Art & Inspiration //////Early Friday Art Show\\\\\

CHICKEN!!!! What's goin on mang? Gotta love the shots of the BigT-meister in the roadster. LOL

(sing it with me ala Tommy Boy - style)

Big guy in a lit-tle car. Big guy in a lit-tle car. LOL

 

This place is cool.

Great start everyone. Detroit Dino,... love those paintings!

SeanB, feed us more! That drawing is Grrrrrrrrreat!

Okay, I'm some body who can appreciate a lot of cars from an aesthetic point of view. Certain cars from nearly every decade has models I can appreciate.
Hot Rods, traditional hot rods, for a host of reasons, exemplify the purity, artistry
and all out raw power of the automotive hobby.
I also like muscle cars, in their 'direct from the factory' form. Little tweaks here and there are Okay but there's a point when enough is enough.

Witness, "The Air Stopper" (I'm soooo sick of Cowl Induction hoods)





Hot Rod stuff still to come. Maybe on Friday even...

 

Just today, I went back to work on my "Teahupoo" Tiki. I named it after the big wave spot in Tahiti (picture below of Laird Hamiltons epic wave). It's real name is Ku, he is mostly known as the Tiki of War, but also a protector, and sometimes credited as the God of Fishing and Farming.

I decided to carve Ku after watching "Riding Giants" for the hundredth time. (check it out, really amazing). These guys are practically charging into battle and riding waves that have taken lives before them. I imagine this is what you face would look like if you actually had the skill and balls to surf a place like that.(Youtube it if you can)

I carved it and left it in wax form for about 3 months or so. When I finally cast it, the bottom had a huge chunk missing on one side which had to be rebuilt and shaped in metal. (I should have been taking photo's back then)
What I ended up with was a 120gram solid chunk of silver. It was so big and thick that I couldn't get a good wax out of it.

I've dug out the back side and trimmed it down to about 99grams. I think I'll try molding it, then see where I'm at. My guess is that it will reproduce somewhere around 85-90 grams. I'm ready to get back to wax form to play with it again. Really didn't know much when I first carved this baby. I plan for this to be available as either a pendant or a ring.

here's where I stopped today.

 

wanted to contribute to the fun. First time I've played with this... so look forward for some more fun to come from the ol' BIFFer

Enjoy!

 

hey guys great stuff this week so far. pacheco, really cool. jane, i love everything you do. james owens, you're absolutely awesome. sean b, great stuff. the airbrushed t-shirt is unreal. fowler5, real cool pickem up. bold adventure, looking good. rtrimmer, nice 55. hidden, real cool. teisco, great job. roger jetter, i always love youre pen and ink. fourtypickup, love the 57's. cabellero, stuff looks great brutha man. nix66, looks great. lowcab, i love it. a32flathead, awesome photos. and everyone else i missed, great stuff. there are just way too many to list. anyhow, here's one scarry larry commissioned me to do of him and the mrs in his 32. colored pencil on 16x20.

zombie

 

Is it just me, or does Big T look hell of a lot like Will Ferrell?



Great stuff as usual guys. A lot of the work on here are amazing.

 

zombie - bad ass as usual!!!

 

Great posts this week everyone. I am running out of colored stuff to post so here's a few oldies I did back around 96-98 timeframe.

Jigger, awesome pic but I hear ya on the air stopper cowl hood thingie, brother!
Zombie! Magnificent stuff! Sweeeet!





As you can see, ballpoint pen on scrap paper while sitting in cubicle hell!!!!!! Hope you like em!

 

I love what all you guys are doing!

Pacheco,Hidden,ToddJ, Zombie your killin' me!

Joel

 

Pacheco...thanx man...I sure like the "simplicity" of your stuff...
ToddJ...I'll take a compliment from an Iowan...grew up there myself...
and Zombie...I am honored...your stuff always blows me away...

Of course, I feel honored just being in the prescence of soo-oooooooo much talent here it's almost surreal...

Here's another of those pen and inks for your perusal...

R-

 

Hi Guys, too much great stuff as always!
Here's an old one - Limey Steve's pick up from last year's LimeWorks Christmas card.

 

hey, is your handle a reference to the radio show with Bogart and Bacall back in the late 40's?

great art show!

 

I appreciate where you guys are coming from but I'm throwing in my two cents on cowl induction hoods...

Cowl induction hoods = LOTS of undisturbed, cool fresh air.

LOTS of undisturbed, cool fresh air = more horsepower.

More horsepower = first across the finish line.

First across the finish line = getting laid.

Getting laid is good.

I LIKE cowl induction hoods.

 

Zombie, Todd J thanks for the mention. Getting a mention on here is like winning an award. You guys are the real artist and seeing your stuff really pushes new guys like me to do better and nicer work.

 

ToddJ - those are very cool.
CraigR - Sweet!
Jigger - you have such a cool true "drawing" style. Always love to see your stuff.
Everybody good show.

 

That's some funny stuff right there. Nicely drawn, deftly executed.

 

Thanks for the kind words Slide, ToddJ & Zombie.

ToddJ...I like your black & white drawings

Zombie...your highlights POP!

Hey Jeff how bout we just rename it "Thursday Art Show" Just kiddin. I agree if the title is "Friday Art Show" it should start on Friday!

 

Yes it is! I usually have to explain it when some one asks then I get a shrug...kinda like when you quote a favorite line from a movie that nobody gets. From "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"..Sundance to the mine owner in Bolivia after he misses a pistol shot at a tin can "Can I move?", Butch says "let him move, Okay, just let him move!", Sundance wheels around and hits the can with the last 5 shots...see I told 'ya...

 

Pacheco - Thanks for the kind words - I've been diggin' your clean perfectly proportioned pieces - could you shed a little light on your technique? Like what stage are they scanned - as sketches or finished art?
Zombie - The detail blows my mind!! Nice one Mate!
Cheers all
CraigR

 

But it's Friday here in Oz when it's Thursday there...

 

CraigR - they are finished inked pieces...I scan them in and clean up places that plugged or are perfectly straight. I have a gallery at home and frame my original pen & inks.
Thanks
Gabe

 

Acrochicken:
Dont let them tell you photography isnt art
that motion shot is ultra cool.

 

I second that. But, I think Jeff and I will be like those grumpy old men at Hershey that didn't want that show to start before friday. We go on Tues now!

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Zombie, Kick ass! Pacheco, love it, EVERYONE else.. Really nice stuff!

only one new thing this week, a lonely stripe job on a "Bullet Mustang" so.. I walked through the shop and photographed some (not all) of the Flame jobs Wade Hughes and I have done. Enjoy.

Steve Style Stang' (The pinstripe fades from orange to red)








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Flames.. Some traditional, some new, some really beautiful jobs, some questionable. (Billet warning)

Cruising in Gatlinburg


Bob one-E


Gai Wilson collection. This shot was set up at 5 am and taken at dawn.


my first flame job I was "allowed" to do for Bobby Alloway


The "Streve Tracy" Chrome-zilla


Bottom of Chromezilla


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Wades wagon,


Did this car for Rutterz hot rods. I always did like it.




Wades Grandsons Stroller


Another one of my favorites,


Gai Wilson's 32 roadster, was a "Great 8" car. and maybe my favorite!


Wilson's matching Bike. I HATE PAINTING MOTORCYCLES

 

Guy wanted this car to look 70's


killer line up!


here's our "hottest" set of flames!

Se the 33 roadster on the right? It buned to the ground in Allowats shop fire. I was able to get the MELTED Du-val windshield and wade got the head light with what was left of the flame job! This pic doesn't show it, but the windshield is warpped pratty bad and it melted around the steering colum!




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And one I did TEN years ago in college! 1998 (guash on Ill board)


Joshua Shaw

 

.....eennnn????? He nailed the car and actually made Larry look a little slicker but WOA! Zombie Dude..... you totally freakin' missed it on Kim. She's a babe!!!






(awesome piece. I'll get to see it in "person!")

 

Hey Jeff~
Am i right to assume, that by this I will no longer be welcome to post my artwork on the Friday Art Show?

 

Flames & Primer
I got a really late start this week
but here's what I have been working on.

 

GaryC...Perfect Stance on that Bad boy!

 

Nice Biff.

Got to love a '54 Chevy truck with a boy and his dog and grandma's quilt. Love the little red wagon in the back as well. Just need a Coke and it could be a Norman Rockwell! If that ain't where I grew up...I was about that age when my mom brought home her '54 that I now have!