Damn Jeff, sometimes you make me want to hit the drawing board and other times you make me want to throw in the towel. Nice work.
I don't know what happened, but one of my posted vanished! I was posting stuff at 2 in the morning though... I might not have been paying attention. Here's the last one. Awesome work as usual, everyone. Brush, love your digital work, and Buick59, you've got a good eye for photography.
BDRAKE/ NEVER throw in the towel!!!!! I'm gonna come down there and give ya slap! Now git yer pens a flapp'in and yer mouse a klick'in and get something on this post!!!...........c'mon....were waiting!!!!.....
i dig it ALL fellas! but LOSTPARTS, i GOTTA mave me one like that. i got a million HOTWHEELS. BRUSH. those are KILLER. i can't wait to see the one yer doin for me. too kewl!!!
....and speaking of no-shows...where the hell is Johnney Ace? Tuck? Foiled Again....and the rest of that motley crue?..Hey where is Shortbus? ....Great work so far people!!!!!
Have you ever been in a spot where you want to try something new to you, while a****st Pros? Maybe I have some skills with spraying paint, but I found my shelf in the midst of a room full of Pinheads in DETROIT. I had come with the intent to watch, ask questions and give the little hairy sticks a go. But as I watched all around, Guys n Gals are pulling lines, which all look so sweet. I knew from fumbling at home by myself, that if I where to pull my hands out of my pockets my neon greenness will glow across the room. I watched a kind, soft-spoken man pull Blue on blue 1/16 lines. One side then the other, perfect cemitree all the way down with out a pause, finished it with several vertical lines 1/16 apart, then with a couple more stokes it turns into a face. And then another fellow says "hey are you ready to jump in" ... No not yet I reply, in self-defence. He understands I think, I hope, although I had mentioned to him earlier I was coming to the meet and I was going to lean on him for guidance. But after watching some more, listening to the experience talk about different tips and tricks. I wanted to what till I got home, to attempt this Artform again. Yet another fellow walks up and asks, where are you from, why arent you painting? Oh I m just here observing, this is new to me. He grabs a blank and says Im starting another one; Ill show you my way of doing things. Sure that cant hurt. Thats what Im here for, to learn, right. He starts with the basics explains tools, supplies, prep.and lay out, how to hold the brush depending on what type of lines your doing. Then he loads the brush, lets (makes) me feel the loaded brush on the pallet. Then he pulls lines giving instructions all the while. It was a very good lesson and I was grateful he took the time to explain everything to me. ... But then this brush is held in front of me HERE DO SOMETHING. Dam there is still people here, and they all have eyes. But this fellow had gave so much time to me, I felt I owed him some effort, and hell Im in a foreign country, if I become the "Jams entertainment", I can hide in my home country the rest of my life Eh! So I took the brush and he stepped back. I made some pitiful strokes and turned to see him walk away to leave me experiment on my own. So then some more over reduced strokes followed by some off angle strokes. People would p*** behind me, stop look, but didnt laugh (thanks) and some would offer more suggestions. All in all everyone was great, several approached me to help me over the day. I really had nothing to fear, this was a safe bunch to expose my non-abilities. The kicker was a door prize of a brush and a pinhead saying dont leave without your panel. Through the day he had produce several panels and one he had made special with REBEL across the bottom. I have mentioned no names, you know who you are. I want to Thank the hosts and ALL attendants, you are a great group! Thanks for the clever gentle nudge, to get me pulling some paint. And Thank you to my panel donor, it will hang in this room http://rebel-air.net/_wsn/page15.html http://rebel-air.net/_wsn/page16.html (The colours will fit here well) REBEL / Ed Ryall ... A couple pics from Detroit http://novogate.com/forums/483/user/2773/9973.jpg http://novogate.com/forums/483/user/2773/9976.jpg http://novogate.com/forums/483/user/2773/9975.jpg http://novogate.com/forums/483/user/2773/9974.jpg
Rebel: We've all made the mistakes your going to make,and we wipe it off and try again. And if we could figure out how to get paid for the paint we wipe off,we would be RICH ! Hopefully things are not so Mysterious now, and you learned enough to make your progress a little easier.
kustombuilder i think i have a couple of both hotwheel prints left they are 24x36 and on hevey watercolor paper. heres the other one i did for matt picalo www.badenuf.com
I'll post these two pics but I have to also post this disclaimer for anyone that looks at them! ... these are literally my first two attempts at pinstriping and I didn't even practice lines before starting these designs, so they are far from perfect. I'm posting them mainly so that anyone out there thinking of striping at all may see them as an example of a complete beginner's work and then decide to take that first step of picking up the brush. There are so many talented stipers on this board and it's a little intimidating to put up anything less than amazing in their presence, but I'm hoping that someone might see my first attempt and offer me some pointers. I've been practicing just about every night and it does get easier. If there's anyone in the Baltimore area on here that stripes and wants to come to my house for beer and a little striping practice i'd love to learn next to someone with a little experience. The orange and red one is my favorite although my hubby put a catalog on top of it not realizing it wasn't dry and some of the paint pulled off when I picked the catalog up : ( Stacey
Alright, threw this together real quick from an old inking I pulled out of the cabinet. It was to cold out for lunch anyway.
Heya Kojack......I had one of my posts vanish too. What I wanted to say in it was that the pic you tok of the black hood with the stripes is an amazing piece!!! I love it man! Mike
Stacey, I like the first one, it's got an organic look to it that's real refreshing, I see so much pinstriping on these Friday Art Posts that after a while it all starts to look the same, nice to see something a little different. Paul
Stacey: For some reason,Women can pick up Striping quicker than Men.I don't know why. What are you using for brushes? There are a few Stripers around the MD area, Skate Fink is the first to come to mind,I know there are others. The other suggestions I can offer is try to include some longer lines, S shapes,and tighter curves in you designs.I'm sure that will come with experience. Oh,and Practice,Practice,Practice.
I'm using an xcaliber 00 and one-shot reduced with mineral sprits at the moment. I plan to buy a mack next to see what that feels like and get a finer xcaliber as well. The hard turns are the part that are evading me the most at the moment. The brush wants to kick out on me. I can do gentle, sweeping curves it's the tight ones that are the hardest. Stacey
Monkey, I posted that pic in the weekend art show a couple of weeks ago.(with mad props, yo) I still just stare at it and drool... Everyone else, great work (as usual). Some new stuff...
Heya Shortbus.....are those done withthe Holga? Im taking a color cl*** and alternative photocl*** this semester. And one of the cl***es requires us to buy a holga. Man those ****ty russian camera's do good stuff. I also won't be atthe GNRS seems that if I miss 3 days in one of my cl***es that I fail the course. I better not push my luck the second week of school. Mike
This is something I did on the computer just messin' around. Not sure if it really justifies as "art". Mike, recognize the car?
OK, here's my first contribution. I havent airbrushed for about 15 years so I thought I would give it a go and this is the first T-shirt I did, so I thought I would do something familiar free hand ...
Yeah Mike. It's a Holga. I use tri-x 320 for b/w and 400nc (c-41) for the color stuff. There are some steps to take to lightproof them. They leak light. Check your PMs for some links. R
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