Welcome to the BMT 2007 ArtFair!
My contribution consists of a painting done some time ago. Long ago, before I put paintings of buttes and cars on these internets, I fancied myself as a painter of stylized images of sleek women. Yes, a kind of wayward Patrick Nagel for the 90s. (Stop snickering.) The image directly below was the result.
The painting was done from an advertising photo. It is done entirely in shades of yellow ochre, not unlike a sepia-toned vintage photograph. I haven’t looked at this one in a while but it still pleases me. It is rather small, 8×10 I believe. The frame was put on some time ago but still seems appropriate. What do you think?
Now I’ve shown you mine, show us yours.
Post ’em if you’ve got ’em.
Really interesting image but I think a link to a larger version would be good thing.
I’ll have to dig out the original image.
I’ll have to dig out the original image.
OK. We heard you the first time. 🙂
Yikes! I’m using a creaky old laptop from about the time of the Hoover administration.
Me thinks it’s time for a new one. 🙂
It’s fascinating how you do your paintings w/ minimal colours … very impressive.
I’ll be posting one today as soon as I get some batteries for my camera.
I like the sepia effect and the frame IS perfect for it.
well, I can’t stay too long at this fair–the images are not coming up on my home computer. drat.
My contribution
Click for larger image.
This picture was painted by my s-i-l. It’s a picture of Belle. An English Sheep dog my mother had a couple of years back.
Love the pink little pads and tongue … 🙂
Is this hanging in your house then if it is of FMom’s Belle?
Hi Olivia.
Yep it’s hanging in the small living room. My s-i-l will paint on just about anything. I keep telling her she should go to the local college and take some lessons.
What’s stopping her from doing that?
She just doesn’t want to. I’ve never understood why though.
Did Belle precede you living with FMom? She’s very cute and that’s a nice painting. FMom must like to look at it and remember her furry friend.
Hi Mary.
Belle was still here when I first moved back. She passed away shortly after. FMom and her were very close together.
Folk Art from my collection:
Da Santa JFI*
Snowman Banned JFI*
Wooden Bell Artist unknown: Arkansas Ozark Mountains
Red Leaf dada © 2007
*[JFI AKA dada’s bro]
click images to enlarge.
I like em dada. Pretty cool. 🙂
It took me a moment to get the banned part 🙂
Very nice.
RED LEAF is ultra nice. It`s a simple black & white & color mood which draws you in to inspect the color, then opens the door to outside.
Excellent!!
I like the red leaf very much – just stared at it for a while in the dark, then shut my eyes. The retinal after tracings left make the limb and leaf glow and seem to move.
I guess my cache was stuffed like those electric pencil sharpeners when no one empties the shavings.
someone tell me how to post an image here. my first effort failed, taking the code from photobucket.
If you use the HTML tag you have to delete the a href at the beginning and the /a at the end.
use this code w/ the URL from PB:
< img width=400 src= “URL HERE” >
close brackets
see HERE for detailed info, courtesy of your friends at the BT fOtofair2006
Remember: Preview is your friend
Thanks, dada. Did you help arrange the fotofair stuff?
Andi, Nag, FM, Head…lots of help…Olivia did all the heavy lifting…
Thanks to you (and to all) for helping to put together the fotofair arrangements, which made things easy for this thread.
This is a huge painting done by my 25 y.o. son, and below are some close-ups of detail. It’s very cool to study at length.
How long did it take him to do this? Is it in your house or did he take it with him?
I think this took him about a week. It’s roughly 8ft x 5 ft. He’s got more but he has to paint them sideways because they’re too big to stand up in his house, and they’re stacked against the wall so I couldn’t take pics of them. 🙁
This is wonderful work!
Beautiful!!!!
His wife, my daughter in law, gave me this abstract that she did in high school. I love the colors and the flow in this one. She’s brilliant.
She also does this thing that at first glance looks gawdy but it turns out looking really cool. She gets trash that people are throwing away and covers it thusly:
This is a storage cube that holds their stereo but she has done desks, tables etc. also and they’re fun and striking.
Those are both fascinating. I like the intricacy of her ‘junk’ art.
should this work,something should self-destruct in 5 minutes..and yes, it is a rerun from a palooza on orange ant farm, but ’tis my only digitalized work:
http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e336/MissDevore/?action=view¤t=SANY0007.jpg
But now I can see it well. Very nicely done!
a la Roger Fry—I tied it into the big buttes theme!
That is very nice!
very nice!
Sheesh!
My connection went down right after I posted the diary. So I deleted and will post them here instead.
Nice work everyone :O)
Cool! I want that skeleton on the hood of my Mazda.
Drive it down. I’ll supply the paint and the beer ;o) Actually this one is on the trunk of a ’67 Chevelle.
Super Supersoling,I would imagine you`re extremely busy with your talent. It boggles me how one does this kind of artwork because you have to have the finished work in your head to know what to mask for a layer but retain mentally where the exposed areas will be when unmasked & on & on. I`m very impressed, & I`ve seen a lot of artwork of this nature. Do you have a website for your business.
Thanks KNUCKLEHEAD,
used to have a site, but since I do this stuff on the side now I let it slip. Also, haven’t been diligent about taking photos of all my work. There’s quite a few out there that I have no record of. I need to keep em for the portfolio.
As far as mental retention or lack of it in my case goes ;o), it depends on the job and the customer. Sometimes I create a rough rendition that I follow. Other times the customer chooses something that they’ve seen and want copied. Other times, the times I like the most despite the pressure, I get a free hand from the customer and I might start with a general idea of colors and shapes but it pretty much takes on a life of it’s own and I create and fill as I go.
I hope all’s well in the west :o)
super…those are…well…super!
I still love to see well painted cars…a bit of recidivism to my fascination w/ hot rods and racing.
kudos!
Thanks!
Hot Rods and racing are one part of American culture and history that I can embrace.
That skull would look amazing on a purple volvo wagon!
I must disagree :o)
A neon orange and teal surfboard with palm trees would look good on a purple Vovo wagon. But if you insist, take my instructions to Boran above and reverse them, driving up instead of down. I’ll supply the paint and the beer. But in your son’s case, I’ll also supply a pocket to keep his keys in before I send him home ;o)
Good father that you are. 🙂
Thank goodness. I thought that maybe you were embracing the mimimalist school with that other diary — white on white. Ilike this much better.
I like the third from the bottom — the greens/blue combination is my favorite. Although I’d like to buy a used hearse and put the skull on it 🙂
A used hearse? There’s a deep message somewhere in there :o)
I actually owned a 1951 Chevy Ambulance in my early twenties. I was unique among my peers…to say the least ;o) And I prefer the message behind an ambulance as opposed to a hearse.
Thanks :o)
Sorry to not having these in a diary, but I got caught up in “heavy wind clean-up duty” here. These are a series of etchings done by an old friend. Meyer Ryshpan was his name & he`s a man I`ll never forget. I spent many years with him talking about life in general & his philosophy on things greatly influenced my way of thinking.
I`ll be posting this series for you to see, as the first people to view them publicly. It was with great surprise & honor when he gave me these plates. they are by reason of their nature, one of a kind. Any subsequent prints from these plates would be second generation. Etchings are made by covering a zinc plate with wax, then scribing through the wax with a very sharp scribe tool. The plate is then washed in acid which burns away the zinc, but only where it was exposed by the scribing. The wax is then cleaned off & the plate is ready to be inked & printed. This is basically a negative, for when it`s printed the true beauty of it comes out. Having had these plates in my possesion for over 25 years, & not being able to find how or where to print them, I decided to photograph them in order to share them with you.
If any of the tribe has a comment on these, I will post another etching for your trouble. thank you.
these are beautiful Head! what a treasure.
have you contacted any of the Art schools around LA…they could help you find a good art based lithography printer I’d bet.
Yes, dada had a good suggestion. Has any of his work been shown? They are wonderful.
None of these etchings have been seen outside of family. His oils were being sold last time I was with him. I lived with his family for years when I was living with his grand-daughter. I spent a lot of time with him in his studio, talking about his life as a jew in Europe. I was his driver in later years to go to New York, in the Catskills where family had a camp for summer stock. We would go in late spring & plant a huge vegetable garden to supply the student actors with fresh veggies during their stay at the camp. There was a large hotel, part of the camp where staff lived & about a dozen cabins for students. That`s where I set up a darkroom for black & white. I haven`t talked to the remaining members of the family due to my relationship with the grand-daughter that turned bad, although I know that Meyer`s wife who is now over 100 years old is still living. Also an artist, [I would listen in on the intellectual arguments on socialism versus communism] she was also a very dear lady. Daisey was her name & she said she would live a long life as long as she ate a peanut a day, which she did.
These are really lovely just as they are – without being printed. What a treasure, and what an interesting couple. It would be neat to find out what became of Daisey.
Second Nature
As I said above, she`s still kicking at over 100 years old.
Hi KNUCKLEHEAD, I am Meyer Ryshpan’s great grandson. What is your name?
Here`s another where you can see his signature mirrored
Here`s one Olivia. This is from a little farm I`ve been to with Meyer & Daisey & their grand-daughter Inga, my 15 year girlfriend. This used to belong to them.
that one looks a lot like my brother
peace
Is that you…Santy Claus? LOL!
What a cool lookin dude you have for a brother Dada. The kinda dude you might run into at a biker meet, or a trap line above the timber line in the Rockies, or…by a fireplace in late December ;o)
This one would look more like your brother. The first one was done in the 40`s while I know for a fact he did this one in 1973. Your brother looks like a real cool “head”. A “Deadhead”. That was a good one dada. It took me by surprise.
Here`s a very interesting link about Meyer & his brother Ruben as kids. I do remember their silk screening company, talking with Meyer. They were in business producing silk screened ties, till ties went the way of the outhouse.
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:dhfoebHIh6gJ:www.marianneackerman.com/Part3.pdf+Meyer+Ryshpan&am
p;hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4
I thought I would share with you the secret world of ePlripusMedia artwork.
I have a couple of contributions over there in that diary. I know you all think of them as being so serious, but when it comes to art ePM members can be a bit flakey. 🙂
I love that website! We had a ton of fun last year creating flake after flake after flake…
These are ALL amazing KH — thanks for sharing them.
My grandpa did a self-portrait titled Blue Shirt around 1950. Sorry I’m so late to the party. My life has become hectic for awhile. Nice work, everyone.
Nurture Creature
Nurture Creature was originally created by nature. Then, since I was disinclined to add it to the woodstove, it has since remained as a decorative piece.
After capturing the image with a digital shot, I used PhotoShop to carve away the non-image part.
This was one of my first attempts at “lasso-ing.” So I’m hoping to improve on my hand-eye coordination on further attempts with this same project. But for now, this will have to do.
Congratulations to all above who have contributed such interesting and unusual works to ArtFair 2007
That`s a nice one NDD. It`s nice to be able to save the animals , beasts & birds we see in the natural breakdown of being transferred to the next level. Here`s an eagle, perched.
these works of art, whether theirs or someone elses. It was worth every second (and there were a whole lot of them) of dial-up loading to see them.
Thanks to you, Andi, and to all who participated here. It was fascinating to see the posted artworks, even with my slow dial up.
Boo:
I like your Deco period worker glorification style. You used it well on the female form for forms sake. Neat.
Here are a couple of my thingies. The first is a bit of serendipity under heat I made that I have come to love for the form. The second, a snow-flake, graced our solstice bush this season.
Enjoy.
I host this page for a friend who produced this large portfolio of mail art in the early 1970’s.
Stuart Horn – Northwest Mounted Valise
I just realized that there is real art in our house.
This was done by my son’s girlfriend. She’s a student at a prominent NY art school. The thing I think of when I look at this is love…plain and simple. Ease and comfort with one another. And that’s how they are with each other. She did a beautiful job of capturing the essence of the love they share.
Now I’m vaklempt! Tawk amongst yourselves :o) :sniff:
Hi Knuclehead (T.A), This is Meyer’s daughter Joan. It’s great to have finally found you again after all this time. I recently came across this website after doing an internet search for Daisy Ryshpan. I’ve noticed that you have been posting some of my father’s work. If you remember correctly, you promised about 10-15 years ago to return this work to our family. With Daisy’s recent passing, and this artwork being in the estate we would appreciate it if you could return to us all of the original etching plates. Thank-you very much. Oh, and Inga says hi to Jeremiah Boswell
Hi Joan-
I understand there is some kind of dispute here and I think I understand what is going on. But I want you to understand that people that post here have a total expectation of privacy about their personal identities. Therefore, you cannot post people’s real names without their consent. For this reason I am going to have to erase posts you have made that violate this rule. I want you to know that I am not censoring you or asking you to stop trying to communicate with KNUCKLEHEAD. You can repost your requests without identifying information in them. Thank you.
Sorry, corrections made.
Hi Knucklehead,
This is Joan again (Meyer Ryshpan’s daughter). I’m surprised and disappointed that you haven’t contacted me yet concerning the return of my dad’s etching plates. I know that I’ve let this slide for years, but it can;t wait any longer. Please, let’s try to conclude this amicably.
I’m awaiting your prompt response!