 - 06:23pm PT
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Pretty darn good, MisterE!
Reilly, one of my happiest memories is the week I spent in Firenze in 2013 with my artist/art teacher sister Marilyn. We spent the whole day in the Uffizi and we also stood in front of that piece. we so SOO much amazing art on that trip.
Phyl
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neebee
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calif/texas
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Nov 20, 2014 - 04:52am PT
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hey there say, ... wheww, good to back to doing happy chores...
just got these two done... acrylics... :)
off i go now...
happy good morning...
hope everyone is doing good...
we are good here, the critters and me, but sure is cold outside, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 20, 2014 - 05:33am PT
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Ack! Beats me how this kinda thing happens.
I was just now reading of Constance Frederika Gordon-Cumming, the Victorian era traveling woman who wrote Granite Crags of California.
She was referred to in a gender-free fashion as C.F. Gordon-Cumming, but she was also called Eka. That is bizarre in itself, but this is the kicker for TONIGHT...
Her artwork includes many views of Fiji, which is not Tahiti, but awfully close.http://rainbowrobstravels.blogspot.com/2013/03/pt-1-1870s-wandering-artist.html
This link is about her visit to the Pacific islands.
And this link is about her visit to California and Yosemite.
http://rainbowrobstravels.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/part-two-1870s-wandering-artist.html
You can google her all night. Her brothers wrote books on hunting in India and Africa. She wrote a love story about John Muir.
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Norwegian
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dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Nov 20, 2014 - 05:37am PT
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nice neebs.
i got me a little broke heart this morning
so a little Beethoven
and now your prints:
i smile.
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neebee
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calif/texas
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Nov 20, 2014 - 02:56pm PT
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hey there say, norwegian...
thank you very kindly...
love OF humans, is in the world, through the hands of many...
hard to find it at times, as it can be hidden...
but when chips are down, you find it reaching out...
we all try our hand at it, in various ways...
through art,
through cards...
through daring rescues, or just simple ones...
and--through stone lamps... :)
and through words to others, at the ol' taco...
edit:
oooops, had the word 'or' instead of 'of'
and--norwegian, hope that heart break gets some balm, to
help... you are of worth, so here's to you mending...
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Nov 30, 2014 - 11:51pm PT
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hey there say, all...
not sure, how to share this--IT IS A SLIDE SHOW, but not on youtube??
my collection update--in order--of how they were done...
missing about three paintings, only... ?
had forgot to photograph them, :O
by the end of this month, though, i will have ten more to add in, so
i will have to start making shorter videos, or,
perhaps do them by 'types'??
but this was just for fun, for to show my mommy... :)
HERE YOU GO (if we get it to work)--HAD TO use 'generic music' for the clip, but the first one that i made the slide show, as, had
beethoven:
*oooops, it is on facebook, so i can't find a way to share it :O
*will try, later, :)
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... wow, i know it can work, this way, but say, most likely only those on facebook can see it, right...?
i tried to find the more public way to share it, but was not sure where to find the 'changes' i can go look...
thanks so much, :))
say, sounds a bit like street-type cafe music, hee hee,
near le' louvre, perhaps, ;)
NOT IN, mind you, but near, :))
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 30, 2014 - 11:43am PT
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So there is this painting at the Vatican that was cleaned a few years ago
and re-examined whereupon they determined that it is the first depiction of
Carib Indians, or any native Americans, in art. Of somewhat tangential
interest, at least to me, this was featured in the Canal+ series 'Borgia'.
Hey, who doesn't love the arcane? I have to hand it to the French to
include this in a TV series.
The detail which I have lightened a bit in PS. The detail area is +/- 3"x4"?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 30, 2014 - 05:24pm PT
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hey there say... here is a few i am finally getting back to...
my oils... after the christmas card and holiday projects...
:)
and, THREE acrtylic dogs, and a gal and her horse...
got some more egg tempera stuff to do, too,
:)
and-- my mom's holiday gift, opened the door for me to get some
'varied' shaped canvases and two larger ones... :)
which--i already had some two buck frames for, from thrift store, wow!!!
:)
EDIT:
CAN'S share the dogs, here, or they will be NOT a surprise,
when i send them... :))
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 12, 2015 - 12:28am PT
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hey there say, wow, getting a lot done!
here we go:
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Jan 12, 2015 - 05:06am PT
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room enough in here for a
little river's root?
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toejahm
Trad climber
Chatsworth, CA
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Jan 12, 2015 - 09:57am PT
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Norwegian - I loved the stain glass the first time I say it, and a wonderful display you mounted it in.
peace,
KR
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 12, 2015 - 06:41pm PT
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Very nice portraits Toejahm. Great depiction of a climbing legend and like the artistic expression/style on the Woolf painting too.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 12, 2015 - 06:48pm PT
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hey there say, norwegian... wow, river roots! etc...
my mom would LOVE that stuff... and well, so do i!!!
wow, say, i was enjoying the flying brian, very much!
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 18, 2015 - 04:06am PT
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hey there say, ...
happy that i got my friend's childhood pic done for her
surprise... :)
added the scenery and background, etc...
it was from a black and white photo, too,
so i had to guess a bit for the colors...
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 20, 2015 - 08:42pm PT
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Thank you Neebee, I love it.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 20, 2015 - 10:08pm PT
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hey there say, jefe... you are welcome! i see your precious pup-dog, so many times on facebook and here, too, that i love little pup, so much!!!
so much inspirations, too, from your great photos!
been wanting to finish it for sooooo long, :)
>:D<
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 22, 2015 - 07:40pm PT
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At the Merced Multicultural Art Center, a new exhibit of prints on handmade paper.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jan 22, 2015 - 07:44pm PT
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Nice , Mouse.
Neenee, I like the work you did for Jefe...
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Jan 22, 2015 - 08:06pm PT
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A recent canyon painting. Rising Clouds, Grand Canyon 36x36
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Jan 27, 2015 - 08:49pm PT
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Somebody asked me to design a logo for their product today.
I ain't no artist, but I got after it none the less.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 27, 2015 - 09:48pm PT
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hey there say, ... nice share, mouse...
say, thank you phylp, i just really LOVE that little pupdog of his!
:)
(he has some really great pics, too, of this dog, really artistic stuff)...
(they live in such a picturesque place, too) :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 27, 2015 - 09:52pm PT
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hey there say, a very fast acrylic, just done one night for a surprise
birthday gift...
was fun, though, but not full portrait-proper, quality, as to face
blending, etc...
was very lucky to find an old canvas, with a hole, no less, and covered it
up in black, as, it was a black vase and a white egg, :))
made for good fog, though, since i did not have time, to thickly cover the black...
this is a daddy and his non-identical twins, :)
put the butterfly stickers on, as, one was to cover the hole, :))
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Jan 28, 2015 - 01:24pm PT
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Having a show at Holton Gallery in Emeryville February 7th through 28th. Drop by and say HI!
Holton Studio Gallery 5510Doyle Street.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Jan 28, 2015 - 02:02pm PT
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I just hung this wonderful 17th century chandelier, which is all original, with no restoration, of any kind. These are quite rare, and hard to find. Many early chandeliers were later electrified, which detracts from their value.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jan 31, 2015 - 07:49am PT
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Gosh, Timid, I would love to go to that exhibit on that day, but I will be in SF that weekend! Maybe we'll be able to go check it out later. Please post some photos.
Paul, beautiful stuff as usual.
Lovely chandelier, Steve.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 10, 2015 - 09:28pm PT
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Signed Don Aronson, '77.One of the Stoned Masters?
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Feb 13, 2015 - 11:06am PT
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Partially completed painting of the Big Sur coast at sunset
4' x 5' acrylic and ink on canvas
Waiting for the sun to return before I can finish it...
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Feb 13, 2015 - 11:25am PT
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One of the Stoned Masters?
I'm guessing James Ignatowski
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Feb 13, 2015 - 11:48am PT
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Different Iggy
Paul R-
Do you have a website?
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Feb 13, 2015 - 12:21pm PT
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yep...paulroehl.com or holtonframes.com
Thanks for asking.
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 13, 2015 - 01:13pm PT
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Great work Neebee
I timidly post an example one of my photographs here that I title "polyvisions" They are a combination of photographs that I have taken in California, Corsica and North Carolina. I'll delete it if it is not appropriate...
The rest are here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gypsyflores/sets/1401466/
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Feb 13, 2015 - 01:13pm PT
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Thanks eKat... you're too kind... I appreciate it!
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2015 - 01:20pm PT
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Don't delete Gypsy, post more! Looks good.
Edit: badass flickr link. Some great images Gypsy, I think the bird lovers would like the link on the bird thread too.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 14, 2015 - 09:13am PT
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hey there, say... wow, thank you gypsy...
WOW, and say, do NOT delete... it is wonderful here, to see your art...
am going now, to go see the link...
and to see paul's, too!
also, wow, ... lot's of wow's today...
did not know that L did art...
very very nice, L...
and all this:
from a simple title, given, by:
this just in...
thank you, this just in, :)
for ALL THIS, to 'just come on in' to our taco...
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 14, 2015 - 09:15am PT
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hey there say, gypsy... say, these are lovely...
i used to overlap photos for fun, but never printed any... was going to put them in a book...
my twin buddies showed me how to do LAYERS at a simple photo shop...
not as wonderful as yours, though, but i really enjoyed it...
another wow, here:
you have some very great stuff there...
say, mouse is an art lover, has he seen it??
oh mouseeeeeeeeeeee, where are you, today?
:)
(at his flames thread, perhaps) :)
say:
gypsy, in the OLD DAYS of REAL CAMERAS, etc... one could set up the
the time frames, to over lap, etc, and a few other things,
and one could get multi images..
is this how you do some, or, do you blend, as you said, your calif shots,
perhaps with the corisca ones, that you have taken, perhaps at an
ealier or later time, ?
these are really special stuff... just curious, as, i once wanted to
be a photographer, and had seen lens tricks, that folks used, back then,
in the black and white times...
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 14, 2015 - 10:36am PT
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Thanks for the encouragement. Here is one more...(one of my particular favorites).
To answer your question Neebee. I really didn't own a camera before the digital age. I always either used a borrowed one or those disposable ones. That is why there are so few photographs taken in the "old" days. So I am pretty much inexperienced with layering within the camera or "double exposures". I take all of the photographs with a digital camera and then I layer them in photoshop.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 14, 2015 - 11:48am PT
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hey there say, gypsy... wow, thanks for sharing more about this...
say, due to my twin buddies, i LOVE PHOTO SHOP!! but, i just do not have time to do it, with the art paints, and winter chores, :))
you have encouraged me to not give up, but to find time, later in between paintings that dry, :)
see you all soon! here, again...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 15, 2015 - 06:19am PT
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I'm here and I love Gypsy's work.
It's a creative use of her varied experiences and is highly personalized. There is much to look at.
Rather dazzling images, Gypsy! Randy would be so proud, too.Poet Kenneth Rexroth asked his friend and publisher James Laughlin in 1953 to help correct what he felt were poor representations of him and his work in some recent essays. Foremost, he wrote:
I would like it mentioned that I was one of the first abstract painters in the USA. That I am now a Romantic painter. That I have exhibited in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and several times in San Francisco, always on man shows. I do not believe in art juries & never submit my paintings to group shows. I have paintings in many collections around the country and abroad.
Rexroth had begun formal art study as an adolescent in Chicago—at Chicago’s New School, at the Art Institute, and with local abstract expressionists. During a sojourn to New York City a few years later, he studied at the Art Students League.
At twenty-one, Rexroth fell in love with the artist Andree Dutcher, whom he soon married. The two were so enmeshed that they jointly created collages and even painted together on single canvases—part figurative, part geometric abstracts—which they signed “KRAR.”
Traveling throughout the West—on foot, hitchhiking, or riding freight trains—the couople supported themselves, among many other means, by painting furniture and murals.
Rexroth was born in 1905 in South Bend, Indiana. He is not known as The Hoosier Poet, which is JW Riley’s nickname. Rexroth’s mother, an early feminist, was also his teacher, instilling in him a love of art, a strong social conscience, and a sense of the value of self-discovery. She was stricken with TB and died. They picked out her coffin together before that sad event. She might have lived longer had it not been for the strain of Rexroth’s father’s bankruptcy and descent into alcoholism, and the family’s dispossession from their home. Rexroth was left in the care of a senile grandmother who abused him. After his father’s death, when Rexroth was thirteen, he was shuffled among relatives until he acquired a permanent home with an aunt in Chicago’s tough South side neighborhood.
At a Hyde Park synagogue that invited teenagers of any faith to participate in cultural activities, Rexroth met Esther Czerny, who introduced him to Jacob Loeb and his salon. There Rexroth met such prominent figures as Clarence Darrow, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay Eugene V. Debs, and Frank Lloyd Wright. And it was in Chicago that the adolescent Rexroth began writing poetry and studying are. After serving time for a marijuana possession in the early 1920s, he fell in love with his social worker, Lesley Smith, and followed her across the country, ending up in New York. A literary omnivore, Rexroth wrote two volumes of essays on world classics. Besides fourteen volumes of poetry, he published translations of chines, Japanese, Greek, Spanish, and French poets.
Rexroth died in 1982 in Montecito, California. Author Bradford Morrow summed him up as an “American original, a polymath, a crank, a solitary singer.”
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 15, 2015 - 08:45am PT
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hey there say, gypsy... here is the only overlap that i have on file... here... the others are on the old computer in the other room...
most are horse-type countryside. tree/mountain, and, flower/leaf tree stuff, as, at the time i had just had the few photos to use from our block, where i walked patty ann marie, my pup-dog...
this was my upper window, and the black cat, think it is baby harerp-tyler-mercy (who is grown now) and the 'famous family use of fan' (as we did it south texas) being used to cool the room... :)
i DID this for a NOTECARD, :)
later will look for the others... and after the fundraiser, wow, you have encouraged me to make a few more, :)
thankyou again, for sharing this wonderful fun and highly artistic
treasures of yours, gypsy!
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Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)
Social climber
CO
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Feb 15, 2015 - 09:07am PT
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One of my paintings. 2000. After sailing the Bahamas. Glen (Denny) liked this stuff so much he made me pose for a pic w him under one of them.
Oil on canvas. I hand-stretched all. 2X3 feet at a minimum. They'd sit out on our patio for 5 days drying.
I built the frames.
Headed to Santa Fe to try and sell these beasts. We're broke.
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 15, 2015 - 10:46am PT
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Great Neebee, that looks like a lovely card. Windows and doors are highly symbolic for me and figure a great deal in my work such as this one:
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Feb 17, 2015 - 09:35am PT
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Feb 17, 2015 - 09:52am PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 17, 2015 - 10:02am PT
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hey there say, cam... wow, great job and to stretch the canvas, too...
i always wondered about trying to do that... :)
say, and wow, gypsy! ... my mom and love doors!!! i love windows, too...
this is so fun, to see how things one likes so very much, can overlap into the 'laps along shore' of what others love as well!! thanks for sharing...
will try to scan a few doors, that i shared with her, once and a few windows...
:) thanks again!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 17, 2015 - 10:02am PT
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hey there say, paul... just saw this so fast... nearly missed the moon...
lovely moon! on water!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Feb 17, 2015 - 10:26am PT
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wow you have to work real hard
not to get a compliment from neebee.
i'm honored to receive your neglect, miss neebee.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 18, 2015 - 04:08am PT
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hey there say, norwegian...
oh my, dear sir... not neglect... i just caught a few squares, here really fast... :)
and posted and etc...
somewhere, yours DID pop up in here...
i have been going overtime, painting and sometimes am half asleep here...
just woke up in between... :)
the pictures stall on my computer, but then DO flash by...
and by then, i am ready to stop and go sleep...
or, have moved fast to my FIRST thoughts, that i realized i have missed, by posting on something fun, :))
say, YES, please do share your art...
did you do this? or one of your kids?
the sentiments make sense, did you know:
by our art, we share more than just us, we share how the world around us,
has affected us, or, how we wish we could 'shine' into the world...
now, i am awake, and can share, >:D<
simple drawings, speak just a deep as multi paintings...
the real way, to heaven:
a good deep thought to share:
we must really die to our self-centered ways, and be like a
SEED, ... crack our tough hard ways, a bit-- :)
and the old stuff DIE off and our NEW stuff,
well, it grows into ' heavenly goodness' ...
JUST LIKE our art grows from bits of rock, clay, dirt, tinted media,
lead or colored pencils, and turns:
spiritually into heaven's inner us,
OUT into the earthy world...
touching other spirits...
very NICE share, in deed, norwegian...
:)
oh my, no dear friend:
just a tired neebee, is all... (have 30 paintings lined up, moving
through the ranks, and TWO fundraisers)
and i can't post these encourage type things that i love to share,
when i am not quite full awake, as, hee hee...
you see, i have this word-way of taking and sometimes it does not makes sense, when
i OVER art it ...
and my huge HUGE backwards, typing trouble ( i must continualy back track to fix nearly every word, and it is not done well, when i hurry or am tired) :(
(to keep with art, here... yep, i OVER ART my word in my books, too)
:)
happy good morning norwegain... you are never out of mind, or thoughts,
:)
check your email... :)
mayn tiemas my typings lokkks leki sthi,s o , i ustm xif it alot...
ahhhh, an ART, too, in itself, (last line fixed, as rest of post, is too) ...
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 18, 2015 - 04:12am PT
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hey there say, folks... just stopped by to share this...
but saw a note from a friend, and posted, first... :)
not sure if i posted it... forgot to take the photo and the gal, sent me
a copy...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 18, 2015 - 04:31am PT
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hey there say... okay... i think i posted these on the fundraiser...
they are about half way done, and today, i can do the next layers...
got a lot more, but not ready to share, and some are, of course,
surprises... :))
edit:
ooops, forgot, oil 16 x 20
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 18, 2015 - 07:45am PT
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hey there say, timid! this is wonderful photo!!! i can see it much
better here:
i saw it at facebook, and, that someone asked about the 'movie star' in shades, :)
give nita a hug, and thanks for this share on the art!
ps:
my sister in law, would love to comb that gal's hair, there...
will tell you how i know, that, later, :))
wow, got to get busy, now... :)
using the best of the winter, so i won't hide in warm blankets, oh my!
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Feb 21, 2015 - 10:33am PT
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"Long Vacation" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Feb 21, 2015 - 02:26pm PT
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That bear is going to be plenty mad when the fisherman pulls a fish out of his paws.
lars
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 21, 2015 - 03:17pm PT
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hey there say, lars...
hahaha, so funny way,
your expression, today,
well, not funny, IF he was real,of course, ... :)
fun share, thanks!
say, next, jude, we need the follow up, bear... bear grooming, after vacation time, and fish-removal... :)
nice pretty pretty blues!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Feb 21, 2015 - 05:10pm PT
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Paul, the show stuff looks gorgeous. Wish i could see it in person.
Mtnmun , that one really brought a smile to my face! Love it!
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Feb 21, 2015 - 10:36pm PT
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Neebee just artfully
outweeged the weege,
or vice versa.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Feb 21, 2015 - 10:48pm PT
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^^It was a fun dance - artfully played on all counts. ;-)
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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I wouldn't restrict this thread to just paintings. There are many major museums with the general title of "Museum of fine arts" ; such as the MFA in Boston, or the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts.
I'm a serious collector of general antiques; including paintings; but I also collect furniture, ceramics, metals etc. All can be "works of art"
I've been on a buying spree lately; since there are so many deals out there
to be had for cheap money. Here are a few 19th century paintings in my hallway; and a view of my living room, which is primarily 17th/18th century decorative "art".
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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This one's also in the show. Thanks for the kind words Phylp and Neebee.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Had some catching up to do on this thread - great stuff all.
I also really like your photographic contributions, Gypsy.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Completely agree, Steve A.
Thanks for posting your recent acquisitions. I've seen some of them on the "show me...building" thread too.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... more nice shares from everyone... very nice...
say, steve A... wow, love the artistic set up of the room and the paintings, too...
and paul, wow, the boat that you just posted has now become my favorite of yours, :) something about the boat, water and light, all together... i loved the row boat at my mom's old family home in ohio, so long back, perhaps this has tugged at that memory, as well, very sweet and very nice painting in an extra way now...
say, here are some i just did, to send out:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... here are the two fund raisers for tom gilje...
these will be at todd's for april 11th..
24 by 28, oils...
(horse photo borrowed from my twin-buddies)
below, photo borrowed from bob d' (if i remember right) :)
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Neebee your are prolific. Great work. A compelling story in each piece.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Awesome Lars, you are a talent. I love cutting edge art.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, wow, lars... say, you have been busy too!
i need to go over and see your web site,
i love to look at abstracts, but i just can't do them, as, i keep trying
to fix them up, and TURN THEM into something... like, turn 'this' into 'that' and a 'that into this'...
(which is what the viewer is to do, and we are to leave undone, for THEM) ...
like tami said, i am a bit folksy, ... like the mama doing stuff for the house hold, and making sure it is familiar to them... :))
thank you tami! :)
edit: wow, here's a hug, too... :)
>:D<
and thank you paul, i like the stories in art, to imagine if you are there...
say, lars:
this one you did, reminds me of ice bergs... or, ice rock... though the red, in the corner, would have to be iron ore, :)
very nice, lars... i am going to go see your web site now...
PS:
say, it would be very very nice if we could get pat ament, to share some artwork, here...
he has been sticking such wonderful work up, on facebook...
he is doing a lot of very great sketches--portraits, etc..
you all would love it... oh you would love it!
wish we could see some... i will ask if he might share some...
:)
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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"Art of Climbing" is long gone… but the art in the stone remains.. after we are gone.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... wow, i love the art of rocks... :)
say, tami... i was reading some things on art, just earlier,
you are canadian...so have you hear of her:
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEV70ebPlUYy0A.kcnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N25ndmVnBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwNF8x?_adv_prop=image&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&va=Maud+Lewis&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Lewis
Maud married Everett Lewis, a taciturn fish peddler, on January 16, 1938 at the age of 34. They were poor and lived in a small thirteen foot six inches by twelve foot six inches house. Soon after they were married Maud Lewis accompanied her husband on his daily rounds peddling fish, bringing along Christmas cards that she had drawn. She would sell the cards for twenty five cents each. After some success with this, she started painting on various other surfaces such as pulp boards (beaverboards), cookie sheets, and Masonite. Maud was a compulsive artist and painted on more or less every available surface in their tiny home. It was Everett who encouraged Maud to paint and he bought her her first set of oils. Lewis lived most of her life in poverty with her husband in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia
In the last year of her life, Maud Lewis stayed in one corner of her house, painting as often as she could while traveling back and forth to the hospital.
wow! it said she painted on everything in the house, :)
http://www.folkartlife.com/articles/maudlewis.shtml#.VPlwGS6ApOI
wow WOW!
Maud Lewis (1903-1970)was born Maud Dowley in South Ohio, Nova Scotia with multiple birth defects, affecting both arms and hands the result of childhood polio. Maud's disability was accepted by her family and until the death of her parents she had a place to call home.
After the loss of her parents Maud found herself with no home and no one to turn to. Maud responded to a newspaper advertisement for housekeeper. Maud did not have proper use of her hands and had great difficulty walking but this did not stop her from trying to get work.
Everett Lewis was a bachelor who lived in Marshalltown, Digby County, Nova Scotia, he was looking for a housekeeper. When he met Maud, he was impressed by the distance she walked to apply for the job. Everett decided that the best way to solve the problem was to marry Maud.
Everett and Maud married in 1938 and lived their whole married life in a small twelve foot by thirteen foot one room house with a sleeping loft, without benefit of electricity or plumbing.
Maud was not very good with the cooking or gardening and it was soon decided that Everett would continue to do these tasks.
From a chair by the window, in that small house, Maud started making hand-drawn Christmas cards. Everett Lewis who sold fish door to door for a meager living, was an enterprising sort of fellow and he started taking the hand drawn Christmas Cards to show his customers. Encouraged by the positive response Everett urged Maud to try her hand at painting. Using old discarded paint brought home by Everett. Maud once started, could not be stopped, hundreds of bright paintings of the things familiar to her appeared on pieces of wood, cardboard, bottoms of pie plates and any other surface available .
Maud also painted every available surface inside and outside of her house. A crooked sign outside the tiny home said "Paintings for sale". Folks started coming to the door and the paintings sold, most for as little as fifty cents or one or two dollars.
QUOTE IS FROM THE LINK, ABOVE...
WOW...
http://cassandraconsiders.blogspot.com/2010/09/maud-lewis-canadian-folk-artist.html
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... well ... back to work...
say, i love these:
i really like his work so very much:
andrew wyeth...
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2015 - 08:07am PT
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Neebee, you really have a gift at portraiting animals.
This guy below was my painting instructor at Fresno State. Nowadays I still see him on the soccer field. He is a super realistic painter mostly.
More of his work here.
http://www.nickpotterart.com/nick-potter-paintings
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Mar 10, 2015 - 06:42pm PT
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Matt J.
Trad climber
Castro Valley, CA
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Mar 12, 2015 - 04:07pm PT
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Thanks Matt for posting the fine illustrations by Christopher Hampson in your book. I wasn't familiar with the book - sounds really interesting.
And thanks to neebs for more links...
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Mar 15, 2015 - 08:01pm PT
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neebee- I think you've really found a niche with your pet portraits, they're awesome.
My sister Betsy had some art showing in a few galleries in Phoenix recently.
All work I'd seen before but extra special to see since her passing.
Gosh dang I miss her so much but her legacy and influence is still so strong- of course with family and friends, but with the Phoenix art community.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Mar 15, 2015 - 08:07pm PT
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Good to see that fine work by your sister, Jefe.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 24, 2015 - 05:05pm PT
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hey there say, ... another 'arnold' ... which was the name on some painting of hers, that i am looking for... (windmill) ...
well, JUST found this:
this arnold (not the one i was looking for, though) has his own interesting themes, too:
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVvI2.BFVHzoAiNQnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--?_adv_prop=image&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&va=arnold+friberg+paintings&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
http://www.fribergfineart.com/arnoldFriberg.html
(wow, very interesting life)...
dear canadians, here, tami, etc,
has anyone seen any of his work??
Arnold Friberg learned to paint horses when he began painting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the late 1930's for the Northwest Paper Company Calendars. To date, he has done almost 300 Mountie paintings, which has earned him a special place among his subjects. He is the only American who has ever been made an honorary member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In 1978 as a result of his work with the Mounties, he was commissioned to do an almost life-size portrait of H.R.H. Prince Charles with his great horse "Centennial", the great-grandson of Man-O-War. This was done at a studio in the Buckingham Palace.
TWO quotes from him:
"Art to me is a service, to bring enrichment to people's lives. That's why I want my art to be perfectly understood. One of the things I work for is clarity. That doesn't mean hard-edged forms, but clarity of the picture: what time of day, what kind of lighting, where it is."
“All you leave the world is what you’ve done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.”
wow, i never saw a collection of canadian mounties, before...
if you click on the yahoo image link above, he did many other things, many religious stuff, and american west/indian rural stuff, too...
THESE are really neat, and you can feel the 'ambiance' and feel the moment with their involvement with each other, very special...
Arnold Friberg
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 24, 2015 - 05:19pm PT
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hey there say, ... oh my... okayyyyyyyyyyyyy.... :) got to stop this...
sooo many arnolds... this is arnold nogy:
what a jackpot find! ... very neat stuff... very sweetly and specially done...
wow, my mom wants me to get back to doing these kind of things... now, i am very tempted to add some more, to work with...
wow, hope you can take a peek at these:
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVvbg_BFV3m0A_cgnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--?_adv_prop=image&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&va=arnold+nogy+artist&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
ARNOLD NOGY:
VERY wonderful trees/woods...
feels like evening is setting in...
WOW--such fun, arnold nogy, is another canadian, too, :)
http://www.natureartists.com/artists/artist_biography.asp?ArtistID=923
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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Mar 27, 2015 - 08:55pm PT
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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Mar 27, 2015 - 08:58pm PT
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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Mar 27, 2015 - 09:07pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 27, 2015 - 10:11pm PT
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hey there say, Sgropp... oh, these are really neat... love the door? latches?
and the 'wind up the column' decor, :)
thank for sharing, here...
:)
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Mar 28, 2015 - 08:24am PT
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That is beautiful work, SGropp!
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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Mar 29, 2015 - 10:07pm PT
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hand rail , forged steel, galvanized finish with colored wax top coat.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 29, 2015 - 11:51pm PT
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hey there say, great job!
thanks for sharing, :)
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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Mar 30, 2015 - 07:34am PT
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Hey, thanks for the comments.
The mindset from climbing can be a good basis for making it as a professional artist.
You have to believe in your process, not be afraid to start and the have confidence and the willingness to put in the dedicated hard work to to see it through.
And most importantly, knowing when to stop.
Definitely not for the faint of heart!
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 31, 2015 - 01:08pm PT
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Nice mwtal-work, SGropp!
Been re-purposing flooring, wainscoating cap and other wood scraps to make frames for some of my pictures. Had to teach myself matting along the way - here's some of the results of the last month:
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Mar 31, 2015 - 01:10pm PT
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Outstanding, MisterE!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Super, Mr.Erik! You and Skip certainly know how to recycle stuff into art.
This came floating down the FaceBook River and I fished it out, dried it off and have thought a little about what McKenna said.
It's from back in the 90s, but will always be relevant.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
The art of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and Ansel Adams created the Yosemite Valley of the American imagination (paraphrased from Alfred Runte's Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness).
Their work was used extensively by park concessionaires to promote tourism.
It was a subversion of their work, but then all were professional artists.
Therefore, not all art is our friend.
neebee, more Arnoldology for you.
Arnold is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calaveras County, California, United States. The population was 3,843 at the 2010 census, down from 4,218 at the 2000 census. Arnold is located on State Route 4.
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 2, 2015 - 06:42pm PT
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SGropp, fantastic work. Very professional and unique.
MisterE, love those frames. I focused on them as much as the pics.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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SGropp, fantastic work. Very professional and unique.
MisterE, love those frames. I focused on them as much as the pics.
this just in, exactly my thoughts...(-;
Phylp, Did you check out.. Timid's brother show?...
http://www.ocma.net/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Incomparable poster art from a bygone era used to "sell" the public on a visit to Curryland.
To be found in Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness by Alfred Runte, one of the best books I have ever purchased (used, nearly 'fine', and only $10, reduced to $5 after credit for books brought in to re-retail).
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2015 - 10:27am PT
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This is from a local mason named Hansel Kern. Not too many are in his league.
Hansel and his son. Think this rock work is in Shaver somewhere.
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Apr 15, 2015 - 10:28am PT
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^^^^^^^^^Coooool!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 15, 2015 - 02:56pm PT
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hey there say,this just in .... wow!!! as to the rock work, wow, again!!
very wonderful stuff!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Apr 15, 2015 - 06:07pm PT
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here are two more 6 x 8' collages done by an art professor friend of mine Ann Porter. Each student is given three tiles and has to paint them after she cuts one of my into 64 pieces and gives three pieces to each student. The students don't know before hand what the picture is that they area paining. They have to work together to make the edges fit. Each tile they paint is oil on canvas in black and white. The first picture is of Jack sitting on the top of the west face of Devils Tower. The second picture is Big Horn peak cliffs reflecting and lost twin Lakes.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Apr 15, 2015 - 06:16pm PT
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My son's always had the artistic touch, from a young age. Need to take some photos of his recent pottery and paintings. Only thing I could find was him playing in the sand. The turtle he'd made the day before was really cool.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Apr 15, 2015 - 06:52pm PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 15, 2015 - 08:07pm PT
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Wow! Such cool recent stuff. Justin that stone masonry is amazing!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 23, 2015 - 01:58pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 23, 2015 - 08:45pm PT
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hey there, say... more nice new editions... :)
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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Apr 25, 2015 - 06:41pm PT
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I need some help here. This painting, purchased from the artist, by my wife, for what I think is quite a bit more than beer money.
She loves it so I am perfectly content but I simply don't get it. It doesn't speak to me at all.
So perhaps someone here can enlighten me.
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Apr 25, 2015 - 06:50pm PT
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Painting looks good to me Dan. My suggestion is to not try to see anything specific. Just be around it for awhile. You may find it grows on you. Good luck.
lars
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 26, 2015 - 05:36pm PT
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We finally got down to the OCMA today to see Timid Toprope's brother's exhibit!
It's VERY interesting work. The photos really cannot do it justice. Many of the details are leafs, pills, and other stuff embedded in resin on wood.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 26, 2015 - 05:37pm PT
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Here is more of Fred's work:
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 26, 2015 - 05:39pm PT
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There was also a very interesting exhibit of artists inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement. As a feminist, I found much of the work very touching emotionally.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... just a new bit of portraits from very special photos that i loved...
*THIS LAST ONE, above, in blue, though, was not the FINAL
copy... :(
I THINK--the chin and face, still needed adjustment and the hair,
was 'too see through' (as it hung down)
so this might have been a 'pre done' copy... can't find the other one,
so it must have gotten deleted...
got a few more, later this week to show... still trying to learn, while having fun to send to folks, through it all... :)
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jun 10, 2015 - 07:35am PT
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I love photorealistic painting. One of the teachers I had painted in that style. When I get back to my home computer, I'll find and post some of his work.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 10, 2015 - 08:37am PT
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That would be a treat, Phyl.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jun 10, 2015 - 02:16pm PT
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Your wife has good taste Dan. Abstract art breaks art down to composition, color, line, texture and energy. Because there is no subject matter one can sink there teeth into it can be difficult to understand. Think of it as the lichen patterns you see in nature or what you would find if you pick up an interesting rock. It is a micro look at nature in all of it's glory.
"Abstract Expressionist Bear"
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Jun 10, 2015 - 03:00pm PT
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85th Annual Landscape show at the Art League in Santa Cruz. If your in town it's a good show.
Also Turner show coming to SF very soon... the 22nd? Looks to be excellent.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 10, 2015 - 04:15pm PT
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hey there say, paul... wow, thanks for the heads-up, on the art show... will let my family know... they get out there, at times...
wish i had been able to see some, when i was in calif, that time, :(
but--it was good, it turned into a special mom-sis day, at santa cruz, instead...
wow, say, mouse...i love that horse in water with the man... that is very speical and well done, so fresh looking, too!
and, i really like that gordon lightfoot one...
thanks for the shares!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Hi Paul, I miss the Bay area art scene. But there is so much down here I haven't had a chance to see yet.
We just went to the Getty the other day. It was only the second time I have been there. Again, my impression was that for modern buildings, they could have done a lot better job with the gallery layout.
We only went to one of the four art buildings. Spent most of our time on a special exhibit called "reimagining photography" or something like that.
Here are some paintings:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Good artist being exhibited here in Merced this summer named Melinda Whipplesmith Plank (and showing under the last two names).
http://www.whipplesplank.net/about/
Here is another link to the Chico Paper Company. Check the price on this piece without the frame.
I was amazed to see that after spending the late afternoon photographing her work today.
http://www.chicopapercompany.com/melinda-whipplesmith-plank/
Same piece, exhibited with frame.
I was highly impressed with her meticulousness. It's also good business to make prints, rather than selling just one of a kind and then *blink*, it's gone from the public eye.
I was working on my own with the help of my friend Eric, who works for the Multicultural Art Center while taking courses at Merced College as part of his degree in Museum Management or some such. He helped me double check some of the set-ups for color, but I taught him some things about shooting indoors, too. It was a profitable afternoon, I must say.
So, Phylp, it looks like you and I have been on the same page again, manner of speaking!
Here is the rest, and I'm holding none back. I hope your impressions of Whipplesmith Plank's work are as good as mine. Siskyou is such a neat old name. You never see kids with that name anymore.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... wow, thanks for posting!!! more wonderful artwork... love the chicken... and the egret... and of course, the TREES!
WONDERFUL to see all this...
happy good eve...
ps: oh and the dog, too...
and the redwing blackbird... saw one today, too, :)
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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That is nice work, Mouse, thanks for posting.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jul 13, 2015 - 09:01pm PT
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Donner Pass 48"x48" Oil on Canvas
After returning from the Southwest I was very inspired by rolling clouds and passing storms of Moab and Taos NM. . As a thunder storm moved into the Tahoe Basin I drove to Donner Pass to capture the cloud drama. Not long into the painting the hail started and then the rain. Controlling a 4x4 ft canvas in the wind and layering on oil paint at the same time is like standing on the wing of an airborne bi-plane and juggling. The following week I was back and it was no less windy. The white geese and red jeep passed by that day. I knew they must be part of the painting.
Why not paint these in the studio you ask? Energy! If I want to capture the kinetic energy in a landscape I have to feel it. "Donner Pass" pushes the limit of any landscape I have painted before this. Next I am being called to Toulumne to give painting a go up at 9000 ft in Yosemite. I'll bet I will have to climb while I am there as well.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jul 13, 2015 - 09:05pm PT
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Gorgeous!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 13, 2015 - 10:15pm PT
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hey there say, ... oh my, very fun and happy painting, jude, wow... love the blues!
a few just done now and sent:
one with tiny faces, so it did not turn out as well as i'd have
liked...
this one was such fun!!
have two more, soon...
but one is still in the mail, :)
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toejahm
Trad climber
Chatsworth, CA
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Jul 15, 2015 - 11:57am PT
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Attempting to better understand water, reflection and translucence. My ongoing battle with water continues...
Peace,
KR
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jul 19, 2015 - 07:58pm PT
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It was a beautiful day in LA today, between rainstorms. I went to the Hammer Museum near UCLA:
I went to see the new Mark Bradford show. These new works are in a darker color palette than most of the ones I've seen before:
I really like the way the galleries are laid out at the Hammer. Lots of good open space, and some cute touches like this viewing couch:
There is a rather small but excellent permanent collection too:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 19, 2015 - 08:39pm PT
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hey there say, toejahm... wow, doing really fine, there, with the water...
thanks for sharing...
say, phylp, thanks for sharing your art-day.. wow, i love the back to back, sofa stuff... :)
here are my last two:
one, by youngest sister, that was adopted out, when such was the common, due to down syn, and needing a 'hands on' home, and her beloved grampa, there...
this one, none of the colors show correctly, at all, and my photo
shop crashes for some unknown reason, but, it IS one that i did, so here it is:
and lastly, for now... this little cutie, must be in it's new home by now:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 29, 2015 - 09:51pm PT
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hey there say... just got this ready for its new home...
stamp fairy, is paying postage, she is a great gal... could NOT do this without her...
well, see you all a bit later, :)
getting the yard done, and ready for my birthday, :)
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Jul 31, 2015 - 11:04am PT
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Open studio chaos... hard to work with all the bad stuff happening around here lately... very very sad.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 11, 2015 - 03:57am PT
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From the easel of an old HS buddy, Dennis Pellesier, who comments:
"A painting I did for my brother's birthday. His dog 'Elvis' in front of his house with an ear of multicolored corn as a gift, waiting for the arrival of the next Van Gogh."
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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That "van Gogh" is cute , Mouse!
Here are a few from yesterday's visit to LACMA. The "Fifty for 50" show celebrating the museum's 50th birthday. There were one or two I loved that could not be photographed.
There is a museum staff trying to clean a handprint off of the front of this wonderful resin work. It was a tiny greasy print and I said to the guard "A little kid, huh." and he says to me "Yeah, those little buggers are fast!"
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 12, 2015 - 11:27pm PT
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hey there say, all... two newest surprises, on their way to new homes...
this one is private, public figures... and their dog...
a redo of andrew wyeth, :)
wanted to do patty ann marie, as, she looked similar to the dog, but will do her later, as, this was more important to GET it out and on its way...
:)
and this is on its way, a bit late, but i could not do it last year... on its way to help an elderly gramma...
well, got to get back to chores... :)
happy art work to all you artist out there... and as always:
WOW!!!! THANKS FOR the wonderful shares...
love the dog, waiting for next van gogh :)
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Sep 14, 2015 - 07:36am PT
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Enchanted Forest 36"x36" Oil on Canvas
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 15, 2015 - 07:01pm PT
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hey there say... just a fast sketchy acrylic, for a raffle or fundraiser, thing for facelift...
did not have more time, so i am thinking it is best for a raffle, :)
:)
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Sep 15, 2015 - 09:31pm PT
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My daughter's and my Christmas tree, two years ago. Death to the running dog capitalists!!!! All made stuff.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Sep 15, 2015 - 09:35pm PT
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Another. Beware, humbugs.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Sep 15, 2015 - 09:39pm PT
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And a final reminder (really) of what can happen:
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Sep 15, 2015 - 10:34pm PT
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Paul - are there any galleries with your work in the pacific northwest?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all... just sent this to its new home...
will be fun to do this in other colors and tints... it was a black and white, very special photo for a family...
i enjoyed this very much...
added some tints, but will like to experiment on it, in other ways, later... and, wow, the family just might like another, perhaps, :)
:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 10, 2015 - 05:23pm PT
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hey there say, had to do a redo, when this UNexpectedly, gave me the opportunity, to do it, :)
wow, got to touch up the eyes, :))
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Oct 10, 2015 - 06:07pm PT
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Oct 10, 2015 - 06:51pm PT
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Skip working on this year's star houses and pocket windows:
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Oct 24, 2015 - 12:51pm PT
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"Slippery Ford Bear" Oil on Canvas 36"x36"
This was painted at the Strawberry Tract Swimming Hole with Lovers Leap in the background. I am going to miss these warm painting days in the Sierra this winter.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Oct 24, 2015 - 01:59pm PT
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Gorgeous, as usual.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 24, 2015 - 03:56pm PT
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hey there say, mtnmun, say, wow, i love this one, as one of your best...
veryyyy nice, with the NIGHT TIME aspect...
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Oct 24, 2015 - 08:37pm PT
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From some mathematics I play with in the complex plane. It arises from a infinite process and I had no clue what it would look like.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 26, 2015 - 09:32am PT
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Went to the Norton Simon last week.
Damn, I didn't get the license number of that truck, or its 'creator', ...
I'm almost certain Norton Simon didn't acquire this. At least I hope not.
Yeah, I'm a cretin.
But, I do like Kandinsky...
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Oct 26, 2015 - 09:35am PT
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I've posted this elsewhere. It's the result of an experiment in pure mathematics.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Oct 26, 2015 - 09:53am PT
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^^^ Ditto. I hadn't looked at it closely!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 26, 2015 - 10:54am PT
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"Wandering Moon"
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Nov 15, 2015 - 05:00pm PT
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Went to the Fowler Museum at UCLA to see the special textile exhibit. That was great but there was other wonderful stuff going on as well. Free museum. Parking is a bit of a hassle - pick up a visitors permit on the way into campus.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 16, 2015 - 03:35pm PT
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hey there, say... some just finished for friends...
will put the other ones up soon...
:)
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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Nov 17, 2015 - 12:45pm PT
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Downspout bracket, forged copper
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SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
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Nov 17, 2015 - 12:50pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 17, 2015 - 03:20pm PT
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hey there say, SGropp... wow, i really love that lizard handle, :)
edit: ooops, or is it a mt lion, ?
:)
*these remind me of the neat things we used to find in thrift stores, etc...
special unique things, hand made, and from special places, back in time...
very nice!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 18, 2015 - 09:53am PT
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“There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.” Man Ray
http://www.toutceciestmagnifique.com/2013_04_01_archive.html
This website, toutceciestmagnifique, is just that, magnificent.
Check it out if you've the time.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Nov 18, 2015 - 10:52am PT
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This painting with frame approx 36"x16" is being raffled off at the Monterey museum of Art for $25.00 a ticket as part of an annual benefit show. All money raised benefits the museum.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Nov 28, 2015 - 04:53pm PT
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Today's art viewing was at the Folk and Craft Museum in LA. One of the special exhibits is works made from paper. Here are a few:
There were three of these large "rugs" woven of paper. The fronts and backs were completely different. Two of the same exact size were superimposed and sew at the edges. Really beautiful.
M. is included to give the size perspective on this beautiful piece. Here is another by the same artist:
This one was about 3 feet in diameter.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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My wife, Liz, got me an art table, and my son got me a sketch pad, last week, for my birthday. It's been fun to reacquaint myself with drawing. Here are a few things I've sketched out pretty roughly/quickly since last weekend:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, wow, mooser... very very GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
WOW! ... i can't do faces, :( i get them all out of whack by just
a fraction of an angle...
so, i always TRACE the outer edge and then, do my sketch inside of that,
after i have my anchor...
it is just weird, it always happens to me...
but, if i do non human faces, it does not happen, :O
here are some i just finished for gifts, around my area:
got TWO MORE, but will have to wait, until
they GET TO: their new home... :)
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Nice work, Mooser and Neebee.
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toejahm
Trad climber
Chatsworth, CA
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Wonderful Mooser, great sketches and what looks like a fine table. p.s.Your shading of MLK is my favotite.
Neebee, enjoying them all, and great detail work on the girl holding fish.
Here's a couple of my recent sketches and a copy of a J.S. Sargent.
Peace,
KR
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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SGropp: Downspout bracket, forged copper
If those are the downspout brackets then that must be quite the house / building.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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My neighborhood breakfast place had these three wonderful paintings of a split window VW at various locations around Capitola.
Susan
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Some recent paintings...
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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^^^ No kidding! Sheesh!
Just drew this one last night.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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...and this one today
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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My father's work; the torso is his, all the other stuff was found on his trips to Reno, New Orleans, and Las Vegas. He was a wood carver and sculptor; creative, persistent, and original in his own way. Unfortunately he was flawed and never achieved the success he tried so hard to get. He was an engineer at Boeing and was involved with the NASA moon program.
The negroid head was carved from apple wood that he found. It's my favorite work of his; sorry I don't have a better picture.
He got a strange obsession with Japanese horror masks and tried to do some, but they were failures. He was actually at Pearl Harbor as a Marine when it was attacked by the Japanese in 1941; when I was a kid he used to take me to Japanese movies in the Asian district of Seattle - we used to get rice paper covered candies and watch the sub-titled Japanese movies. Anyway, I do have some things to remember him by that are unique and that I will always treasure.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Thank you for sharing the stories about your father and his work. It's interesting to hear you describe pieces as flawed or failures. I wonder if people who don't make art realize how much work artist's make that they consider flawed or failures. Failures are not infrequent when you are not a full time artist. Most (all?) of my own work is flawed, but there was still satisfaction in the execution of it. I have some work that I did over 20 years ago that I still enjoy looking at, while simultaneously knowing it is very flawed.
Thanks for posting.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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I am visiting the East Coast. Todays "art" excursion was to a place called "the Breakers", an old Vanderbilt mansion in Newport RI. Very picturesque town, beautiful old houses. Saw a fantastic stained glass ceiling in the Breakers and thought of justthemaid. Too bad no picture taking was allowed. It was quite a wonderful old mansion, all decked out for Chtistmas eith many trees, wreaths and flower arrangements.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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Skip made a piece this year that I just love. HAD to pull the "Free Husband Up-grade" option, the mountain line is actually the rolled end of a sheet - so it was naturally occurring. Pretty, isn't it?
Edit: vv Phylp, her fourth weekend of five this coming one.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Thumbs up. Is she gearing up for her big Christmas show at the cow palace? That must be soon.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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You misunderstand Phylp, the art isn't flawed, the man was. I love the art and wish the man had been whole. The art represents what the man, if he had been able to shed how he was, could have been. He was flawed in how he responded to others. He told my mother that there was a personality, an other, that always made him chose the path of failure and sometimes he knew it was himself.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 12, 2015 - 08:44am PT
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yosguns
climber
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Dec 16, 2015 - 10:48pm PT
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Wasn't sure if I liked this one: my beach, for a neighbor who's moving away.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 17, 2015 - 10:03am PT
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Thanks, DMT. Yeah.
And yosguns...I like!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 17, 2015 - 06:54pm PT
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Thanks, man! I do like an interesting face...
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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Dec 17, 2015 - 07:51pm PT
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Yosguns,
Watercolors are a challenge aren't they, for me especially when describing form. I seem to have better results with a very detailed drawing first. If I don't like the outcome, and if the pigments are not dyes - as some are, I soak them in a tub of water and start over to save paper. Your choice of palette is appropriate for the subject. The glow on the Cathedral piece is convincing. Keep painting. Here's one I did some years ago of my Dad fishing on the Kern River.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 18, 2015 - 06:40am PT
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Wow, Keith!
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Dec 20, 2015 - 12:05am PT
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Lego Art: Nathan Sawaya, known as the Brick Artist, builds sculptures out of Legos.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 20, 2015 - 08:17am PT
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🔼🔼🔼
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 20, 2015 - 01:16pm PT
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^^^ insane!
Here's my attempt at an interesting face this morning...
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 23, 2015 - 04:53am PT
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 24, 2015 - 11:41am PT
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 24, 2015 - 11:42am PT
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Really nice work Mooser!
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Dec 24, 2015 - 01:07pm PT
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Beautiful show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco demonstrating the influence of Japanese art on the Western Tradition... highly recommended, works by Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse and many others from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. A real treat.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 24, 2015 - 02:43pm PT
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Wow! ^^^ Love that!
Really nice work Mooser!
Thanks, man!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 26, 2015 - 04:48am PT
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Last one for a while...I promise.
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2015 - 08:23am PT
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Don't stop Mooser. Very cool to see your portraits, each one is spot on. Great eye you have.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 26, 2015 - 08:26am PT
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I love seeing your work Mooser. Please continue to shate it.
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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Dec 26, 2015 - 08:35am PT
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A few years ago, the Seattle Opera recruited me to sculpt and paint a huge burned out tree for their production of Christoph Gluck's 1762 opera- Orpeus and Euridice.
Here's a 4 minute video of how the steel, plywood and bead foam substrate was constructed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mNnoVI4Ew
I enjoy collaborative projects, sometimes working with a crew of 4-20 other artists. This was one of the few projects where I did 99% of the work solo. Here is the completed sculpted bead foam tree. Notice the tiny scale model on the lower right center table. I had about 10 days to complete the tree.
Tree was separated and sprayed with Polyshield - a melted plastic.
Then painted to look burned and round.
Massive 45'x75' backdrops were painted for other scenes. This is an actual stencil over a muslin drop.
Kevin and Cynthia painting an "Underworld" scene drop.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Dec 26, 2015 - 03:07pm PT
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Awesome, Keith.
I love your work.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 26, 2015 - 03:39pm PT
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Keith...you are a man of diverse art talent! I wouldn't know where to begin with that kind of thing.
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Chalkpaw
climber
Flag, AZCO
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Dec 26, 2015 - 04:19pm PT
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A short while back I made a wish to someday see James Turrell''s Rodan Crater in Northern Arizona. I had no idea if that dream would come true, but it did with the help with a friend who knew a friend who knew someone and BOOM, I was there to witness the sun pass across the White Disk. Like many Turrell art installations, its quite one thing to study his work and another thing to experience it directly.
https://vimeo.com/67926427
and my own photo. Its worth going to this big big art project.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 26, 2015 - 06:20pm PT
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Very cool post, Keith!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Did this one this morning. First drawing of 2016, with hopefully lots more to follow.
Happy New Year, everyone!
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 2, 2016 - 10:15am PT
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Mindy has been doing some cool wood burning on cutting boards.
And believe it or not I started a painting. Been a couple of years.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Beautiful! I wouldn't slice anything on those!
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 2, 2016 - 11:21am PT
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Haha, she gave the first two away for Xmas gifts and both of them said they'll probably just hang them on their walls.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mooser... wow, really special neat stuff there, wow...
and say, this just in... neat stuff, too...
i love this fun thread...
am starting some new stuff...
but here is two that just went out...
oh, and this little gift... :))
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... also, kind of a challenge from the step grandkids, auntie... did FIVE of these acrylics... at once, oh my...
and will do one more, later for her...
she wanted to give them all to siblings, this christmas... they are acrylic... and A POEM was pasted into the empty spots on the UPPER RIGHTs...
me, i WOULD HAVE LIKED them better without the heart, but that
was from her memorial, so she wanted it there...
i should have planned better, but there was not time...
i like the PLAN better, with the BLACK FRAMED one, that i did a
cut-and-paste with, to cover the heart with the extra roses...
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Last July I started this painting of Tuolumne Meadows by carrying this 48"x60" canvas up Pothole Dome to a sight I previously scouted out. Here is the beginning of the piece and below the finished landscape which I completed this week. Generally I work on about 10 canvases at a time so they can dry between layers and so I can carefully plan them out and give them some good shoosh!
Tuolumne Meadows 48"x60" Oil on Canvas
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Dickbob
climber
Westminster Colorado
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Neebee's work is the best thing on here.
Just got some shots from my girls, who took a trip to Rome and Florence for the holidays.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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LOVE IT, Mtnmun!
Thanks for the photos from Italy. I spent a week in Firenze with my sister a couple of years ago and she was agog at all the famous people buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce. And seeing the David in person is a very powerful experience.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Neebee is downright prolific!
And Mtmun...love that!!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... wow, jude... love that greenery...
say, dickbob... great statue shares...
oh my... and as to my work, some of the last ones, i was not
so happy with... but they were planned (the group five-of-ones)
so the set up was not balances as well as i'd like...
i invented the flowerd lower right corners, and that was fun, :)
and doing the gift was sure fun, for those folks, as, i love them all...
but wow, i still got a long wayyyy to go, as to catching likeness, for
the portraits...
some work great, and some, i just can't quite get...
but i am progressing well, with my painting-parts, :))
hope to get some much better ones, like some of THE PAST ones, to add in here again, :)
mooser, wow, if i could get a likeness as well as you, i'd have half the job done, in no time, :)) (though of course, still need to paint them)
as to humans, i am always 'off' in the alignment aspect...
tried to solve it in all the regular ways, but it still happens, :))
:))
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Here's today's portrait. I'm not a big fan of the Vatican, but I kind of like this feller...
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Thanks, Tami. I appreciate the affirmation.
And I second your thoughts on Keith and Neebee!
I don't know Neebee, other than through ST, but I do know Keith personally, and he's a great guy. Both so talented, passionate, and giving.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Keith, nice tree! What a fun gig! But I wondered at yer mention of Gluck's "1762 Orfeo."
Was there another version by him? ;-)
edit: OMG! There was! I am humbled!. And me with Cecilia Bartoli's awesome
Gluck CD residing in my truck!
Mooser, ran into yer first subject at a theatre in LA a few years ago. Actually, he ran into me
so I asked him how Kurtz was doing. Yer drawings are SUPERBE!
And seeing the David in person is a very powerful experience.
Did you notice the nice benches 'behind' David? You can escape the insane crush in front of
him and relax and appreciate his better side. It is so crazy - everybody ticking David off
of their lists and you can go upstairs and commune with four or five Caravaggios, literally
by yerself, in total peace and quiet.
Since the thread title calls for an image...
Happy birthday, Medusa!
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Hey artists and art lovers!
As always, some great, diverse, and fascinating work here.
I'd like to start pursuing my own art again, as it's been a long time.
I'm most interested in watercolor, what a challenging medium! The few examples here are epic, thanks for the inspiration.
Digging through some stuff I found a few old color pencil sketches from 15yrs ago or so.
I still always have basic art supplies in my car, why don't I use them?!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, ... ahhhh, had to repost this...
this photo made it look soooo much better, whewww...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say...
a hearty thank you, to justin!!! for a neat little
surprise gift!
this is not it, i will photo it out, here, later, as, i just woke up, :))
but it looks similar to this-- the one he sent is from the
mono indians in yosemite!
thank you justin! if you see my brothers around, give them,
a 'hey there' for me...
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2016 - 08:32am PT
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Glad you like it Neebee. Had dinner with Mark and Jaime Wednesday, both are doing good.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Jan 11, 2016 - 10:36pm PT
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This afternoon's interesting face project...
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jan 19, 2016 - 09:10pm PT
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Rain room LACMA - FUN!
It's a heavy downpour, but whereever you walk, it senses you and stops raining.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Jan 22, 2016 - 10:49am PT
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I'm finding this one really challenging to get just right...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 22, 2016 - 10:56am PT
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Jayzus, only in LA do they consider rain art. Bet the good folk of Forks, WA would line up for hours to experience that!
Mooser, I'd say you've done him!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 22, 2016 - 01:00pm PT
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hey there say, mooser...
try getting it wider, a pinch, and not so long...
not sure:
forehead... or shadowing?
and maybe the rest of the face, a tad wider?
it looks great!! but said this, as to your comment...
i NEVER can get certain things right, in the forehead, and side shadows,
there, so i know it can trip me up...
:)
wow, you are, doing:
great!!!!
oh, and noses, too, are easy to get too long, or too short,
depending on how EACH of us, as individuals, SEE it...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 22, 2016 - 01:02pm PT
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hey there, say, phylp... LOVELY wonderful photo!!!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Jan 22, 2016 - 03:28pm PT
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Okay...I think I'm done trying to tweak this one. This drawing thing is gonna take some time to get down!
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this just in
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Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2016 - 09:22am PT
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Mooser, you have great sight and attention to detail. I am really slow at drawing and I always seem to be slightly off, but have fun doing it. Would love to see some of your nature and architecture work if you have any.
Here's a detail of my finished Raven. Well still needs an eye, lol
Going to do a similar background as the painting below. Weird, dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish, figures, that form flames. I just start painting figures and see where it leads.
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steveA
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Wolfeboro, NH
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Jan 23, 2016 - 10:53am PT
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There are a lot of talented people here on S.T.
My son graduated high school with this guy, Greg Haynes, who was a star runner in track. He was a talented artist as well, and I bought one of his early works at the local library, where he had his 1st show.
I'll never regret buying that painting. An example of Greg's work.
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phylp
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Upland, CA
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Jan 23, 2016 - 11:38am PT
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That's impressive, SteveA.
Nice work Justin! I love seeing work in progress.
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mooser
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seattle
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Jan 23, 2016 - 12:07pm PT
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Really cool stuff above! I'm not that "artistic," I don't think. Mostly, I just try to draw something as accurately as I see it. This just in, thanks! I don't have any landscape stuff, nor have I done wildlife (except for two pen and ink eagles I drew just out of high school). Heck, I find it intimidating enough just to draw human teeth. You'll notice none of my pics have open smiles!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Jan 25, 2016 - 10:11am PT
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"Tea...Early Gray..."
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jan 26, 2016 - 09:44am PT
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"Seasonal Bear" Oil on Canvas 42"x42"
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this just in
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Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2016 - 10:31am PT
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Awesome as always Mtnmun.
Thanks Phyl.
Mooser, step outta your comfort zone and try some nature scenes. Portraiture is some of the hardest to draw and you are excellent at it. I have complete confidence in your ability to be spot on with nature as well. Think you'd enjoy it.
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mooser
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seattle
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Jan 27, 2016 - 12:52pm PT
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Mooser, step outta your comfort zone and try some nature scenes.
But I'm afraid!! :-)
No, thanks for the encouragement, This Just In. I'll give it a shot, and post my attempt (though I'll be away from my drawing table for the next two weeks. Gives me some time to find a sweet photo to try to reproduce).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 27, 2016 - 01:11pm PT
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"Taq-i-Kisra in Iraq." Painting by Abdulquaeir al Rassam (1926)
Love this old painting of ruins in Mesopotamia.
Mouse from Mesoterranea.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 27, 2016 - 03:57pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mooser... just sent you an email... hope you can get back to me soon...
nothing serious, but a bit urgent, :)
happy good eve, :)
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Just PM'd you, neebee.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, ... ahhhh, i just got it... and sent you one back...
:)
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yosguns
climber
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Keith Leaman,
Thanks so much for your advice. I hadn't thought about soaking paper to reuse it. How does that affect the amount of water the paper can absorb afterward? Watercolors...are tricky. Yes. I wanted to paint a couple things inspired by a recent trip to Patagonia and went a more abstract route and incorporated some drawing on the first one below. Was aiming to end up with finished products that I liked, and I did, so that's a success in itself!!! I do love painting, though. I think part of my frustration comes from the paper in my watercolor journal. It's a Moleskin journal and the paper isn't very high quality, so I can't be as precise as I want. These first two were painted on Canson Cold Press 140-lb paper and I like that better.
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this just in
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Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2016 - 03:47pm PT
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Awesome yosguns, looks good.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, yosguns... that looks really nice! say, i like to use paper and soak stuff INTO in, and then use it for painting little cards...
makes interesting backgrounds... have not done many this year, but that is fun, too... soaking stuff into paper, as an extra thought... :)
edit:
hard to explain, but drop blotches, etc, of various
liquid stuff down and let them soak in, etc... overlap them,
etc... :)
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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I run down to Capitola several times a week. Like most locals I run right past some lovely art work.
There are several large murals throughout Capitola as well as extensive tile blocks on the low sea walls.
Susan
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Feb 22, 2016 - 02:31pm PT
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Mooser, you have been re-incarnated!
:-) Phyl
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Feb 22, 2016 - 03:58pm PT
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^^^ Yep...decided to go with my real name, per Tami's suggestion from some time back.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 22, 2016 - 06:51pm PT
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hey there say, .... ahhhh, tom, good i did not get confused, :)
but i had that bit of email--so i knew, :))
wonderful stuff!!
say, me, i am behind a bit, but catching up... most of mine, is surprises, though, so i can't post them, yet, :))
but, i am getting stuff done...
just got a lot more varied chores, than usual, so they all need
equal time...
and my piano is now on the list, :))
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 25, 2016 - 06:29am PT
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hey there say, all... finally got about six small acrylics done, that had been in the wait-line-up, tooo long...
CAN'T share some of them, as, they are surprises... but,
i might share these, as,
i do not think that the persons that i did them for, ever LOOK over here...
so i will take a chance... but two folks might, so i won't put theirs ...
hope these folks do not peek in though:
:
PHOTO is wayyyy too blurry... will try to take a better one, later...
these are not toooo blurry, i think... but, they are just a bit...
ooops, i just noticed i did NOT paint the cat's whiskers in yet, :)
must go finish that...
the OTHER two, i will share later... :)
THEY ARE BRIGHTER THAN THIS, BUT I HAD TO
PHOTO-- without flash, or they shine up too much to see...
:)
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Feb 28, 2016 - 04:29pm PT
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You're downright prolific, neebee! ^^^
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, tom... wow, awwwww, thanks so very much...
keep up with those great sketches...
well, THIS one just reached its new home, now, so i can
share it:
got one more, to share, from this group,
soon... it has to get to its home, :))
edit:
wow, got this cute little guy/gal on here now!
just got to its new home!
EDIT:
forgot to add this:
edit:
OOOPS, PHOTO IS FUZZY... :o
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Mar 24, 2016 - 02:43pm PT
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Whitney Portal 24"x30" Oil on Canvas
Two weeks ago the road to the portal was open and I could drive up to just before the campground. As I was one of about 3 people up there the stillness and beauty was awe inspiring.
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Mar 24, 2016 - 03:21pm PT
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Nice work Neebee and you too Tom Patterson. I bought a sketch pad about three weeks ago and decided to try drawing, after 40 years of not drawing anything and not being any good back then even. I watched a few videos on how to draw a cat did a few pencil sketches and then decided to try colored pencils, which up until recently I did not realize was a serious medium for art work.
Here are my first three colored pencil drawings.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 24, 2016 - 10:32pm PT
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hey there say, hardly visible... say, these are really neat... good stuff here, you know--the hardest part, is to 'capture the character' of the cat or dog... you DID that...
you know, so they don't just all look like the same ol' cats, of said-same colors, etc...
keep up the good work, you're back in the saddle!
:)
edit:
CAPTURING cat hair, etc, fine as it is, is a tricky thing, at times, too...
job well done... :)
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Mar 29, 2016 - 10:57am PT
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Latest cat drawing "Delta"
Just got a deal on a full set of Faber Castell polychromos can't wait to try them out.
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Apr 13, 2016 - 08:26am PT
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I think I am getting better, if nothing else more sophisticated anyway. On the first two drawings up thread the only color blending I did was using one color on top of another. On the Miss kitty drawing I used a colorless blending pencil, which is a pencil that only has binder but no pigment once you blend you can't add more color. On the Delta drawing and this one I am using paint thinner and a paint brush to blend which allows me to keep adding layers of color after each blend. On both of these drawings every area has probably six layers of color.
This is one of my cats Baker I held off on drawing him until I thought I could realistically depict white fur, both white and black fur are kind of tricky to draw.
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this just in
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Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 13, 2016 - 08:35am PT
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Excellent Hardly Visible! Great eye you have.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Apr 13, 2016 - 01:46pm PT
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Good job everyone. I am intrigued by your piece above Randishi. I would like to see that in person. Here are two new paintings in a slightly different style that combines old experiments and current wonderings.
Buffalo Cloud II 44"x44" Oil on Canvas
Wolf 42"x42" Oil on Canvas
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 29, 2016 - 06:51pm PT
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Love those^^^
Here is a stained glass window in the Duomo Museum from Siena (for Justthemaid):
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 29, 2016 - 07:04pm PT
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Local two-storey home now housing Tioga Florist in Merced.
Hardly Visible, you're amazing, dude! Just ignored your talent for your whole adult life...but I'm happy to look at your cats all day.
Send me one? I'll pay you in promises.
Keep it up.
You should google Edward Weston and see his cats. It might be you'd like his stuff, but it's all black and white.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 29, 2016 - 08:59pm PT
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hey there say, hardly visible... wow, these cats are really great!
here is my newest two paintings...
oils...
HOWEVER the photos are sadly BOTH very blurry, :(
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Apr 29, 2016 - 10:09pm PT
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I don't do these as works of art, but sometimes I am surprised at what materializes. BASIC graphics from a mathematical formula.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 30, 2016 - 02:32am PT
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hey there say, jgill...
say, thanks for sharing these... hope to see more...
i think it is really interesting and intriguing, too...
thanks for sharing... :)
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Apr 30, 2016 - 06:20am PT
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Great work everyone.
wow Kevin- the cats get better and better.
I agree- Randisi's piece is quite interesting for it's simplicity.
I've just been cranking out suncatchers for next X-mas. No new original pieces yet this year.
In the vein of Phylps picture- I did get off my butt and restore/rebuild a number of antiques I've had laying around. As soon as I get some sunlight I'll post up some pictures.
Sticking with the cat theme- here's an old piece "The House of Max"
Here's an enamel-work cat I did inspired by a Heidi Shaulis a few years back.
Heidi is my favorite cat painter on the planet IMO. LOVE her stuff.
http://www.etsy.com/search?q=Heidi%20shaulis
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Apr 30, 2016 - 08:13am PT
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Here's a 150 year-old antique that sat under my work table for the last 10 years. It was damaged in a way that made it hard to decide what to do with it. I was on the brink of just tearing it apart for the painted pieces when I realized I actually had a few blue and grey fragments from the same building from some other windows that were totally destroyed.
There were originally two birds and one had a big hole right through the middle of it from a ball or rock. The chalice is full of fractures and this type of painted work with two centuries of acid-rain patina is totally impossible to replicate. Any modern replacements would stick out like a sore thumb and there were some significant design challenges with any "stop-gap" (just sticking random pieces from other windows in the hole) repair. I was able to piece together a sort of sky and clouds on the one side to fill the hole and at least the color and finish sort of blend.
I edge glued all the fragments of the chalice back together and added the lead curliques to sort of hide all the breakage. I did have to repaint about half the pieces in the outer border since a bunch were missing.
Not sure what to do with it now- there's really no market for religious windows, but I do get a lot of satisfactions salvaging the work of old masters. Nobody can do this type of work any longer.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 30, 2016 - 09:24am PT
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Skip, there was a pair of Englishmen who were father and son who worked on our courthouse museum when it was restored in the eighties. Neither is still alive.
Many of their trade secrets went with them to their graves. One such was their ability to create on an old wood surface an oak grain, using certain brushes and some unusual paint formula which they had concocted.
It looks so realistic, people don't really notice, but the brush marks are there when you look closely. You have to have it called to your attention, really, especially if you are taking a quick guided tour of the building (free docent tours daily).
The two glass windows I posted are like your chalice window, in that there is aging which cannot be duplicated easily, if at all. The old Catholic parish church has painted glass windows dating from around 1917. They are shielded from the sun's rays by dark screens, so you cannot view them from the outside, but only from the inside of the church.
These are relics, and they helped form the minds of literally thousands of children over the years, bored off their butts while the latest Irish priest droned on about damnation, salvation, and various other -ations. Daydreaming about St. Theresa, the statue in the sanctuary was my thing, I must admit, but St. Mary Magdalene was pretty hot, too. Third window on the left from the altar railing.
I love your stuff, buy the way. I wish I had some coin as I have this window, this solitary window...
Sorry you and E won't assemble with the rest of us at Facelift. You'll both be sorely missed.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 30, 2016 - 10:22am PT
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JTM, that restored window is gorgeous!
I'm surprised that there isn't a market for religious art.
Thanks for posting it.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 20, 2016 - 03:45pm PT
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It is such a blessing to have a gallery nearby.
So much happens here that it is hard to keep up!
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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May 29, 2016 - 05:27pm PT
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Have not been so prolific on the new found drawing hobby now that the weather is nice. I started this one while holing up in the car while it blew and snowed at Indian creek in April just put the finishing touches on it today. It is called Clifford and he is a kitten that was at our shelter in November/December 2015.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 29, 2016 - 06:07pm PT
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Super-real, HV. Great expression on his face and the detail is so fine I wanna take him home.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 29, 2016 - 08:40pm PT
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hey there say, hardly visible...
great stuff!!!
say, i am also, slow, one many of mine, as, i been helping a friend...
but, i am very close, now, to having about five, done...
and more in medium points, so far...
whewww, finally, as, i miss painting, :))
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jul 17, 2016 - 10:39am PT
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We've been to a couple of exhibits recently, neither that great, but each with a couple of nice things.
The first one was called Treasures of the Vatican, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The exhibit was quite well curated and very informative about the buildings of the Vatican and St Peter's. But the art itself was pretty disappointing.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jul 17, 2016 - 10:56am PT
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Here are a couple from the exhibit "made in LA" at the Hammer:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 17, 2016 - 09:18pm PT
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hey there say, all... wow, neat bump here...
oh my... i have so many bits of art, nearly ready to share, but
not done, after SUCH a long time, too...
been helping some friends, that are older...
will hope to finish and share the art and then,
start on some more...
oh my... i will get there, i sure hope... :)
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yosguns
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Jul 29, 2016 - 09:49am PT
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yosguns
climber
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Jul 29, 2016 - 02:46pm PT
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Thank you, Tami!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jul 29, 2016 - 07:46pm PT
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Nice to see you are painting regularly now, Yosguns.
I haven't done any painting since the winter. My three artistic pursuits are gardening, painting, and quilting. But I've been doing so much travel that my creative time has been limited. First priority has been the garden work.
Right now I'm working on a quilt when it's too hot to be outside, and that has been a lot of fun. Easy to do for an hour in the evening when my body is tired.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 29, 2016 - 11:20pm PT
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hey there say, phylp... me too...
yard, garden, sewing and a few other things, and my older friends...
have hardly painted, since winter, wow... :O
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jul 30, 2016 - 10:28am PT
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Mystic belt from a complicated mathematical expansion. A complete surprise.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jul 30, 2016 - 10:37am PT
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Wow, that is beautiful, John.
It's great to have the time to do this variety of creative things, Neebee.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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yosguns
climber
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Phylp, my mom is a big gardener. I didn't think of it as an artistic pursuit until now! Thank you!
I need to paint more. Always need to paint more...
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yosguns
climber
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Drljefe, I like these little 3D guys.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 11, 2016 - 03:54pm PT
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Commercial art. I never heard about this event.
Maybe I should check the bulletin boards more often.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Aug 11, 2016 - 05:18pm PT
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We went to the Getty Tuesday to see the exhibit "London Calling" featuring some of my favorite artists.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Aug 11, 2016 - 06:27pm PT
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You just gotta love Lucian Freud's work... a painter's painter. TFPU!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Aug 11, 2016 - 09:11pm PT
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Paul, they had mostly his wonderful nudes, but as you know, they are probably too graphic to post here. The complexity of color on the skin is mind boggling. I actually started crying looking at them, they were so beautifully done. The exhibit said he would often clean his brush after each brush stroke. I had not heard that before.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 12, 2016 - 06:22pm PT
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Thank you for the intro to Lucian Freud, guys. I checked his works out on Goggle and you are right, Phylp, too graphic.
Except this one, Naked Child Laughing.
It's all about brushstrokes. I love the shadow on her leg, among other things.
The smile is devastating.
This sign is a beauty, too.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 15, 2016 - 09:40pm PT
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hey there, say...
some very nice shares...
thank you so very much, :)
say, mouse... that girl reminds me of someone i know,
so it makes it more special...
love the SIGN, too, :))
thanks for sharing, everyone...
*getting close to finally share some more of what i
"should have been doing"
but phylp, is so right: it is great to be able to
enjoy other special stuff:
i have HAD a new piece of land, sold to me, due to help from my family, and i have been able to 'create on it' ... :))
along with 'tons' of other stuff, though, as well...
my two friends, are the ' living art ' in my life,
this last year... :))
say, WOW, i HAD heard of this before:
The exhibit said he would often clean his brush after each brush stroke. I had not heard that before.
but NOT about him... it was about someone that did
portraits... they had advised it...
but wow, i TRIED to make myself do this a few times... and i sure
understood why... but i got too much 'in a hurry' or--into what my brain was thinking and doing, with the art, that i FORGOT all about it,
very very soon, :))
thanks for sharing that!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Aug 16, 2016 - 04:24pm PT
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Glad you liked the Freud stuff, Mouse.
I'm happy for you with your new house Neebee.
Today we went to the "new" Broad Museum in DTLA. It's been open for a while but you have to reserve admission tickets a month or more in advance, so we just finally got our act together to go.
I think the architects did a fantastic job on the design of the building and galleries. The "skin" gives them the ability to let the most wonderful natural light into the galleries without any direct exposure of the artwork to it. And the flow of walking from one gallery to the next is very easy and open.
About the "skin", it looked very climbable - maybe 5.6-5.8. I wonder if anyone has done it yet? from where we were standing, it looked pretty easy, and the concrete seams looked like they might take cams pretty well!
I used to hate the work of Jeff Koons, but I have to say, I'm really starting to come around. There's a whole room of his stuff right now and it's rather hypnotic.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Aug 16, 2016 - 04:28pm PT
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The same room had a bunch of work by Takashi Murakami:
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Aug 16, 2016 - 04:33pm PT
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Of course, I love Jasper Johns:
I thought this one was quite beautiful:
Tons of other great stuff too but I'll stop with those. We'll definately be going back, as the collection in the vault is huge and I'm sure will be rotated out regularly. At $12 for parking in their garage and free admission, it's a great value.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Aug 16, 2016 - 04:55pm PT
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Wow, you get around. Been meaning to get down to LA to the Broad Museum. Looks great. Also a show at the Getty of Barbizon School painters, mostly Rousseau I believe. Lots of good stuff going on down in LA.
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yosguns
climber
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Aug 18, 2016 - 01:29pm PT
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Hi All,
I nearly finished my largest painting to date last night. I also took a timelapse video of the process and added a voice over about what painting Yosemite has added to my life. Happy to have captured and to share this little sliver of expression. :)
Check the video out: Salt Earth Art: Painting the Life You Love
Cheers,
Allyson
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Aug 22, 2016 - 09:23pm PT
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The Plague Doctor
Math art.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 28, 2016 - 10:42pm PT
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hey there say, hardly visible... wow, wonderful!!
i love cats! will paint some, someday, :))
finally, though, what i WAS to be doing, is actually
getting done, now...
:)
well, keep up the great work, :)
and happy good eve!
ooops, oh, say, I DO HAVE some cats, that i did...
did not even REALIZE oh my! :O
how MANY i did... thought most were DOGS...
:))
HERE they are--
not as fine-tuned, as yours... but, i was
doing 'portraits' of the persons, cats...
so just matched them to the photos...
and, two, are just 'sketchy paintings', as well,
but sure were fun!
edit:
no wonderful EYE work though, like you have...
THAT, i might try to really DO some day...
>:D< as you inspired me!
edit:
ahahahha, CAN'T forget, ander's cat, :))
and, just found, 'the lisa's cat, out for a walk' now, :))
forgot these, :))
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Aug 29, 2016 - 08:57am PT
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Neebee,
I really like the one of the side by side Siamese cats, also the white one peeking out of the greenery below them, and the white and black spotted one with what appears to be an oversized collar sitting in front of the cat door. I am continually amazed at how much stuff you produce.
Some day I'll have to draw something other than a cat, but since I just started doing this about 7 months ago I am pretty happy that I can render anything realistically.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 29, 2016 - 10:25am PT
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hey there, say... hardlyvisable...
say, keep it up, what you are doing is
a special skill... you have what is GREAT for an art collection, for a show...
mine, are little personal hugs...
mine, are more for the front room, etc, of the
owners of the cats... like, personal display...
the ones more for a real art show, etc, that i have are about...
a small handful...
i just have so much fun, doing these 'tidbits' for surprises, :))
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Sep 20, 2016 - 12:10pm PT
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Here are a few of my favorites from Sundays visit to MOCA LA. They had a nice ehibit of stuff from their permanent collection:
There was a whole room with Rothko on this visit. I was in heaven.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Sep 20, 2016 - 03:23pm PT
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Getting it together for open studios SC. Crazy amount of work.
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yosguns
climber
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Sep 20, 2016 - 04:25pm PT
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Great stuff, Paul!
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Sep 20, 2016 - 05:35pm PT
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Our climbing buddy Michael Guardino aka Gargoyle is a painter in his own right, but he went to and art show by David A. Leffel and saw this painting and he said was his dad Harry Guardino an actor who played Barabbas in 'King of Kings' 1961. He also played Dirty Harry's partner Bressler in the movie. Anyway Goyle got to talk with David Leffel and he said that Harry's Barabbas was his inspiration in the painting!
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Sep 20, 2016 - 06:58pm PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Sep 20, 2016 - 11:06pm PT
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Wow, Paul, that looks like a huge amount of work. Looks great!
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Clair and the Snow Goose 36"x48" Oil on Canvas
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 26, 2016 - 05:04pm PT
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Local artists on display at the Merced Art Center's artists' guild.
Some of Mariposa's Ocean Jones' work combining her poems with images of feathers.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 26, 2016 - 05:35pm PT
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That is not the sun. It's reflection of overhead lighting on the surface of the glass. So annoying.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 26, 2016 - 05:47pm PT
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The elves are finishing up hanging their offerings almost.
There will be a reception for the Dios de los Muertos exhibit in the front lobby of the Merced Art Center on Saturday evening.
And let me be the first (again) to wish you all a Merry Christmas!
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Oct 26, 2016 - 06:47pm PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Oct 26, 2016 - 08:19pm PT
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Thanks for the report, Mouse. I like your photos, as usual.
Nice watercolor, Largo!
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Hot off the Easel. This was painted near the top of the Pyramid Creek Cascade.
Lovers Leap 36"x36" Oil on Canvas
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Claire's Tree left the studio yesterday with a period, pie-crust frame.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Just to add variety: from a set of mathematical equations, the computer has produced unexpectedly "Zorro as a Child"
;>)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... well, finally back into the paintings...
whewww....
here is one... :)
got a DOG, next and, an old man, and a family, :)
and, then, we will see... :))
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 22, 2016 - 10:12am PT
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hey there say... these have safely got to their homes...
got to get chores done now, :)
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Dec 22, 2016 - 11:08am PT
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Always amazed by your prolific output Neebee. This is my moms cat Hobo one of my Christmas presents to her this year.
Mtnmum I really like your Clair and the Snow Goose painting.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 22, 2016 - 06:57pm PT
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We had a nice visit to LACMA today:
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Dec 22, 2016 - 11:17pm PT
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Some recent work from this fall.
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Dec 23, 2016 - 08:36am PT
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very nice bc!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Beautiful, BC!
Here are a few selections from yesterday's visit to the Orange County Museum of Art.
They have a very nice exhibit on Pop art and design going on.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 10, 2017 - 06:21pm PT
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Arbor Gallery, Main at N, Merced.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Feb 10, 2017 - 09:21pm PT
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Party Buffalo IV 48"x60" Oil on Canvas
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Feb 14, 2017 - 10:16am PT
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Moose-E-Clectic 36"x36" Oil on canvas
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Feb 14, 2017 - 12:43pm PT
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Jude,
I’m guessing there were some hallucinogens in your past, interesting work though. I’ve been in a total creative slump since about mid-December, but in fairness I’ve had a lot going on in other departments. Hopefully will drum up some inspiration soon, in the meantime nice to see that other folks are keeping on keeping on.
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Feb 14, 2017 - 01:41pm PT
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Love the moose {even though he looks kinda like a donkey]!!! Hee Haaw-lars
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 15, 2017 - 09:16am PT
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hey there say, lars! happy to see you...
hugs to you and beth! :)
i enjoy your poster, EVERYDAY in my 'tea room' mahjong-room...
my piano is in there, and my 'silver tea set' and a tiny little fountain, :)
god bless, and happy good day!
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Feb 15, 2017 - 02:49pm PT
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Hey Hardly Visible,
Yes I have been around the park a few times so to speak. I paint completely straight though.' As a full time working artist I must be on my game. Full time also means marketing your art of course. Here is a link to my web site. I hope you can create some cool art soon.
http://www.judebischoff.com
Lars... Heeeee Hawwww back at ya bro!
The Comedians 36"x36" Oil on Canvas
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Feb 17, 2017 - 05:51pm PT
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I named her Tuolumne Princess after all the beautiful Indian women that lived in the area many years before us.
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Feb 17, 2017 - 11:43pm PT
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Jude,
Thanks for the link to your site the cactus bloom paintings are excellent!
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yosguns
climber
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Feb 18, 2017 - 08:18am PT
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In time for VDay and all days...
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Nice piece, Yosguns!
I just got back from a brief visit to San Francisco, where I got to see the "new" SFMOMA.
Here are a few I liked:
There was a whole room filled with these wonderful structures. You could enter the room and walk around and see things from different angles. I liked it very much.
There was also a whole room filled with these insane diorama "photographs". The process is amazing:
here is an example:
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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So, whadayasay? Must art be “beautiful?” Must it communicate? Must it express some vision?
I just tried reading “Authentic Creativity” and threw it into the corner after 45 pages. “It’s authentic if you are an artist following these principles.”
The vision question is my own.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Having a show at Holton Gallery on 5th Ave. in Berkeley until the 18th of this month.
This painting is not in the show though. It was the only one I had left on my computer. It's 3'x4'. A big one for me.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, paul...
wonderful!!!
:)
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Thanks Neebee.
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yosguns
climber
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Thanks, phylp! Glad you enjoyed the MOMA. Did you get a chance to go in the bathroom? I also really like the living wall outside and the Richard Serra, of course.
Allyson
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Paul, all I can say is... WOW! Such subtleties! Would love to see it in person.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 15, 2017 - 05:31pm PT
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hey there say, TGT2 ... wow, that is REALLY something...
thanks for sharing...
wow... :)
nice use of whites and shadows, too...
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Mar 15, 2017 - 06:30pm PT
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Allyson, LOL. I'm sure I went to the bathroom but I don't remember anything special about it. I do love Serra. There are two of his circular pieces permanently installed at LACMA that I visit every time I am there. I just love walking inside them.
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Hubbard
climber
San Diego
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Mar 18, 2017 - 08:25pm PT
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jul 17, 2017 - 09:27pm PT
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Emerge 48"x48" Oil on Canvas
Here's Johnnie
Emerge was painted at Buckeye Creek in the Eastern Sierra. The Bullfrog, Bluejay and Bear all made an appearance. I did not pay them.
Here's Johnnie was a Joshua Tree collaboration with my friend Blues Musician Johnnie Mac from Boston. We watched two blooms on the cactus open while I painted and Johnnie sang is heart out to his favorite recordings.
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Jul 17, 2017 - 09:34pm PT
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Right back to ya bro xxxlars
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 17, 2017 - 10:51pm PT
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hey there say, lars... great to see you here...
say, FINALLY i am getting back to paints...
had lots of yard to do, and set up...
and my books...
now, i feel the time is ripe!!
i always love looking at your print, in my piano room!!!!
it makes it an extra special place...
sending love to you and your wife!
happy painting, :)
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Jul 18, 2017 - 11:19am PT
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Some really creative and talented work here!
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Jul 18, 2017 - 11:24am PT
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Love it Lars. Thanks for sharing. So what was the inspiration for this work?
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jul 18, 2017 - 11:45am PT
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Good one Lars, you got some shoosh in this one. When are you and Beth coming to see us?
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Denver CO
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Aug 16, 2017 - 06:11pm PT
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Hey, thanks for compliments below. These were made from photos in photoshop mostly using the 'oil paint' filter.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Aug 17, 2017 - 07:30am PT
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Nice work Don Paul.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Aug 17, 2017 - 08:01am PT
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Here is a painting I did from a few years back.
I dont art much but it was fun messing around.
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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It has been a long time coming and unlike Don Paul's interesting stuff above this was done the old fashioned way of lots of hours of applying and blending colored pencil.
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, hardly visible... wow, i LOVE you 'cat' ...
wow, i have lots of oils that i am working
on that are the layers over layers...
just can't get back to them yet... :(
also, had to do these up fast, for an add-on family member, through step grandkids, here... their aunt (fraternal sis of their mom) died,
just before fall... :(
am getting back to work, on pets, and
some more portraits, too...
:)
i sure miss it... :)
just been busy with local folks that need helps...
:)
(and my newer big yard, which-- right now, is-- frozen) :))
colors DID not photograph well... reflection on oils...
and, did not have time to do LAYERED WORK...
but-- they 'did the trick' for a hug, at the proper time...
hey there say, batrock...
wow, it is REALLY NEAT... i like it ... you can 'feel' it!
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Wow, you sure crank em out Neebee. What's the story with the rack of books and campfire in the corner of the 1st painting?
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Inspired by a recent Valley backcountry trip with my old pal Steve Bosquez-lars
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, hardly visible... THAT one was for her daughters... and her husband, (now left without her) :
she was a 'book worm' and loved reading... and she loved camping...
though, it was not 'wilderness' camping... just hanging out with her
family- they were BIG family folks-- they go hang out with all their
relatives, on special weekends...
this is their first thanksgiving, christmas, and new year, without her, :(
they were REALLLLLY close to their dad...
that is him, in the other photo...
the long hair, is her, years back (her niece wanted me to paint that) ...
and the NEW short hair look, is:
where she was trying to fix herself up, more, and change her look...
her friend was helping her...
a huge loss, for everyone, :(
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, lars! how you doing...
say, everytime i play my piano...
or do any number of things in my 'tea room' or mahjong room (so being,
as it is the ONLY room to do games in, or puzzles, where the cats
won't knock things over) -- well, EVERYTIME!!!
I SO MUCH ENJOY your art, on my wall!!!
i love it so much... like a window out, to the great outdoors...
:)
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Nice work from everyone - thanks for sharing.
PB is that the orientation you like of your abstract piece? It looks like it was painted rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
We went to the Palm Springs Art Museum the other day and caught the special exhibit "Kinesthesiology".
Here's a photo of a series of rooms illuminated with different light. It was great - very trippy!
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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Phylp the orientation is optional.
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BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Polebridge, Montana
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Jan 10, 2018 - 09:43pm PT
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Bump
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jan 11, 2018 - 10:13am PT
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Strawberry Bears Forever 36"x36" Oil on Canvas
That is The Leap in the background. This painting was started in the fall on Pyramid Creek at Slippery Ford.
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toejahm
Trad climber
Chatsworth, CA
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Jan 11, 2018 - 10:41am PT
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Hello campfire,
As always some very interesting art coming out of the supertopo community. I've branched into the encaustic world and thought I would share some of my first pieces.
Peace,
Kenny
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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Jan 11, 2018 - 04:38pm PT
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toejahm
Trad climber
Chatsworth, CA
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Jan 12, 2018 - 05:29am PT
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Interesting and beautiful pb,
You painted as one then flipped them. Acrylic or oil?
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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Jan 12, 2018 - 07:28am PT
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thanks, mixed media on masonite, cut lengthwise then possible to hang in various configurations.
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BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
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Jan 12, 2018 - 09:38am PT
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Thanks Dingus!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 12, 2018 - 09:42am PT
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You people are sick! 🤪
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Jan 12, 2018 - 09:58am PT
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Cigar box lids!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jan 23, 2018 - 03:08pm PT
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The cigar boxes are great, Paul!
First painting in a long time, done in a few hours last week. It's a gift for Fritz and Heidi. Done after one of Fritz's great photos. I can tell I'm really rusty but it's not worth fussing too much...
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BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
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Jan 23, 2018 - 03:19pm PT
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Here’s one that I’m currently working on when I have a min...
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
A dingy corner in your refrigerator
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Jan 29, 2018 - 06:41pm PT
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One might hope : a latent artist my whole life. Three years ago I was lucky to be included in an amazing teaching learning ceramics community. I have been in some student shows and have won a best of show.....but last weekend I was in a REALLY nice show with a bunch of established artists, my first. On a scale of 1-10 it was a 10 experience for me : every dog has it's day I guess. My work sold right away. Pretty much before any other. Of course my prices were good , but I was very honored. A gallery owner from Scottsdale reportedly really liked my work and bought a piece. So to the supertaco world here is a glimpse of my art, thank you for looking. These pieces are compressed for texture and then carved out. I really try to play functional vs. sculptural lines because I feel that is the 'curl of the wave' in ceramics .
top view mine cart
hope you enjoy
edit: all pieces are wood fired with organic materials added to the clay body as well as granite chips for us climber's good measure :)
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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Jan 29, 2018 - 08:24pm PT
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Jan 29, 2018 - 09:21pm PT
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I would say my current work is more craft, but there is, of course, art in craft. I hope there's room for that here. I have always tended to use beautiful elements created by others in my work. Sometimes I think I need to make all the pieces for it to be "art," but I wonder if that isn't just some sense of insecurity. If nothing else, I am damned good at picking out good stuff to work with!
These are a few of the recent pieces of jewelry I have made:
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Jan 29, 2018 - 09:46pm PT
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P-Envy, wow, huge congratulations to you! Your work is wonderful!
Happie, beautiful art.
The more the merrier here on one of my favorite threads.
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hammerhead
Mountain climber
Eastsound,Wa.
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Jan 30, 2018 - 07:02pm PT
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Corpse mask, wood wax
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hammerhead
Mountain climber
Eastsound,Wa.
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Jan 30, 2018 - 07:31pm PT
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mask, wood, wax finish , life size
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
A dingy corner in your refrigerator
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Jan 30, 2018 - 08:09pm PT
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Hammerhead
Amazing! Corpse mask wow
Thanks for sharing
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 30, 2018 - 11:14pm PT
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hey there, say, happygrrl... wow, lovely!
hope to have some art to share soon, again...
am working on it - finally got the house clean, first!
:))
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Jan 31, 2018 - 07:32am PT
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I've posted some of my drawings earlier in this thread, but wanted to share someone else's artwork (and with apologies for having already posted these on the bluegrass thread). Steve Hinde does really beautiful work on all his custom acoustic instruments, and though I noodle on this every day, sometimes I just want to sit and look at it.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Here are a few older Pend and Ink drawings I made. They were practice pieces that I did the first season I lived at the cabin in the Gunks.
and this one I did while at my campsite in JT that year
And this piece, I made yesterday:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Unknown (to me) artist - Darwin, CA.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 26, 2018 - 05:45pm PT
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hey there, say, all...
i FINALLY got all my paintings into a video, for to show my mom...
i can share here, too, for you all...
it was too long for youtube (they want verification, if it is longer than 20? minutes?)...
but, facebook, took it... (mom does not have facebook) ...
so-- here it is in TWO parts...
many are fuzzy from being photographed with NO FLASH (FOR NO GLARE)
AND-- many are not clear, or as deeply colored as in 'real life' ...
PART ONE:
https://youtu.be/s9yHBmWWOAg
PART TWO:
https://youtu.be/iMC1b5Xm-Tk
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 26, 2018 - 05:57pm PT
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Norton Simon Museum, some crazy Dutchman...
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Lower Rock Creek 42"x42" Oil on Canvas
I carried this canvas two miles or more up Lower Rock Creek after spotting the perfect painting spot on my mountain bike.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Mtnmun, that is really beautiful. your work never ceases to delight me. If I wasn’t at an age where I am divesting of material possessions, I would get one of your beautiful works for my house. Thanks as always for posting here.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Thank you Phylp, that means a lot to me.
Jim Brennan those Takashi Murakami pieces are awesome too. He is at the top of the art world right now.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 12, 2018 - 06:56pm PT
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hey there, say, all...
with help from a friend... these three gifts, finally got sent...
wanted to finish them, about 1 1/2 years, back, oh my!
but-- here they are... :)
going to good homes...
secret surprise - i don't think she will see it, though...
edit:
colors are ' off a bit ' from photography...
(bravecowboy, yours is 'getting done' ) :)
for the proud-parents, of:
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Karkoekstan, Former USSR
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Mar 13, 2018 - 09:40pm PT
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One of a kind and in my position from Patric Nagel
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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So much great art, thanks to all. Neebee, we love your animal paintings!and here's the model
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Reilly,
possibly the entire population of Supertopo could not afford that. it was still on display last friday evening. they are open till 8 on friday and saturday night now. First friday evening of the month is still free 5-8pm which is this friday by the way.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, happy cowboy... aww, thank you so very much...
say, love that blue painting...
doing more animals right now...
and, trying to catch up...
hee hee-- love that 'artists being disturbed' photo, too...
:)
really love the blue, though, and the model photo...
i did one, in white and green, once, for a friend... with their horse...
:)
ahhh, say, there are in montana, too... :)
ooops-- it was more white... now that i see it...
but, it was 'tinted in greens'...
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BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
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Apr 16, 2018 - 02:02pm PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 16, 2018 - 02:22pm PT
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Neebee do you ever sleep! Lol, the amount of work you do is amazing! I especially liked the little dog.
Big B! Nice new work!
I’m here in your town right now. Climbed last three days, taking a rest day today.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Apr 16, 2018 - 09:04pm PT
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The title of this painting is the theme song from Bonanza. Hum along as you take in the view. 48"x48" Oil on Canvas. This was a 5 month project that started on site on the promontory near 90ft. wall.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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My sweetie and I paid our first visit to the Marciano Art Foundation Museum a few weeks ago. It’s located in the fabulous Scottish Rite Shriners Building on mid-Wilshire. This gorgeous site was vacant for years, as re-purposing was complicated by residential zoning.
I enjoyed the piece in the photo above, which was fun to view from all sides.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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The two below are by Rudolf Stingel, Italian, b. 1956
Oil and enamel on canvas. Fascinating in person.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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The next two are by Garth Weiser, American, b. 1979
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Art as a product of weak emergence from a mathematical construct. Entirely unpredictable.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, phylp...
as to you quote:
Apr 16, 2018 - 02:22pm PT
Neebee do you ever sleep! Lol, the amount of work you do is amazing! I especially liked the little dog.
thank you so much-- sent it off as a surprise gift!!!
she loved it!
and:
happy to see you! (you have so many nice shares!)
well-- oh my, i am awake, even now, :))
but, i will get 8 hours of sleep and hope to still have time for the
yard, in the morning... it is getting warmer... :)
just FINISHED two paintings for memorial for family gifts... :)
will share them later...
and, yep, off i go to do some more, :))
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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May 13, 2018 - 12:18pm PT
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I found these in a flat file at my studio last week. During the 70's and early 80's I was doing quite a few climbing and outdoor mountain scenes.
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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May 13, 2018 - 12:55pm PT
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three masks
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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May 13, 2018 - 08:15pm PT
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What you think is art, makes you a critic. When you're doing art, when you are being artistic, then that's something completely different.
A work-in-process.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 13, 2018 - 08:23pm PT
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I’m not much for modern but I must say that is very cool, Mike.
In researching my coming trip to the fatherland I came across this mural in the Täby Church
in Täby, Sweden...
The church is best known as one of the churches with mural paintings by Albertus Pictor (died 1511). The ceiling frescos are from the 1480s and, unlike many of his other works, were never whitewashed over. They include a picture of a man playing chess with Death, a motif that inspired Ingmar Bergman to a famous scene in the movie The Seventh Seal. The motif is very unusual, known only from one other source.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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May 14, 2018 - 10:50am PT
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^^^ That's interesting, Reilly. Twenty years ago I visited a church in rural Norway and the pastor pulled back a tapestry behind the pulpit to reveal a similar image of the devil cavorting in an explicit sexual manner with a young maiden. The pastor said his congregation favored not destroying this remarkable imagery from the 1500s.
(Nice project, Mike!)
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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May 14, 2018 - 02:31pm PT
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Woah, I had no idea the Grateful Dead were that old. Jerry doesn't even have a beard yet in that pic!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 14, 2018 - 06:56pm PT
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hey there say, lars... wow, neat!! really neat...
mikeL... neat tree art, too!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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May 14, 2018 - 09:06pm PT
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Saw the King Tut exhibit at the Science Center today. It was great.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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May 15, 2018 - 06:57am PT
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Playing chess with the dead... fascinating.
@ Phyl- was it crowded? Dead Sea exhibit had relly annoying crowds- even mid week with a reservation. I'll probably go see the Tut exhibit at the end of the year when I'm doing my stint in LA.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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May 15, 2018 - 08:35am PT
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@ JTM, no it wasn't too crowded at all. Well worth seeing. The artistry and craftsmanship is stunning, especially when you remind yourself of the age of what you are looking at.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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May 15, 2018 - 01:09pm PT
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The Eye of Nefertiti
This is one of the many intriguing images that have arisen from the unique mathematics I enjoy. I've done my own programming in BASIC to produce them, and they are entirely unpredictable, which makes them examples of what philosophers and scientists call weak emergence. So, to some extent it might be said they arise from the subconscious mind of the mathematical programmer.
Can this be considered art? I am not creating an image in my mind to be coupled with a traditional "talent", like those exhibited by a painter or sculptor. On the other hand, the mathematics I toy with is unique and requires insights and a certain talent to explore and develop. Research mathematics is not solely rational, but is dependent upon epiphanies not completely unlike those of a more traditional artist.
Just curious how you feel about this.
Thanks
(oh, almost forgot. The Nefertiti bust is missing an eye!)
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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May 15, 2018 - 01:25pm PT
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Well, I always enjoy your images, They are very pleasing to the eye.
I don’t personally ever feel the need to define if things are “art” or not.
And it’s fun for us to share these things with each other.
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climbrunride
Sport climber
Golf Wall, CO
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May 15, 2018 - 11:41pm PT
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Hey Lars, those are great paintings! Any of them for sale?
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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May 16, 2018 - 01:38pm PT
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Absolutely.Best-lars
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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May 16, 2018 - 03:38pm PT
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This is great bonsai MikeL!
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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May 16, 2018 - 09:19pm PT
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jogill: Can this be considered art? I am not creating an image in my mind to be coupled with a traditional "talent", like those exhibited by a painter or sculptor. On the other hand, the mathematics I toy with is unique and requires insights and a certain talent to explore and develop. Research mathematics is not solely rational, but is dependent upon epiphanies not completely unlike those of a more traditional artist.
I’d say it can be considered art.
Among certain philosophies in India, artistic values can refer to “rasas.” (See, Abhinavagupta.) Rasas are artistic expressions that expose an audience’s own higher consciousness to itself. That is, an artistic performance brings viewers to see consciousness in its pristine form.
If you have generated insights, then you have generated rasas. You have expanded the awareness of consciousness in viewers.
What more could one possibly ask for from an artist?
Be well.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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May 16, 2018 - 09:29pm PT
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Oh, yeah, and thanks all for the kind comments.
The bonsai will be a major fixture in an installation. These days I'm struggling with the rest of the context / installation so that it doesn't overwhelm the bonsai, so that an expression of harmony results. The other artist is my wife, and our conversations / dialogues end up exposing our views of art and ourselves. Collaboration can be a bitch, a kind of pleasant acrimony in our case--a mirror that exposes many discomforts. We often have to remind each other who's project the one we're working on is. :-D
I'll post an image when I'm finished.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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May 17, 2018 - 10:03am PT
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Thanks for your replies, Phylp & MikeL.
Anyone watching Picasso on Nat Geo channel?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 18, 2018 - 08:58am PT
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Cool, made me think of my walking stick...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 18, 2018 - 09:05am PT
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Maybe he could add a skarv to your cane?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 18, 2018 - 09:06am PT
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As far as I know, it is a skarv head on the cane... a cormoran...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 18, 2018 - 09:19am PT
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Well, the shape is good but skarvor don’t have nostrils in their beak like gjess. 🤓
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 18, 2018 - 09:32am PT
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It's French, you know, a cormoran. How can you speak French without nostrils? ^^^^
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 18, 2018 - 09:40am PT
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Touché! 😉
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 18, 2018 - 09:42am PT
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I had one more: This is the "Art thread"... :o)
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
A dingy corner in your refrigerator
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Jun 30, 2018 - 09:07pm PT
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Month and a half bump …….
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 30, 2018 - 09:39pm PT
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hey there, say... wow, i missed seeing those metal birds!
wow...
well, i had these done, just back for the 'bird' memorial...
one looked really good, but the other second? i think i had the
face 'not quite right' somehow... off a bit, (the shape?)
not sure... :( (i do that sometimes, and can't quite line it up right) ...
but the first one, i was very happy with, :)
i am FINALLY back to working on paintings...
i have had a busy YARD time -- FIX-UP and enjoying it...
*trying to do another small pond, but, one that will 'run'...
will hope to post more paintings, again, soon...
until then:
here are these--they have some 'birds' hidden in them:
then, there is this for a friend of mine, and her 'favorite actor'
from a medical show she likes (though me and my buddies, enjoyed this
actor, as a cowboy) :)) instead...
this has LADYBUGS on it, as, her sister died from cancer, and her
sister LOVED ladybugs... so, i added them all over this, as the
'doctor issue' ...
then-- this was done for my step-grandkids' cousin:
that's it for now, but, quite a few are on the ol' starting-line...
and have been for about whewww---- 6 months, :O
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Sep 15, 2018 - 08:13pm PT
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John Mason exhibit at Scripps College
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Sep 15, 2018 - 08:17pm PT
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I found this to be very beautiful. The medium is "firebricks". They are a soft white, very finely made.
This appeals to my own personal aesthetic. I like repetition, simplicity of form and material.
Of course the way they are lit from above is key to the luminous effect.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Sep 15, 2018 - 09:51pm PT
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^^^
Cool!
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Oct 16, 2018 - 11:29am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 16, 2018 - 06:38pm PT
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Gene Foley's paintings.
Gene Foley photograph.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Oct 17, 2018 - 06:21am PT
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Great stuff . If knew how to weld my yard would be full of scrap metal art. Right now I have to settle for ( unmodified) vintage wrought iron.
Phyl's pics are interesting- the second shows how the blocks are stacked but the first - has a lighting trick or optical illusion looks like there are no base blocks supporting the tiers- kinda weird ( in a good way)
Neebee - nice one of Jim & We've got one of Pennsyl's pieces at our place .
@ Xcon- what is that? Hard to tell what it's made of. Lunate is generally bone but that looks like some amazing stone implement.
PS: I've got this years pile of art finished and getting packed up to ship to San Francisco. I'll get some pics up .
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Oct 17, 2018 - 07:18am PT
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justthemaid,
Get a Mig or a stick welder. Anyone can weld with those technologies. Gas welding (oxy-acetelyene) takes real skill, though.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Oct 17, 2018 - 08:24am PT
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Someone gifted me a really crappy small welder at one point- never had any luck with it. Probably need a second try with a better rig and an auto- darkening hood. It's something I'd be good at if I could see what I'm doing.
I've been recycling some busted up Victorian- era body parts ( tornado flattened a 100 year- old church. )
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Oct 19, 2018 - 10:17am PT
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I recently bought this painting by Cornelis Springer, painted in 1842, which is early in his very successful career. This is a large, newly discovered work by this notable artist, who is represented in many museums, both in the US and especially in Europe, since he lived in Holland. Springer's work was greatly admired, and commanded high prices during his working career. He is considered the master of 19th century architectural and street scenes in Europe; particularly in the Netherlands. I am quite excited to acquire this fine painting.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Oct 19, 2018 - 10:18am PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 29, 2018 - 09:19am PT
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I missed the most recent posts from October. Nice work, JTM! Steve congratulations on your new beautiful painting.
My sister, who teaches art and has a background in art history, has been here in So Cal for the first time. For her first visit we went to the Norton Simon, The Broad, the Huntington, and the Palm Springs Art Museum. I’m just vibrating at seeing all the wonderful art.
I’m always impressed by the Palm Springs Museum. They have a terrific permanent collection and do fantastic special exhibitions. There is one going on now which is just terrific! Here are a few:
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 29, 2018 - 09:20am PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 29, 2018 - 09:21am PT
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Take a close look at these totems - they are made from golf bags!
There were a lot of excellent works by artists with Native American background in this exhibit.
That’s a terrific Mark Bradford painting in the background. He’s one of my favorite artists working today. The Broad has four of his pieces hanging right now. Just great stuff.
I’ll post more later.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 29, 2018 - 11:14am PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 29, 2018 - 11:16am PT
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They always have wonderful glass art on display. Here was my favorite from yesterday.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Dec 29, 2018 - 02:05pm PT
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Just added this piece by Cornelis Springer, painted in 1842, to my collection.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 29, 2018 - 02:08pm PT
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hey there say, SteveA ... wow!!! wow, THAT is really neat! :O
where, please, did you find THAT... :)
HAPPY holiday season, by the way, :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 29, 2018 - 02:09pm PT
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hey there say, SteveA ... wow, i just looked back, a bit, and saw you posted more on it, in oct?
:)
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jan 25, 2019 - 08:51am PT
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Sierra Bear 36"x36" Oil on Canvas
This piece was painted at Upper Twin Lake in Bridgeport, CA. Normally I visit the site a couple of times and then finish the paintings in my studio.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jan 25, 2019 - 11:56am PT
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Mntmun, "Sierra Bear" is wonder full: If It needs be said,
Let me say, oo-mhan thats a golly deep, deep pool!
As hard as it is to believe,
I have a correct-it-all program that adds different colored lines to
highlight spelling, grammar, agreement/structure mistakes.
(yeah, I ride over it instead of overriding it)
It was a work of art to see the triple underlined in 3 colors very short 1st attempt to try to say;
Gnomes Gnow what they Like Gnomes Like that
an are going ta call that something like
'The Pool of deep Surprise' or 'Deep Surprise Pool' - funny if only to me.
Last weekend, with it being the MLK holiday we had plans to vist a local display center.
This was as the threat of an ice storm was swaying all logic here in the northeast.
I received a text alert informing us that 3 or 4 of the artist whose art had been on display were leaving the show early.
Still, we always go; the space has a good vibe.
It is important to us that we teach our kids to be both artistic in their presentations & supportive of the Arts.
We understood that we were going to a lesser than great 'exposition',
This was of a lower standard than most high school art programs.
Seeing us & understanding that we were disappointed, the head of the Docents program, who knows us & our kids from their having attended programs/volunteering, was apologetic.
Thinking it would make us. . . ? I don't know how to define it.
She allowed access to a cordoned off doorway.
where I was allowed to take these snaps of one remaining masterpiece I was not discouraged from taking pictures, which is often frowned on, in the gallery spaces.
In this instance only 3 of 7-10 'rooms' were open.
The largest room, was also the most obscure & by size the largest art work.
The floor was covered in "Sticks of drawing Chalk" aligned in a repeating chevron pattern.If it is not in your experience, a good description of taking teenagers, talented teens, to modern art museums,
It is like herding talking/texting cats,
"oh no, wer're fine, you 2 just go on your own, we will catch up.
I think we missed the smirk & knowing nods ...
ook-a-y,
soon enough the giggles led us back to corral them. I left out the more obscene "art" & I'm not sorry about it. but that is why this thread is awesome,
everyone has strong imaginations,
so go ahead think ~ "blue body-parts" Arms, Feet, knees, An Abdomen/buttocks all a disconcerting yellow . . .
think: a yellow Elbow, sprouting incongruous patches of hair.
No hair on any of the few headsagain I ask you to imagine; some torso missing heads....
other body parts? not so much. One, A Starck sculpture of a not fully decayed female rib cage, glazed in metallic black cropped out of a concern to not run afoul of moderation, maybe act of self-moderation?Given what was out in the open fully on display & beyond fingers and tongue~ the presence of three stacked boxes, with a peep-hole in the middle of the middle box was concerning,
As chaperone, I looked 1stIt was benign as were these
although, paired with the other yellow body parts
like the 'Hairy Yellow Elbow'
this 'hollow Leg'
left a lasting impression,
if not a damaging mark on the young psyches?
The "Cornichon*" Man,- losing parts; bits of acrylic coated broccoli had elicited the giggles*Cornichon are a type mini pickled cucumber. They are noticeably nubby and bumpy, tart and crunchy.
The French call them cornichons, and they're sold under the same name in the US, but the English call them gherkins. and the likes ofAs well as whatever the orange thing in the 1st picture.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Jan 31, 2019 - 07:29am PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 31, 2019 - 09:05am PT
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jan 31, 2019 - 12:06pm PT
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Weak emergence from the weird math I do.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 31, 2019 - 12:27pm PT
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Benoit thanks you, John.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jan 31, 2019 - 01:25pm PT
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It's not a fractal. I iterate different functions in the complex plane, whereas a fractal comes primarily from iterations of a single function.
;>)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 31, 2019 - 01:41pm PT
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I didn’t really think it was, I was just being cute. 😽
I’m reading his The Misbehavior of Markets, at a walking pace.
And why isn’t there a Nobel Prize for math? Certainly more important than peace!
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jan 31, 2019 - 02:13pm PT
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I seem to recall something about a mathematician messing around with Nobel's wife.
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E Robinson
Trad climber
Salinas, CA
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Jan 31, 2019 - 08:47pm PT
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Figured I'd add something to the thread.
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Loose Rocks
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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Feb 10, 2019 - 03:41pm PT
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Just finished and hung
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yosguns
climber
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Feb 10, 2019 - 06:54pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 11, 2019 - 07:05am PT
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Art piece by my friend Karen LeCoq, local Merced artist.
William Saroyan with some of his thoughts.
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BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
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Apr 11, 2019 - 08:51am PT
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Apr 11, 2019 - 09:03am PT
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But is it art?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 09:12am PT
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The wife wouldn’t think so. LOL
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 10:29am PT
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Is it art, or is it just an illustration? My latest cat drawing...
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 01:35pm PT
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Deborah Butterfield and Louise Bourguois , it’s art to me. I love both their work.
I didn’t have time to post after our last visit to Lacma. Some terrific art on special exhibit right now.
This piece is entirely made of paper. Very cool!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 01:41pm PT
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Charles White was a new artist to us. We were blown away by his work. Here are three pieces from different stages of his long career.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 01:42pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 11, 2019 - 01:43pm PT
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You should have asked him to wave.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 01:43pm PT
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Apr 11, 2019 - 02:31pm PT
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Hey Phylp,
Just reading a new book about the New York School in the forties and fifties called "Ninth Street Women" by Mary Gabriel. What a great read! Highly recommended. Check it out. From Krasner to Elaine de Kooning to Joan Mitchell, what an amazing story.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Apr 11, 2019 - 03:06pm PT
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Impossible star.
3-d in 2-d. Lots of fun.
Hardly, that kitty-cat is awsome!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 11, 2019 - 07:13pm PT
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hey there, say, hardly visible... i LOVE the kitten... very very well done!!
encouraged me to finish my 'half ways' ... :)
i have been on a 'doing other work' vacation, of sorts, ;)
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 10:46pm PT
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I put it on my reading list, Paul! Thanks for the recommendation.
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