Art & Inspiration ***Friday art show 9-7-2007***

Thanks Slide....I did mean your design.Got any others....that slide style is unique

 

A couple weeks ago, Dennis Gage of "My Classic Car" made an appearance in Flint, for the Back to the Bricks car show. I tracked him down for an autograph, and our very own Kritz supplied the handy artwork above his signature. So now hanging in Kritz's Tattoo shop, Consolidated Ink and Steel, is this picture, with Dennis Gage's autograph... if he only knew.

Sorry for the poor quality copy, I had to scan it. It is actuially quite colorful.

 

I'm going to hold my comments till Friday, but its all lookin good as usual! Heres what I did this week. I'm always thinkin about a shortened 59 ElCamino for some reason, so I worked it out. I wouldn't do this to a Camino if it was mine, unless it was all rusted out and all the bed trim was missing, and all the good stuff was gone, then I might think about it.There is not much you can say about it, its just eye candy. I put Bob Moreira's candy Vette in the background. Bob McNulty did the work on that car. This is the version before it got scalloped. It had a 57 Studebaker Hawk grille and Lincoln headlights. I would love to go to a Vette restorers show with that one! I also included the inked version because it looked kinda neat.Get outa here...

 

Great friday show!

 

Thanks, Coby! ...and daaaaaamnnnnn.... SWEET piece of useless crap!
...even if it DOES have that Styx logo.

All you need is a cape, Janne... SUPER work!

That's excellent, customcory... in every way possible, just plain excellent!

thrasherbill, nice stripes! Slide, man... WOW.
Dutch Courage, nice work! ...and welcome to the H.A.M.B.!
RYZART, you could spill ink on the table, and I'd dig it, just because you'd do it with style, brother... Cool work as always!

 

Thanks flyingpolock, I just got done with it and put it on. Hey, those Monte Carlos would have made good funny cars, I wonder why they didn't use them, or maybe they did, I can't remember. Same to you flypolock!

 

more signs for this weekends hoedown outside philly pa
www.hotrodhoedown fer the lowdown

 

Polock, that Monte is SIK SIK SIK! I LOVE IT! cool idea.

Here's mine, been a ling time since I have posted (the website got blocked at my work so I have to do this on my free time-which is nearly non-existent....effin IT buttholes !)

This is a rough of a bigger piece I want to do. The car is my old man gasser.


Sander

 

chazzin, not only do the stripes look great, I think that grey coupe's really got it goin'.
Custom Cory, cool cars.
Flyin' P, How you be? Nice Monte.

Here's a quick rendering. Threw it down as an excersize and will probably tack it a different direction for a more final piece. (Anybody recognize the origins of this ride? Hint,...I call it the "Tingle-Dorf"



Details (note, my Tiki's need some work.)(not something I've drawn much)

 

Sorta OT, but vehicle related...

My brother-in-law is on his way to northern Iraq as a helicopter crew chief and he asked me to customize his mouth guard on his chopper helmet. I based the design on a samurai helmet face mask.

 

Here ya go

 

Well this is my contribution for this week. It has been a while but I am working on a new website for our shop and going to school so things are busy at the moment. Well tell me what ya think so far.

 

Ruben--- glad to see you here! Your stuff rules!

Sander, thanks man!! Double that right back at ya!! That's eeeeeeevil!

Jigger, man, things is goooood!! And man, I love the take on Tingler's ride! ...and nice tiki's. I'm just shocked to see you draw something humanoid without it being yellow.

 

LaGrasta... Thanks man... We could open a shop called Rods-R-Us!
Broman... Thanks.... I appreciate it.
Jigger... Again thanks... and I do recognize that Fairlane...
I'm diggin the tiki stuff in the genuine woodgrain panel!

FlyingP... Thanks... Nice Monte! Every time I see one like that
I think of the three Monte Carlos my sister-in-law totaled
in less than a month.... ONCE ACTUALLY running into a
parked trailer which was hauling a GTO drag racer.
She hit it so hard it knocked the GTO from the street
into the guys front yard. True story!

Slide... That T-shirt is sooooooo cooooool!

Dutch... Again a sweet T-shirt.
The coupe you posted last week was great also!

Janne... Beautiful interior.

CustomCory... FANNNNtastic! Again!

 

I'm so glad it's HAMB Friday...this week has totally suck'd but it's almost over.

Another killer show...to much kool stuff.

ROLLIE...you are such a badass!

Here's 'my contribution this week.

 

Here are a couple of pics of a paint box I did this week.It and another box have found a new home.The third box is going to a show tomorrow and is probably sold.See you at Frankenmuth this weekend.

 

The other box.

 

Sorry, no paintings from me this week.
I did mess around with some of my old pics from my college photography class this afternoon though.
The top one is of a 41 Chev that I watched rust away on the side of a road for many years.
The owner was not interested in selling it. It looked pretty good when he first put it out there.
Bottom is one taken of my old 40 Ford Sedan. The Wife wishes I still had that one.
Last weeks show was fantastic. I'll have something for next week. Great art everyone.

B Ramirez

 

Hey Slide. Kool t-shirt design. I dig that.

 

Cab - great piece
Polock - I love the ink splatter, I have played with that in the past and am trying it again.
Janne - very cool!
Sander - I like the B&W

I am going to share pictures from the "Lowbrow • High Octane" art opening last Saturday, enjoy.


Artist roll call, from the left - Justin Slingsby, Chris Andersen, Chief, Nick
Sinclair, Joe May and Jermey Pedersen.

 

Just wonderin' Does anyone even notice my work,,,,,Sometimes I feel like I'm approaching the H.S. jock table, no matter what I do,,,I'm still ignored?---Just wonderin if my work really sucks that bad??,,,cause after 7 years here I've never had anyone in the art post give a compliment towards my work! What does an artist have to do to gain respect on here. Maybe next year I'll "make the team" ...

 

I was scrolling through here and this took me by surprise!
Major props to Slide for doing this. I gave the guy a very vague description of what I wanted, and on his first try he hit it way better than I could have ever imagined. If anyone needs design work, he is the one to see in my book. Turn around time was super quick, and the price was very reasonable. Great guy to work with. Thanks Slide!

Tim @ www.irrationalmetalworks.com

 

It's funny that you mention this. I was planning to comment on your stuff earlier but got so pissed at my internet service for taking soooooooo long to upload my entry that I posted it and bailed as quick as I could.(kids to please and dogs to wash, don't ya know.) That said, I like your stuff. The first one seems familiar and your style has a 'throw back' look with a contemporary twist. I favor the stand alone cars over the ones with characatures (eg. your avatar) tho I'm certain those are dead ringers of the people you're depicting. That is an art in and of itself. Keep coming back for more. I'm, personally, all for negative feedback as well as positive; helps me know where I need to work things out. So any comments are better than no comments.

 

Couple new shirts I've shown the original designs before but there now in shirt form.

CarartNick its hard to keep up with all the fancy computer finished art. Not to mention all the published artists on here. You can be on my team all I use is pens pencils and one shot. Call me old fashion.

Anywho


and a wee one for the front

Ill throw them in the classifieds a little later if anyones interest has been peaked.

 

This one isn't mine, I didn't make it but found it in a junkshop today for $10. It's one of those scrap sculptures you see made out of screws and stuff. It's about 8" long.

I don't normally like these things but whoever made it must have been into hot rods because of the details. It's got a drop axle, z'd in the rear, stick shift and looking at the angle of the valve covers and the water inlet, I'd say that's supposed to be a 283 out of an old vette.

Not sure how old it is. Some kid scratched "marvin 83" in the back on the tank but I bet it's older because it was gray before black and the windshield supports make me think it was made in the 60s or early 70s. I thought it was cool for ten bucks anyway.

 

CarartNick its hard to keep up with all the fancy computer finished art. Not to mention all the published artists on here. You can be on my team all I use is pens pencils and one shot. Call me old fashion.



Pens, pencils, ink, markers, model enamels, computers. I've stigmatized the computer so much in the past I still feel like a cheater every time I use it. I've begun to embrace it, tho, because, as busy as I am, it's the only way to finish a drawing in color for me any more. My stuff still has to have a hand drawn quality tho. I used to be locked in a very mechanical, liniar "ruled line" style and have worked for years to break free of it and only recently have felt comfortable sharing my stuff.
So, as the late President Nixon put it, "I'm not a Jock!"
(or was that Clinton?) (Let's not go there...)

 

Thank you Jigger. I did not intend to make my post as a gripe. I agree with Jigger, negative & positive feedback are good. But here on the hamb, amongst the artists, I think the dividing line between the "in" crowd & "out" crowd is very well defined. I've always hoped to create greater camaraderie between us artists.

 

Pen!! No Worries your stuff is great, The cheaters of milwaukee do all their t's by an artist who works by hand as well, his name - Rome. Actually, the work I posted here is done by hand, not computer. Old fashioned is the way to go.

 

Great show as always everyone!
I did this blower painting earlier this week. Acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
I also did this purple multi carb painting the week before. Acrylic on canvas 36 X 36

Carartnick, I RARELY ever have guys say anything about my work. Hopefully a few have enjoyed them. But I love to paint, so I'll never stop no matter if I get feedback on here or not. Have fun with all your hobbies!

 

I started on a new painting this week, my first since I broke my leg. This is the first stage of underpainting, and it might not be apparent right now, but it will have a drag racing theme when it is finished.