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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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