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shaun

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to KMMI77)

Nice paintings, C. The lake reminds of camping in northern Alberta.

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

Thanks Shaun, it gives me great pleasure to post these here

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to c)

my spot

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to c)

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Thanks Shaun, it gives me great pleasure to post these here

Great night skies. Still waiting for the aqautic theme

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KMMI77

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to c)

I'm really enjoying your pictures c. How big are they?

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Escribano

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to c)

Those are really good, C

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 16 2013 11:57:30

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to Escribano)

Thankyou Escribano
I have used photos to do prep work on lots of paintings
That has led me to the hobby of photography
Ill post one or two paintings that are inspired from photos.

Most of these paintings are feature wall size ..say 30 by 40 inches
here is a fish for you Estebanana , or should I say here was a fish

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to c)

photo inspired

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to c)

from a photo of local town grain elevator that is now torn down as it was starting
to lean over

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

I've been going through things trying to pack, here's an oldie from 1988...before I actually figured out how to draw.

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

Mid 1990' painting.

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Leñador

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

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The amount of talent in this forum aside from guitar playing always astounds me.

Second that, this is all really great stuff.

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

If I had a hobby besides causing trouble on the foro, it would be making sumi paintings of rayguns. I gots dozens of these drawings.

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gj Michelob

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to estebanana)

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I've been going through things trying to pack, here's an oldie from 1988...before I actually figured out how to draw.

Stephen, I must say that it seems to me, looking at this pencil work you posted, that it would have been better if you had not figure out how to draw.

That is lovely, really, lovely.

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

Thank you GJ, but I can draw realistically much better now, just don't have the time. I do love to draw, maybe I can take break from 3d work, as in guitars at some point and paint.

You have to pick your battles.

Here's a small landscape in the"dillatante style" from 2001~

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gj Michelob

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to estebanana)

I have a newly found respect for you, and this puts all your words and work into a very different perspective... you truly are a talented artist.

Now... if you can find a way to bring your artistic soul into your [already fine] guitars, then they wil be fabulous.

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Ricardo

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to estebanana)

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ORIGINAL: estebanana

Mid 1990' painting.

THats pretty good...but gosh the whited out face disturbs. Why????

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

That is a sticker. You buy the painting you peel it off.

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Ricardo

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to estebanana)

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That is a sticker. You buy the painting you peel it off.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 17 2013 11:49:38

Ruphus

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

It is clearly tracable that these last two images have not been produced by chimps, elephants or orcas.
They are just too demanding for that. Definitly.

That landscape still appears too endeavored though, with a bungled background trying to cover break-outs of a pole, the sky intending to appear more remote to the right side, etc.
It takes of the arbitrariness by revealing kinds of settlement.

Things must come up more like hiccups to be authentic; I suppose as a layman.
Have you left out the absinthe drinking, before start?

Maybe you should start with channelling Carrel first ( or what´s the guys name again who used to throw tubes against the canvas. THAT´s what I´d call creativity!)
That technique could be accomplished even soberly I guess.

The second picture matches the kind bank department managers like to hang into their offices for a slick reputation.

What is its title? "You just don´t get it" maybe? Or "Sunday evening right before Tuesday noon with bondage"?

Anyway, very impressive! ;O) ... Or was that "expressive" ..., I just keep mixing things up.

> clears throat< :O|

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

For the aerospace engineers in the crowd:

Biomass Bomber

A conceptual project that I was thinking of but never really expected to get funded. The idea was for a compost heap in the silhouette of a flying wing bomber. It would be installed in a situation where the topography would allow it be seen from a precipice or hilltop so the viewer would look down on the outline from above, reversing the idea that a bomber is menacing the viewer by flying over them. A reversal of power.

The piece would be made with a bordering low fence in the bomber outline to retain the biomass compost inside the shape of the bomber. The exact dimensions of the stealth flying wing aircraft would be used. The compostable material would be available for community gardens, so it would go in situ with a community garden.

During WWII the US government encouraged people to start gardens at home called "Victory Gardens", the Biomass Bomber would be a response to VG and also a component of a bigger scheme called a Peace Garden

.....but then just as I was catching the eye of the curatorial contacts I have I decided to make guitars for six months and take a break from persuing the art career. That was many, many years ago and the six months has elapsed into more than 15 years...

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

Book of Flight

I worked on a this book for a while, it's like a stream of consciousness, giant out of control napkin doodle. The idea is to brainstorm and free associate images with words to create juxtapositions which evoke new ideas and images. The words and images are collaged together and many of them are highly personal and relate to relationships at the time. The details like the structures of insect wings taken from science books and the dark shapes are meant to be jet engine air intakes things I was studying for structures. There are references to books I read and the names of authors next to images of words which note a relationship to the book or some point in the book. Some of the book is just about the physicality of it, the papers, the textures the satisfaction of gluing things together. It's really nothing important or of real public interest, but lots of artists have these personal thinking and processing methods that they often do not make public.

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

And always making drawings of things that fly...

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to estebanana)

Cool..... Birds my favorite subject

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marrow3

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to estebanana)

really like the last few pieces you've put up there, Stephen.
cheers,
Richard

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to c)

Bald Eagle in the sunset

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estebanana

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to shaun)

C are those called mallards? There's a bar her called the Mallard..anyway great wings.

I made some hawk wing paintings with encaustic , but I lost them years ago. The paintings were horizontal rectangles with just one outstretched wing on solid background.

Thanks Marrow3

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Ruphus

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RE: Being an artist. (in reply to c)

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ORIGINAL: c

This one is candy to my eyes.

Was it traced or done from scratch?

Ruphus

PS:
And possibly remarkable that there are two drakes. Could be a stressy moment actually.
Washing powder phosphates has shown effects on wild ducks in that there hatch too little of females, with the overhead of males having led to changes in behaviour.
Bachelor drakes increasingly display aggressive ways, trying to steal others mates by force against couples.
In the mid nineties we were walking around a lake when two ducks fell right before our feet, with a drake raping a female, so intense ignoring our presence altogether.
- Just for the zoologically interested.

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