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Monday, December 31, 2012
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Pinball Cribbage board.
I guess this has actually been getting some use.
Need to make more things like this.
Need to make more things like this.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Bob Ross Q&A
I was recently asked what I thought of Bob Ross on Facebook. I answered thus:
IMHO: I think a lot of people like bob Ross without ever trying his methods and formulas. Why is that? I think a lot of people like Bob Ross' personality and character more than his art. I think a lot of people like his personality because it is pretty authentic (despite affectations) and damn free of pretensions, conceit, cynicism and discouragements. It is damn hard to make authentic representational landscapes in just a few hours. its a but easier to have the room for imagination and methods to fall back on, that said, I'm always impressed when people can make a full painting in a few minutes. And it's always inspiring to watch others, regardless of aesthetics, making stuff from nothing. I almost like it like I like watching someone perform a song they know well. I think Bill Alexander's paintings are better. They don't have the same necklaced slack that Ross' works do. Alexander's work is tighter, more skillful and addresses a higher common denominator. I think Ross' results are more realistic for beginners works and easier to match. I think it's always great when artists and kind people make their way into new media avenues, expose and inspire people to make stuff who wouldn't ordinarily do so. How "important" the work is, blah blah blah... I'm not going to write about here. But I always really enjoy watching and picking up tricks, methods and juju from people who have defined, honed and shaped a craft for themselves. IMHO. Merry Christmas!
IMHO: I think a lot of people like bob Ross without ever trying his methods and formulas. Why is that? I think a lot of people like Bob Ross' personality and character more than his art. I think a lot of people like his personality because it is pretty authentic (despite affectations) and damn free of pretensions, conceit, cynicism and discouragements. It is damn hard to make authentic representational landscapes in just a few hours. its a but easier to have the room for imagination and methods to fall back on, that said, I'm always impressed when people can make a full painting in a few minutes. And it's always inspiring to watch others, regardless of aesthetics, making stuff from nothing. I almost like it like I like watching someone perform a song they know well. I think Bill Alexander's paintings are better. They don't have the same necklaced slack that Ross' works do. Alexander's work is tighter, more skillful and addresses a higher common denominator. I think Ross' results are more realistic for beginners works and easier to match. I think it's always great when artists and kind people make their way into new media avenues, expose and inspire people to make stuff who wouldn't ordinarily do so. How "important" the work is, blah blah blah... I'm not going to write about here. But I always really enjoy watching and picking up tricks, methods and juju from people who have defined, honed and shaped a craft for themselves. IMHO. Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
3 stages of a life drawing from November
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2. I realized at this stage that the paper was not going to work with the wet media As i had planned. I found myself working with a little discouragement then.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Recent scraps.
Tattoo pen pen tattoo.
Spaceship design for saving earth from moon-egg hatch destruction.Giant telescoping needle extends to deliver poison to kill egg (moon creature embryo) before it hatches turning the moon into rocks that destroy the earth.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Dungeoneers
Haven't been posting lately. Super busy. Need to get back on it. Here is one I finished today. Ran it through a "grunge" filter for better or worse.
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