Anyone artistic?

[pervert]

Thats the best in this thread madda very nice stuff mate.

[cohofly]

Nice stuff Carver, especially the Steelhead. Just curious, what do you charge for something like that?


And Madda, your Einstein is fantastic so far. 

That piece retails for $2200.00 CDN..  Native Art is a keystone market here in Canada, and I would assume everywhere else so I get half. Still it took 4.5 to 5 days so thats a really nice week! And thanks Devil appreciate it!

And Maddas work just blows my mind.

[maddafinga]

Thanks guys, there's actually tons of great stuff in this thread.  I really dig the carvings and the 3d modeling some guys are doing.  That's impressive stuff to me.  I appreciate the kudos though gentlemen, thanks.

I love seeing people's artwork.

[maddafinga]

There are a lot of books that teach the techniques of how to paint well.
I got a book about how Boris Valejo does his paintings and it set me up with what I needed to know.
Much later I got a book that showed how Robert Taylor setup his aviation paintings .. and he uses the same techniques as Boris

Basically ..prep the canvas with a few coats of Gesso.
It fills the weave and leaves a matte white base to work from.. so your colors look great.

Then do a pencil sketch of what you want to paint ..
..you can project an image onto the canvas to sketch copy outlines
..and an accurate image will get you the correct perspective angles an the like.

Then it's a matter of makin the color look 'right' ..
..with Acrylic on posterboard it's a much faster process ..I did this in 4 hours, start to finish:


..while Stiletto's A-land Spit 9 took me 3 months.
(of course, it was 4' by 2.5' canvas and that is only one of the 4 shown takin off at sunrise

Thing is .. you don't have to draw many straight lines
With the right techniques you can just rock on.

-Frank aka GE

GE, you know Stil still has that picture.  He posted a shot of it to the muskies list not so awful long ago. 

[SmokinLoon]

Artistic?  My bad... I thought the thread title asked if anyone was autist...  OH LOOK A SQUIRREL!!!     

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Madda awesome stuff, the woman and kids is quite phenomenal

 me in front of my paintings wall



my second piece on the tablet, took about an hour


 
done in ball point pen when I was 18 so 25 years ago



Tablet



wall mural and some portrait paintings



goods shot of self portrait



second portrait in paint......daughter in Acrylic



and lastly my favorite painting I have done, A Baby Dumeril's monitor took about 50 hrs

[Zacherof]

I must Say I really like  what you did in your self portait. Ink. Surealism is my favorite style(h.r. Giger's fualt)


And awesome stuff madda! I'm more of a pencil guy myself. I need to post more stuff. Although 90 percent of my stuff is incomplete

Ink you wouldn't happen to know who Jon Shaffer is would you?

[Lusche]

I wish I could do anything like the awesome stuff in thsi thread.

Unfortunately, this is about the best and most 'artistic' crap I could come up with 



Sorry for the bad photo, I took it a few days ago with my cell phone on a boring train ride




So  and  to all the real stuff in this thread

[Zacherof]

Hey we all start somewhere lusche. I like the guy who's spyin on the yahoo with the gun
keep it up

btw YOUR awesome too! 
can't ever beat you in ah

[zack1234]

Here are a few pieces of mine. Im a full time carver and painter and have been for close to 20 years now.

22inch Steelhead on driftwood

Yellow Cedar steam bent box with Red Cedar top

Exremely Abstract Steam Bent Box, cut into four equal pieces then glued to a stepped Red Cedar base

Yellow Cedar Seal Head with synthetic broom whiskers

Front View

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I must Say I really like  what you did in your self portait. Ink. Surealism is my favorite style(h.r. Giger's fualt)


And awesome stuff madda! I'm more of a pencil guy myself. I need to post more stuff. Although 90 percent of my stuff is incomplete

Ink you wouldn't happen to know who Jon Shaffer is would you?

thanx man

cant say that I know who Jon Shaffer is
name dont ring a bell.

[Zacherof]

Well never mind. You look just like him kind of

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Well never mind. You look just like him kind of

ahhh cc that

[Grayeagle]

some very cool stuff

Ink: Workin on skin sounds like fun
-wiggle-wiggle-wiggle ..'I work OUT!'
-evil grin-

What used to bum me out about doin cars-bikes an the like ..
..I'd do a real knockout image, just killer .. and the guy would roll the car
or get T-boned in an intersection on her bike .. had the worst luck.

Oil was intriguing ..it is completely opaque and you can make it dry slow or fast
..you can work with it to get the right shade for *days*
..and the detail you can put in is mind boggling.
That Stiletto Spitfire ..I was doing the colors of the iris of pilots eyeballs with a pin ..
..I stepped back and decided I was done ..on a 4 foot canvas
The color dynamic range is very close to what the eye can see, the only thing it cannot do
is light.. but a gesso wash will make the whites bright enough that a photograph does not do it justice.

So if you're a perfectionist and a bit obsessive ..oil rocks
It will let you do it right.. it just takes time

-Frank aka GE

[Zacherof]

For paints, I prefer oil. I can leave my paint out and I won't dry. With acrilic, it can't take hours to sometimes get the shade of color was using and most
of the time it isn't perfect. 

currently working acrilic on butcher paper