this just in
climber
north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2011 - 07:47am 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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locker
Social climber
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ONE of my FAVORITE "Artist"...
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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
fresno/clovis
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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
climber
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
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Rick Griffin
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Gene
Social climber
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Nice Float, Nate D. I'd like to have your climbing talents as well as your artistic ones.
G
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Nate D
climber
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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FortMental
Social climber
Albuquerque, NM
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A while back, I decided that I was going to put the following statement, "I could do that!" to the test. Rifling through the stack of art books at home and those at the library, I kept coming back to a picture of a cubist still-life by Cezanne that was in a Musee D'Orsay catalog. I paid this guy I knew to show me how to mix oil paints afterwhich I copied and blocked out the composition as best I could. At bottom left is the image from which I worked....
Painting isn't that hard. The difficulty is in getting the values correct; if subjects are too bright or dark, the end product looks stupid. That took me a while to figure out.
Copying stuff is also pretty easy, but arranging your own composition is not. I tried arranging a bowl of fruit and sketching it but it ended up looking like dead crap on a table. Cezanne made this still life dynamic by breaking standard rules of composition.
Composition is hard. That's why Henri Cartier Bresson spent the last 20 years of his life in museums, copying paintings, by sketching them out in a notebook with a pencil. As far as he was concerned, he still hadn't figured it out.
After I finished the painting, I decided to frame it in what I thought would be a period, gold leafed carved frame. However, there was no way I was going to hand carve a frame, plaster it with rabbit skin glue, and leaf it in 24K gold. Especially since I really didn't know what the frame looked like. So, off to Home Depot I went for some mouldings and a few chipboard planks.
Luckily, I had the internets, and eventually found a tourist photo of the framed painting. It was a crappy photo but good enough to give me a rough idea of the frame configuration.
Unfortunately, building a frame out of doo-doo meant that it couldn't support itself without some major structural engineering.
After a couple of coats of paint, I leafed the frame in gold. OK, not real gold, but brass. Don't tell anyone.
No doubt about it; working with gold leaf is about the biggest pain in the ass in the frikkin' world. Between the low humidity, floating cat hairs, crappy glue, and callused fingertips, I was ready to set the thing on fire more than a few times.
When I was done, the frame looked like it had been carved from solid gold. It looked like something Mr. Tee had commissioned for his portrait.
This would not do. Toning down the picture with some manner of antique-ing was required. I mixed up a batch of 150 years of French air-slime and slathered it on thick and heavy, then lightly wiped it off.
When finally framed, I called it a day, stood back, and looked at it, thoroughly impressed with my efforts.
A couple of years ago, I finally got to see the real thing, hanging up in Paris, just another masterwork amongst hundreds of thousands. I spent about an hour carefully examining Cezanne's original and finally realized what makes his a masterpiece and mine a clunky copy....
My copy of Cezanne's still-life hangs in the parlor, a reminder of all the things still to learn.
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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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