Art & Inspiration \\\***Friday Art Show - 09/27/07***///

Here's new photoshop I did.



-Olli

 

Yo Ryan, those look great. I know a Model A coupe that wants you to draw it.

 

"I can say I’ve been a fan of your work since i saw the Lords of Acid cover and even with a computer I don’t know if I can achieve your perfection"

Damn, I used to rock that to death. Now with kids and Christ in my life, I just can't do it anymore, but those are some really wicked beats.

 

meteor Those paintings are really cool. Do you have any repros of those that you are selling?
COOP666 Painting looks really good. I agree that computers are taking a bit of that "raw feel" out of a lot of art work. I know that I am mostly using illustrator now and I find myself trying to replicate a distressed effect on my work. Buy anyways, the painting looks really good.
As for everybody else, it's another great week. Everybody on this site always pushes me to new levels.

 

Here's one I dug out of my RETRO ART file. I think I did this one in 1982. I wound up donating it
for a prize at a car show. Just want to say thanks to all the artists on here for bringing me back
to the art that I love. Thanks for the compliments also.

BR

 

Here's is some signage I designed for our header flanges.



And here's a poster I designed for our cd release party.

 

lots o' killer stuff!

 

Some stuff I have been doing for the new DVD ...Nothing like you real artist but I think its neat..I heart weezner for letting me use frank-n-norm..




We hope to make these into limited posters signed by Von Franco and maybe Norm himself..

 

Don't worry, I wasn't insulted. but i was curious to know just what you meant.

I get what you're saying, and I agree to a certain extent. However, when I transfer a small image I've drawn to a large canvas, I always find myself making adjustments and changes along the way, as the change in scale will sometimes make images look a little screwy without that adjustment. Also the projector never gives a clean perfect image, so there is a lot of interprtation going on, especially when you are painting directly over the image, with no preliminary guides.

I love painting precisely because I've already made all the left-brain decisions by the time i get to the canvas, and I can go all right-brain and just dig on the application of paint and wrestling with the brush. It's a very zen thing, and kinda how I imagine pinstripers feel when they get into a groove throwing down those beautiful perfect lines.

 

I got nothin'

Here is an old illustration for the new guys to see.

 

Killer show guys !! Some striping from me

 

And illustration for a new possible t-shirt for me ?

 

GREAT WORK THIS WEEK EVERYONE!
Here are my contributions, a couple versions of a 64 Polora wagon for a customer, i have overlays for a couple different styles of wheels that go with them. Also a couple older customer cars, 55 Chevy and 31 Model A. All prisma color

 

Here's a couple more for the week tho I may post them again at a later date.


This was a brainstorm idea for a mildly modified '62-'63 Lincoln:



...and here's a sneak peek at an upcoming full color illustration of one of my favorite customs...Ryan recently reviewed these "early" jobs:

 

Nothing new, just a couple of old before and after photochops. Great stuff from everybody this week!

 

Here is the Billetproof flyer for Detroit 2008

 

Yeah, I know what you mean; it's that stage in painting where you find yourself transcending all space and time...

 

Ohh man - the fix......I love when time melts away and it's just you and the artwork.

Pure heaven.

 

Awesome show everyone!

Rocky Jr, Mask, Ryzart.... really cool pinstripping.
Jane, Dave, Robe, Meteor, Gary, I dig your stuff.
Bumpstick, that's a great poster, I love your color palette and style. I'll be there!

This week it's gonna be an old one for me. Hope you like fins....




Phil

 

Heres one I recently did on a cycle.
Mike

 

As far as using the computer to do your art, I leave that to people that can do it. I don't even want to start learning all that. I can see where I could use it, but it's not me. I would use a projector if it was something really big. I find that when you don't use guides and templates, you have to take a deep breath, have some steady nerves to get a ink line straight. Almost like pinstriping. Thats why I don't mind shakey lines sometimes, looks more human like you say. With that said, I marvel at computer art and how perfect it can be.
I personally draw everything by hand , and sometimes trace a drawing I already did. But I don't like too. It's like music and the first take or recording. It's usually the best because all the original energy ain't been sucked out yet. I will throw things in the pile if I can't improve on the original "energy".
Heres a bunch of one-offs, from the pile. Everything from nakid women to the amazing belt drive motorcycle powered modified!
A really good art show, I'm just sittin down to it......

 

...nuthin' new from me this week...but this is my brother's work. He got 85% of the artistic talent in the family.. the other 3 of us each got 5%. It's a tiny watercolor { i think} 'bout 4" X 6" that he did for an outhouse calendar. I own the original .

 

I thought I'd chime in on this one. I do most of my work in Photoshop (but it's just the tool I'm most comfortable with) You still have to have the idea. I generally like to flesh out the idea in sketch form, scan it in and the use it as a roadmap and less of a template. The computer frees me up to take an idea in any direction I prefer. Trust me, there are still 'happy accidents'. This is where I started:



This has alway been one of my favorite threads on the HAMB. How 'bout an "Art Tech Week"? -stick

 

I've done a lot of step-by-step writeups on my blog. They are all here, scroll to the bottom and work your way up:

http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/search/label/paintblogging

http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/2005/08/paintblogging-pt-1.html

This post is a pretty detailed about the way that I use photoshop in combination with sketches to figure out composition and start a big painting:

http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/2005/09/paintblogging-ii-porkys-revenge.html

 

Coop, That Tudor makes me wet my pants a little every time I see it...

 

Wow I used to fly that model 8 a lot. Last time I layed eyes on it it was tooling across the Az desert and I was in formation along side in mine, 1571K. Aviation is such a small world!

 

Perhaps you should visit your physician...

 

I do not post very much on here but I am going to try to from now on.Here are a few new things from this week for me........
Monster racing fuel





Hell Fire racing fuel




and just for fun....

 

Cool stuff everyone.

I'm slowly digging my way back through.

Here's a new offering from me.

"Piss on This Burg" Acrylic on canvas 11"x14"

For the Robot show in Atlanta.