CELLAR MEMBER ART GALLERY
belestieri has me thinkin' that maybe more of you kind folk have some art/sculpture that you'd like to show us. I have some, but i don't have any photos of any of it yet. let's see what you can do!
no stick figures, sycamore.
Uhh aint that what the dodad thread is for ??
no. it's for dodads......
i meant art as in you created it....do you think bruce made all that stuff? he's just collecting it. c'mon zippy, i know you have some doodles of tractors and such laying around! give it up!.....here's on e my son did for me. Its called "walking to your house on a sunny day"
Ok JL i raise to your challange . Now I can't draw for spit , but icome from an artistic family ,, so pic 1 is one of my moms paintings .
All pics hastely taken with a crappy digi cam ,
but this cam can take better pics ,
No stickfigures? Fine...you get a sand creation then.
I know the white ballance is WAY off and the depth of field sucks in that last pic , but i like how the apple blossom jumps out at ya. like i said i can't draw or paint for spit , but i can every now and then take what I think is a good pic :biggrin:
Originally posted by zippyt
I know the white ballance is WAY off and the depth of field sucks in that last pic , but i like how the apple blossom jumps out at ya. like i said i can't draw or paint for spit , but i can every now and then take what I think is a good pic :biggrin:
which is an art. hey, dad's a vangogh fan huh? i like the sunflowers...and the watermelon boy is awesome too. the abstract your mom did frightens me. I like that too.
all hung around your house, i presume? that's pretty cool.
Why thank you LJ . If my parents were alive they would appreciate the praise .
One last pic for the nite . I took this one in fla this past summer . Evening stroll on the sand with the wife , oliver , and a cold corona .
zippyt,
I'm very sorry your family had to withstand the indignity of an uncle who went through a Keane period ...
*****
LJ,
Quite a few of bruce's doodads are his creations. He does a lot of cool artistic things. The man has many hidden talents, and more depth than the Marianas trench.
Why thank you LJ , I had it on my desk top for a while as well
Talk about timing. I just got a digital camera as an early Christmas present, so I'll start playing with it here.
This is a bookshelf my father and I made. The Audubon print above it was mounted and framed by my parents. The wooden box on the top right was a stocking stuffer from my grandfather from last year.
Only decent picture from my recent "stupid night explorations" -- the theme was "security" or "bad security". I thought the rust was kinda cool.
LJ - that one from your son looks like "riding a great wave home on a sunny day" - sweet
Happy Monkey ... Great bookcase, although you have to reshoot the picture with better resolution on the books so we can snoop on your shelves ... I mean I can identify some Baen SF, and a Tony Hillerman, but what else you got there?
(I do not own a book case. I have enough books to stock a library. I have floors and what the apt. manager idenfied as a "linen closet".)
I'll show you some of mine. Warning: Abstraction.
Here is some color. (sorry. larger image than I thought)
Warch -- the black and white one is awesome! Is there any story behind it, or is it just complete and total abstraction? I love the angles.
Here is an intaglio print.
And here's a textile I made. Ikat technique.
Thanks. Its from a series of charcoal drawings, they are quite big, and based somewhat on landscape impressions- Prairie farmland, but I like that the scale could be almost anything, macro or micro.here's another one:
It looks like someone has microdots in their hand.
(No, I haven't been drinking...yet.)
Good stuff, Warch!
Can you tell I'm killing time till I can leave work?
I can see through the back of someone's head into their brain...
One more then its adult beverage time! sexy!
Did you guys notice that warch freakin rocks?! Too bad Ogg isn't here to explain it all to us.
That last one is a myopic hairy eyeball, with an astygmatism.
It reminds me of the cover of Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante CD.
Wolf said
zippyt,
I'm very sorry your family had to withstand the indignity of an uncle who went through a Keane period ...
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LJ,
Quite a few of bruce's doodads are his creations. He does a lot of cool artistic things. The man has many hidden talents, and more depth than the Marianas trench.
I am
not sorry that i had an uncle that went thru a Keane period . As ANY artist can tell you there is a period where they replecate other atrist works to get their methods right . He died befor he could come to fruition however. So there are DAMN few of his works in existance :(
And there is
NO denying that Bruce has the dodadest dodads of
ALL dodadnum. I pointed out to LJ that there was a dodad thread already. I took his responce to imply that he wanted to see some of the creations from fellow cellerites .
I would like to see some closeups of the joints of Griffs timber frame house. I see that as art .
And more of Beasts' pottery .
InMyHumbleOpinion .:D
I'm not at all dissing your uncle, zip, I'm sorry if it came across that way.
Speaking as someone whose artistic talents are not of the making recognizable pictures on paper with pencil variety, I respect ANY artistic endeavor.
That doesn't stop me from making fun of Keane, though. It's pretty much a life long aversion.
Wolf, Thats ok . Every body has their own tastes .
LJ liked one of my sun sets from FLA , here is another . The Schmootzy scmears are from my digi cam lense.
One of my favorite photos...I took this photo of the Sears Tower in Chicago while laying on the sidewalk on South Wacker Drive (February 1998)...
And this one would have been perfict exept for the MFin flash .
these 2 pics need some explaination . I was on a fly fishing Club outing, fishing with a friends rod that they had just finished building , the whole club ( 100+ folks ) was watching , and lo and behold i cought a fish . They all cheered for me , thus the shit eating grin on my face .
I fought the fish and got him in , they ALL cheered again . thus the bow . Then i proceded to fall flat on my ass in the river infront of god and every body. :3eye:
There was a club member with a cam on the shore with an auto winder and a telefoto lense . He got the WHOLE sequense on film. These are the only 2 he thought i would want . I told him i wanted the WHOLE thing , me falling and all .
I meen HELL if you can't laugh at your self WHO the can you laugh at ???
This was a few years ago and i haven't heard from him since .
Actually Zip, that sunset one is great, regardless of the flash issue. It has that "scorched earth" look to it, which is very cool.
zippyt -
dodadnum is the coolest word I've heard in a while - :)
This is the beam that helps keep the rafter from flexing under load while resisting spreading. I made it with a half-lap dovetail joint pegged with an oak trenail (peg).
This is the corner above the "cure couch" the knee brace keeps the weight of the roof from flexing the post above the joint for the first bent.
This is the south post on the 2nd bent. You can see the joists going into the main beam as well as the brace which protects the shouldered tongue which goes into the post.
I'm not visually artistic, I'm aurally artistic, but I've posted a couple of links to some of the work I've done and didn't get any response. Either I suck, or the file size is intimidating... :confused:
Originally posted by Elspode
I'm not visually artistic, I'm aurally artistic, but I've posted a couple of links to some of the work I've done and didn't get any response. Either I suck, or the file size is intimidating... :confused:
aurally + artistic = autistic ?
Thank you Mr. Griff !!!!!
I have seen your web site with the pics of you makeing your house . How did you get the design for the house ?? did you make it , or did you hire the design out ??
This is what I like , functional art :D :D
You're welcome zip! Considering the number of hours I've put into her, I'm always happy to explain what I've been tooling away at. I read the books and designed the frame around what we wanted to include. A professional architect would have kept me out of trouble but its not the same as doing the whole process.
Originally posted by wolf
Happy Monkey ... Great bookcase, although you have to reshoot the picture with better resolution on the books so we can snoop on your shelves ... I mean I can identify some Baen SF, and a Tony Hillerman, but what else you got there?
(I do not own a book case. I have enough books to stock a library. I have floors and what the apt. manager idenfied as a "linen closet".)
Sorry, I don't think I have any Baen SF or Tony Hillerman. It seems to be mostly Ace, Bantam, Del Rey, or Tor SF.
It is primarily everything I could get by Larry Niven and Neil Gaiman, sprinkled with some Tolkien, Asimov, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Stephen Donaldson, Neal Stephenson, and Robert Anton Wilson.
There's another (Ikea-style) bookshelf in another room. It's got textbooks, reference books, children's books, and a full shelf of books I haven't read yet. Both shelves are almost full, so my dad and I are in the process of making a new one 8 feet wide by 6 feet tall. Should last a while.
Coming up soon: My enertainment center.
Entertainment Center:
Another project my father and I made.
Computer Desk:
Keyboard drawer closed:
Dining Room Table:
Another project with my father. My mother and sister restored the chairs.
HM,
Verry nice furniture , well made , nice detailes , nice choice of wood and stains. I don't quite get the "stripper tassle "pulls on the computer desk though . But hey , to each his own .
Nice work ;) ;)
Happy Monkey is hearby invited to do all the finish work in my house.
monkey, did you do your own dovetailing? what kind of wood? maple? it's beautiful. can we get a closer look at the face of the desk...looks like it's pretty curly..is a veneer or solid? what kind of tool to make the dovetail?
Originally posted by lumberjim
monkey, did you do your own dovetailing? what kind of wood? maple? it's beautiful. can we get a closer look at the face of the desk...looks like it's pretty curly..is a veneer or solid? what kind of tool to make the dovetail?
All of the dovetailing is done by hand with handsaws and chisels. We've got specialty endgrain and crosscut saws that work wonders. The majority of the wood is cherry, oiled and waxed. The dark stuff (feet and molding of bookcase and entertainment center) is walnut. The light stuff on the sides of the drawers is pine. Peeking through from behind the books in the bookcase is poplar. All solid wood, no veneer or plywood. But the bookcase I am working on now, because of its size, will have a plywood back.
And, since you asked so politely, and I am enjoying the heck out of my new camera (and I'm proud of the work), here's a detail of the front corner of the desk, with the drawer open, and the "stripper tassle" pull prominent:
gorgeous!
I have a pine bookcase all cut awaiting time in my schedule to assemble and glue it up. It's a big one though, and I'm afraid that if I put it together in the basement, it will never come out. I built a "treasure chest" for the kids' costume collection this xmas....I'll try to get a good pic of it up here later.
Happy, where do you get your materials? I ve seen some websites that have "classified" ads for specialty wood, but don't know where to look locally....I'd like to touch and feel it before I buy it. I'd like to find some really curly maple or cherry to do a couple of wardrobes out of, but I'll need some huge pieces for the sides. Home Depot don't got it. Did you join boards to make those wider pieces? Is that table cherry too, or chestnut? Is your dad a carpenter by trade or hobby.
good work!
Muchas Thankas!
There's a lumberyard about 45 minutes away from DC that I go to. They've got a pretty good selection.
Yes, the wide boards are joined. We don't have a joiner, so it's tablesaw/router/hand plane work. The table has a cherry top and a walnut skirt and legs. Woodworking is a hobby bor both my father and I.
I assembled one of those desks with the allen wrenches and glue once ...
Originally posted by wolf
I assembled one of those desks with the allen wrenches and glue once ...
Good going, but if you really want a challenge, try a kid's toy like a swing set or a toy kitchen. In my experience they're many times harder than most furniture.
My bathroom was typical early 50's plaster with pink and black ceramic tile on the floor and walls.
Stripped it down to the studs. The baseboard metal cover was replaced with angle iron and tiles. The "Psyche" print from the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair is the medicine cabinet. 2" maple windowsill and shelf. Bath towel bar is a recycled hand rail from a stairway in an old house.
These pictures were taken when it was first finished. Considerable DoDad's have been added.:)
Cool. I need to do that some day. My bathroom is falling apart.
Is that print of Psyche a Waterhouse work? Can't quite see it clearly enough to tell.
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Originally posted by Elspode
Is that print of Psyche a Waterhouse work? Can't quite see it clearly enough to tell.
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It's from the B. Anthony collection. I bought it by mail from an ad in Playboy magazine for around $50, as I recall. You know how we old farts have memory trouble. I don't see an artist credit.
do you think she's checking her reflection to see if it makes her boobs look any bigger?
Hmmm..art gallery. Well this is industrial art. A few years ago a friend needed back surgery and since her bathroom was upstairs and she didn't want her mother to move in I figured the best solution would be a lift. It didn't have to be fancy since it was only for a few months, so I built one out of materials on hand.
A couple pieces of heavy steel channel that had guided an elevator in a private home and a steel plate with roller bearings for wheels on the top, bottom and sides with no free play. I fabricated a chair covered with an old piece of leather from a diner booth and a foot rest, attached to the steel plate. The mounting brackets were screwed through the rug and a piece of plywood over the tile floor at the bottom and cut to be firm in the doorway.
I bought 2 garage door openers but I only used the chain and remote control from the second one. This picture shows the door opener attached to the channel where it cleared the top step. like I said, it was a temporary setup and no kids in the house so it wasn't elegant. I duct taped the electric eye sender and receiver (keeps the door from closing on someone)face to face. A remote at the top and one at the bottom and some adjustments to the load limiter, and it worked flawlessly.
from my "high"school days
my hero:
eta: ( iknow the guitar LOOKS way out of proportion, but this was from his electric u-ka-lay-lee (?sp?) days. PS how the hell do you spell that?
Right cunning Bruce, right cunning.
LJ, you're saying your hero was Tiny Tim...?
"ukulele"
Who is that, Jimbo? I want to say it's either Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen or Alex Skolnick...
isn't the violin bow a giveaway?......plus I thought it looked like him.
[SIZE=1]it's jimmy page[/SIZE]
:violin: I thought it was Jimmy page.
Here's something I did on scratchboard. Maybe it belongs in the Mad Cow thread.
Ok, you want fine art. Here's a sculpture from my red/white/blue period. I call it "Marriage" because it symbolizes the struggle, frustration and impossible situation marriage is. No matter how hard he vectors out to conquer the world or how hard she pushes out to clean out the malls, they both are dragged back into the cylinder that is their private hell. They only succeed in reproducing themselves which they could do without the institution. Heavy, huh.:)
I already posted some pictures of these in
Dodads, but I thought I'd show a picture or two here, as well.
These are constructed solely of cheap Highland Invisible Tape, and colored with permanent markers. They are hollow and self-supporting. I first make all of the polygonal sides and color them, then connect them from the inside, wrap the outside, and recolor them.
I have to take some better pictures of my crochet and beadwork, but here's one that I just really, really like and am reposting despite it's appearance in the doodads thread ...
LJ, thanks for the glimpse at your "stoner period" artwork. :joint:
Bruce! that so...macgyver. very cool. you are the king of clever reuse.
Dont any of you woodworkers want to pick up work in Minnesota? I desire furniture, the clever organizational types you display and with dovetails. My current entertainment unit is a stacked pine plank.
Griff, when you were designing did you have any engineering consultations at all? Or did you just go by the books? Were there builders around that you learned from? Also, from what precedents did you borrow? What structures were you looking at when thinking up yours? (you should post a new pick of that lovely hearth.)
And Wolf, the beadwork is beautiful- you make your own statement, like the lone ranger.:)
This is a more conventional piece ... It's a prayer feather. They are used in Native American ceremonials for a variety of purposes, but most often for directing the smoke from a smudge bowl.
Detail of the beadwork:
I'd mentioned in Doodad's that I make dreamcatchers. Some of them are large, some of them are tiny. This is a tiny one. The circle is a wooden hoop with an interior diameter of one inch. The wood is covered in beadwork, divided by lines representing the four directions. The Web is formed out of the same beading thread that the beads are attached to the circle with. It's about the same thickness as common sewing thread. The stones on the necklace are turquoise chips.
Whoa nellie, I like that one, Wolf. Beautiful, absolutely stunning. :thumb:
Originally posted by warch
Griff, when you were designing did you have any engineering consultations at all? Or did you just go by the books? Were there builders around that you learned from? Also, from what precedents did you borrow? What structures were you looking at when thinking up yours? (you should post a new pick of that lovely hearth.)
(griff is completely tanked so cut him some slack.)
Zero zip nada. Just the books and a great deal of wandering around in old barns. I know some guys now who know a lot about the old ways but my house is how I made my introductions. Its kind of a cool club which my little brother
drunkin greenie sob just spent the last four hours trying to convince me to embrace. The buildings around here were paid for by Connetimicallit speculators but obviously built by folks with a background in ship building. The barns were meant for threshing wheat etc... which accounts for their large central floor which happens to make a nice living area if you convert them. More when I'm sensible
This was my first actual piece of beadwork. I had done a "test" piece trying to figure out the instructions for this technique that I found online. I have since taken several classes in this and other beading styles, but this is the one I like best. It's called peyote or gourd stitch.
I didn't have any fancy beads at that time. These are the same beads that you can buy at the KMart or the local craft store. They are larger than the higher quality beads, and also tend to be more irregular. But I was determined that I would make something, and make it I did. The feathers are found crow and bluejay.
Oh ... what is it? It's a "Talking Stick". You pass it around a ceremonial circle. Whoever holds the stick, gets to talk. You might be familiar with this from Boy or Girl Scouts, both of which have used this idea to maintain a semblance of order amongst groups of kids whose ADHD meds are running low.
So do you bead them right on the stick or do it flat and apply them later? I'm guessing you have a teeny bitty needle...very cool.
I have an African beaded necklace thats like a solid beaded cord that I'm very fond of- could never quite figure out how it was made...kind of coiled super tight around paper.
I have some amazing beaded Cree moccasins that my bro-in-law gave me. I look at them daily, but only wear them if I want to feel really blessed. I'll try to get a pic for doodads.
For round peyote, you bead around the stick. The needles are indeed teeny weeny. (if you have any experience of beeding needles, I use a #12, which is thicker than a hair, but not by much ... the thinness is both for getting through the holes in the beads, even with multiple thicknesses of thread, as well as so that the needly will be a little bit flexible.)
There is also a style called "flat peyote" which is done as a flat piece. These are usually not then sewn around anything ... they just are a flat piece of beadwork that is used in various ways. I do have an example of flat peyote already photographed for your enjoyment ...
This is a pair of earrings that look like eagle feathers. There are many variations of these around, but stylistcally I liked the pattern because it showed the splits and color variations that real eagle feathers have, and usually aren't illustrated.
I have these in a bunch of different colors. Purple, red, turqoise and blue. The pair that I wear regularly are two shades of turquoise, one translucent, the other opaque. I also have made pairs for friends in purple translucent/opaque and one with black substituted for the white, and red for the black, with reference to the pair shown here.
Most of the creative stuff I do these days is computer graphics and photography, but here's a few samples of a set of colored pencil drawings I did a couple years ago, just farting around with sketching characters (originals are about 8x10):
I didn't realize until I previewed this post that the few images I scanned were all bald men. Oh well.
Alan,
Is the one bottom right a self portrait? :)
The black paper makes the color jump and look very cool indeed.
They are all cool, HP, but straightjacket guy is awesome.
Originally posted by wolf
They are all cool, HP, but straightjacket guy is awesome.
Heheh... Thanks. As it happens, I posted that one just for you.
...and a couple other photos:
You know I like your patterned tank stairs!
I liked that eagle feather design so much, that I decided to see if I could use it in other ways. This resulted in a cigarette lighter cover. I've seen these for sale at pow-wows, but they are usually just geometric designs, or sometimes little flowers, which are a traditional peyote image. You can replace the lighter ... like most of these covers, it just slides out.
Originally posted by hot_pastrami
Here's a small photography sampling... this bunch is from when my friend's band played at a 2002 Winter Olympics venue in Salt Lake City... it was my first and only photography gig. I enjoyed the hell out of it, and one day I might actually try to drum up some business doing it on the side:
Nice job. Shooting bands working is really hard with the movement and stage lighting. Drummers are notoriously hard to shoot, hiding behind their kit and not lit well.:)
Well HELL look at what happens when you step away from the 'puter for a few days !!! Ain't we a bunch of talented Folks!! ( no sarcasism intended at ALL )
A few questions and comments .
Bruce , Cool that you would help out a friend with the chair lift . That my friend is functional art , but that is a little ass motor with plastic gears ????? Garage door openers was a good choice to work with , they have all the right stuff for some thing like that , but i would have used both motors and gear boxes . Why didn't you ??? Double redundency and all that .
Wolf , first let me say Exelant bead work !! I know that some indian beading has symbolic meaning . Does the bead work around the .50 cal round mean any thing ? If so what does it mean ?? And how the HELL can you stand to work THAT small for that long ???? i meen there is like 50 bijillion beads in those peices !!!!! Your turquoise dream catcher FUCKING ROCKS !!!!
HP , KILLER photog work !!!!! The tank stairs is a killer pic , B/W was defently the way to go with that pic . The farm sun rise is VERRY cool !!!!
Happy Monkey , No offince intended with the stripper tassle comment just my observation. Your wood work is EXEA-FUCKING-LENT !!!!!! I am a Niven fan as well . How the hell did you get those geometric shapes to be self supporting ?? Did you form them around a ballon , then deflate it ????
Wrach , WHAT the HELL are those abstract pics of ??? Inquireing minds want to know !!!!
LJ , Hell of a thread you started here !!!!! I like the "high" school drawings !!
Originally posted by zippyt
Wolf , first let me say Exelant bead work !! I know that some indian beading has symbolic meaning . Does the bead work around the .50 cal round mean any thing ? If so what does it mean ?? And how the HELL can you stand to work THAT small for that long ???? i meen there is like 50 bijillion beads in those peices !!!!! Your turquoise dream catcher FUCKING ROCKS !!!!
I've taken to calling the .50BMG "Warrior's Token" ... because I think that artwork should have a title, and "untitled" is a cop-out. Mostly what it means is proof that you can bead around anything ... (most people prove this by beading various oddly shaped glass bottles, but hell, EVERYONE does that!!) I did some work on this piece at the "Bead and Chat" at a local bead store. Strangely, none of the other ladies commented much. They just got kind of quiet and paid close attention to their own work.
The patterns that I used are somewhat traditional, but don't have any meaning in this context, per se. I have done ceremonial pieces ... like the talking stick. Bluejay is one of the communicators with spirit, and it seemed "right" for the piece and the purpose.
I have a ceremonial pipe stem that I'm still waiting for the inspiration to strike on. I have to sit with the stem for a while and figure out what it wants to be. It has a nicely placed knothole that will allow me to attach a leather thong to hang some feathers or other appropriate tokens from, but the beadwork hasn't gelled yet. Nor has what I'm supposed to do with my Cedar Courting Flute. I'm fairly sure of the colors for that one, but not the pattern.
There's also a nekked poplar staff in my downstairs closet that's in need of some attention.
On the prayer feather the symbols are the lightning, and the "windowpanes" are all the colors of creation ... not just of the four directions. I have a second prayer feather done with the four directions color correspondence that I haven't photographed yet.
The dreamcatcher represented some interesting challenges, since I had to play with increases and decreases because of the difference in interior and exterior diameters of the wooden ring. Getting the beads to lay flat enough was part of the fun.
As far as working small ... the size doesn't matter. They all go on the string one bead at a time. I do a lot of other crafts. I find it calming, and end up in kind of a meditative trance when I'm really into it. I find it relaxing.
Some pieces work up a lot more quickly that you might expect. The eagle feather earrings take about (now that I've done them a bunch of times) 6 hours a pair. The thunderbirds I'm posting below, because I realized I hadn't shown them off yet, only took about three hours. The technique used here is called "brick" stitch, which is sorta kinda like a sideways peyote ... the effect is similar, but the beads are attached in a different pattern. This was fun to do, because the actuall bead "fabric" is only a small triangle at the top of the earring, with the remainder formed by the long beaded fringe.
Bruce , Cool that you would help out a friend with the chair lift
If I get old and decrepit, Bruce will be the first person I call ... actually, he's a good guy, and I'd call before then, but just for the purpose of hanging out, rather than asking him to do anything.
Wolf said I did some work on this piece at the "Bead and Chat" at a local bead store. Strangely, none of the other ladies commented much. They just got kind of quiet and paid close attention to their own work.
HA !!! That will show those ladys the power of the WOLF !!!
Wolf says to the ladys busily beading their doilys
"
BEAD THIS beeyotch"!!!
Sorry ,,,, it had to be said . :rolleyes:
I have a ceremonial pipe stem that I'm still waiting for the inspiration to strike on. I have to sit with the stem for a while and figure out what it wants to be.
Fill it with some "natural" :joint: ,,, well ,, you catch my drift
Do you have drug tests at work ?? Obvious question i know but,,,,,
Sorry ,,,, it had to be said . :rolleyes:
Originally posted by zippyt
.Bruce , Cool that you would help out a friend with the chair lift . That my friend is functional art , but that is a little ass motor with plastic gears ????? Garage door openers was a good choice to work with , they have all the right stuff for some thing like that , but i would have used both motors and gear boxes . Why didn't you ??? Double redundency and all that .
K.I.S.S. is the best policy, always.
I bought 2 openers because they were only $150 each and I didn't know if 1 would do it until I got into tailoring it to her.
I measured her butt to determine how big to make the seat then the size of the seat determined how close it could be to the wall and still swivel. Even after she could make it up the stairs on her own, she'd use it at the end of the day or to carry the laundry. When it wasn't needed anymore, I removed it and she removed me.
Be fair, you made the first mistake... you measured her butt. Now you know the exact measurement of her butt and no woman would want to stick with someone with that intimate knowledge.
Naw, Tony. It's useless information because that's a constantly changing number. Ask any woman how much her butt changes, not only yearly or monthly but daily.;)
Bruce said When it wasn't needed anymore, I removed it and she removed me.
Ungreatfull Wench !!!!!!
Originally posted by zippyt
Ungreatfull Wench !!!!!!
No Zip, she was and is grateful. I think she was trying to put that part of her life behind her and I was part of that part. It's just one of those unfortunate things people do.;)
You were part of her behind?
Nice. Is that soapstone or wood? (or something else)
Originally posted by zippyt
Ungreatfull Wench !!!!!!
Ungrateful for the winch, the witchy wench!
Originally posted by Happy Monkey
Nice. Is that soapstone or wood? (or something else)
clay
....gray clay. i say its gray clay. i say it today. I say its gray clay today. Oh by the way, it's gray clay today, I say. I wouldn't have it any other way, than gray clay today.
Drew this Catwoman cartoon last year while first teaching myself vector graphics. Done in CorelDraw 7.0 and Photoshop 6.0. I'm not really big into superheroes and villians, so I took a rather irreverent approach. :D
good stuff! what did you use to draw it? (hardware)
Hardwarewise, I use a four-year old Pentium III @ 800 MHz with 128MB of RAM.
Here's a more recent cartoon done in CorelDraw 11.0. I use Adobe Illustrator sometimes as well, but I find it more difficult to use.
At the wide area of the C&O canal below Great Falls.
Especially the <i>Island at Dusk</i>.
You have some true talent.
I thought that photo looked familiar, so i checked my mailbox and found this:
[SIZE=3]TOP 5 MODELS!![/SIZE] :eek: What kind of philandering cad do you think I am?
Originally posted by sycamore
One of my favorite photos...I took this photo of the Sears Tower in Chicago while laying on the sidewalk on South Wacker Drive (February 1998)...
Nice shot. It's my view on weekday mornings. I work in there.
Dar, it's been mentioned as a terrorist target. How do the people that work there feel? Do they talk about it? Joke about it? Has the mood changed with the passage of time since 9/11/01?
People were a lot more anxious right after. It's mellowed out somewhat since then. The reaction varied a lot by person. Some folks were really freaked out in the beginning.
But the city and the building owners have been great about improving security. The city no longer allows flights over the loop area and the owners put in metal detectors, card readers, and barriers on the outside, not to mention the raft of security people. They've got the metal detectors set so high that even small change sets it off.
I'm not worried too much personally, because the place I work is on the 10, 11, and 12th floors. I figure that's too high to be gotten by a car bomb and too low to be immediately affected by a plane. At least that's what I keep telling myself.
When I think about it, like now, I do wonder if I'm acting like the Atreides in Dune. There's a section where the author remarks that they lived with danger so long that they failed to notice a change in its intensity. I hope we don't get to be like that.
But, I don't worry about it often enough to consider changing jobs. Plus it's a great company and I've got a great commute. My house is three blocks from the train station and the Sears tower is just across the river from Union station. It's about a half hour from door to door when I get the express - and I spend most of that playing The Legend of Zelda on my GBA.
LJ said clay
....gray clay. i say its gray clay. i say it today. I say its gray clay today. Oh by the way, it's gray clay today, I say. I wouldn't have it any other way, than gray clay today.
Jinx i think LJ lost his meds again he is going all Sieusical again !!!
Originally posted by zippyt
Jinx i think LJ lost his meds again he is going all Sieusical again !!!
WRONGO! I FOUND THEM!
Just a little something I made this vacation:
NBN - Thanks, I was especially pleased with that one, too.
How long did that take?:confused:
Probably 12 hours or so, while watching a bit of TV.
Originally posted by Happy Monkey
Probably 12 hours or so, while watching a bit of TV.
what do you do with them? are they a coffee table docoration or something of the like?
Essentially. I first posted a picture of them in "Dodads"...
Originally posted by Kitsune
Only decent picture from my recent "stupid night explorations" -- the theme was "security" or "bad security". I thought the rust was kinda cool.
Excellent detail on the lock and nice depth of field. :)
Here are a few B&W shots that I took roughly btwn 1999-2001:
This was taken when Sycamore and I lived in MD. He worked in Bethesda, and I was waiting for him to leave work. There was a couple of pieces of artwork on display outside of a small gallery:
*Nice* sculpture, Rho...what's the media, exactly? Very nice pic as well.
The sculptures appear to be some sort of metal.
some photoshop painting I did while bored one evening... smudge smudge smudge.
And then you went to sleep?!?!:worried:
Some might say I'm a bit of an odd duck. I slept well :>
Originally posted by Elspode
*Nice* sculpture, Rho...what's the media, exactly? Very nice pic as well.
Thanks! Here's another B&W shot. This is Sycamore while we were driving around DC/MD one day:
thank you rho!!!!
i have saved that pic, and will be using it against syc in the very near future! got any more?!
Originally posted by lumberjim
thank you rho!!!!
i have saved that pic, and will be using it against syc in the very near future! got any more?!
I did, but I can't seem to shrink the photos enough to upload.
:(
Originally posted by lumberjim
i have saved that pic, and will be using it against syc in the very near future! got any more?!
*laughs heartily*
Oh Jimbo...you confused soul!
Before you think about trying to run against the Sycamore, keep this in mind: You work in a public place, and I could easily come in there and give you 73 kinds of hell.
That's what I thought. :)
Sycamore has been incarcerated and will be held until we can determine whether or not he presents a threat to lumberjims national security. that is all.
Dear CIA,
Nice work on 9/11.
Regards,
Sycamore
Hey! That was the FBI, man! they didn't tell us!
I have no fear,
now that wolf is here
so i'll just drink my beer
and be of good cheer
i've also decided
to not be a dick
as you'd not be delighted
If I fucked with that pic.
Although I did bluff,
I think the mere threat
should be just enough
To make El Sicomoro sweat
the end
My word you are lyrical this morning ...
Originally posted by wolf
My word you are lyrical this morning ...
:joint:
Just to counteract the coke all you sales-types do, I suppose ...
Don't you ever sleep? I have an excuse for being up right now, but you have a real job, man!
Originally posted by wolf
*ahem*
Just like a Referee - You missed the original foul and flagged the retailiation. :D
I don't know anyone that does coke. Do people still do coke? what happened to coke? you never hear about it. it's all heroin and x and crack nowadays. One thing you can count on not going out of style though ---> :blunt:
it's like blue jeans and tshirts.
Coke is still around, it's just more expensive than crack, and the rush isn't as intense.
More people seem to be shooting it rather than snorting it, though.
Originally posted by Gwennie!
Just like a Referee - You missed the original foul and flagged the retailiation. :D
Ah ... but it's often the retaliation that counts ...
(
If you want to be really, really bored, you can read this.)
And you all think I'm nuts...shit...Wolf, Jimbo and Slang make me look normal by far.
Oh SHIT. You know I really fucking hate it when you're right ...
One more spiky tape ball. This time you can see the process.
1) Fold a piece of tape about 60 degrees.
2) Fold one end over the triangle. If it doesn't line up, peel both folds back and try again.
3) Continue to fold the ends over the triangle until there isn't enough to make another triangle, and cut the extra off.
4) Color the triangle with a permanent marker.
5) Repeat steps 1-4 120 times. ;)
6) Tape 5 triangles in a row, with an extra triangle's worth of tape on each end. Tape the non-colored side.
7) Tape a triangle to the middle one of the 5, with an extra triangle's worth of tape on both the sixth triangle and the other side of the row of five.
8) pull the middle three of the row of five up into a pyramid, fastening with the extra tape flap.
9) Connect 5 pyramids into a star, cutting off flaps or adding new ones as needed.
10) Continue adding pyramids around the edge. It starts to curve back in on itself.
11) Attach the last pyramid by sliding it in, then sticking a paperclip in the joint and pressing the flaps until they stick.
12) Cover the outside with tape. Otherwise it is too fragile.
13) Recolor it with permanent markers, since the last step obscured the color.
I have a short story in the current issue of Cthulhu Sex Magazine, which is the first bit of creative fiction I've had published in some time.
(My mother is so proud..)
http://www.cthulhusex.com/ - "Cursed" be the tale.
(There's no actual link to the story on the site, dang it all, but if you click on my name, the story *is* on my website..)
Great story, Elion. I think I was married to her.:)
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Great story, Elion. I think I was married to her.:)
**d'oh**!!!
Originally posted by Nothing But Net
and win an ear
What?
It was yours!
<img src="http://eva.alexandersguns.com/cellar/salt.JPG">
...and the ear thing was just VVGish, you know!
Tee hee ... gotcha!
(i recognized the bricks immediately, wanted to let some other folks have a chance. But my TRUE triumph here was to catch you with the old "make you repeat yourself when you make some refererence to ears or hearing". This was a geek-amusement from my college days. We were very good at it, and would always reprocess a statement when someone said "what?" before a repeat to make sure we hadn't been caught. One of the best gotchas involved a trip to a drive-thru safari park where someone pointed out a herd of antelope, was "whatted" and repeated. hmm. guess you had to be there, and it is a lot funnier in a verbal exchange).
Your image is VERY cool.
Originally posted by lumberjim
gorgeous!
I have a pine bookcase all cut awaiting time in my schedule to assemble and glue it up. It's a big one though, and I'm afraid that if I put it together in the basement, it will never come out. I built a "treasure chest" for the kids' costume collection this xmas....I'll try to get a good pic of it up here later.
and the bookcase/ it's 7 1/2 ft tall by 45" wide
i'll be painting the sides and trim around the front " queen anne's lace" ( offwhite) today while i watch football.
Man, that's proper. Good work.
Do you just get the lumber at the nearest HD?
thanks!
yup. all of the lumber, the clamps i used for gluing, the dado cutter blade for my table saw, the glue, the levelers for the feet, the chisels, the nails, the butchers wax finish, etc... i'm their best friggin customer. the stain and the lid props on the chest are from Elverson supply, though.
Did you put toybox hinges on the chest?
Looks pretty good. Post another when it's painted.
I wanted to make three of the spiky tape balls, with three different color schemes, so here's the third.
And here are all three together. The color pattern really changes the look.
(Browse and Submit are so close together...)
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Did you put toybox hinges on the chest?
it's got regular brass hinges, but there are 2 supports under the lid to keep it from dropping on little fingers. you have to push the lid down to close it.
Originally posted by Happy Monkey
Looks pretty good. Post another when it's painted.
For some reason I first read that as "be the Underweartoad."
I need sleep.
This was one of those things that could have been posted in multiple threads, so I just created a new thread:
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=75665I do woodworking in my spare time.... mostly designing tables and chairs.
Only once in a while do i have the time to build them.
Heres some of the stuff ive made in the past few years...
(the cabinet when i was 10, the mirror 12, the table 14, im 16 now)
You're clearly some kind of mutant prodigy.
Cool stuff! Are you like Norm Abrams kid or something?
I have managed to narrowly avoid harming myself with power tools on several occasions.
This is why I do textile crafts.
Cool table. I haven't gotten into lots of curves in my furniture, partially due to the lack of a bandsaw, and partially due to what my mom complains is "old fashioned" taste in furniture. But I'm always impressed with smooth curves across joints.
Nice work, Rokko. Keep it up.:thumb:
hmmm, a lightening bolt cabinet at age 10........at least 2 guitars available in the back ground, and a wah pedal.......
i'm gonna take a wild gues and ask if you like the rock-n-roll music?
Cool stuff! Are you like Norm Abrams kid or something?
I was thinking Ted Nugent...who the fuck is norm abrams?
Originally posted by lumberjim
hmmm, a lightening bolt cabinet at age 10........at least 2 guitars available in the back ground, and a wah pedal.......
i'm gonna take a wild gues and ask if you like the rock-n-roll music?
funk, actually. ;)
And a G-K in the rack, sweet.
Awesome variation! (I haven't had a sufficiently slow night at work to try making one of these yet, but I really want to.
To get started, I recommend an icosahedron. It hits the sweet spot between difficulty and looks.
Here's one way to put one together, using only three colors.
those were as i found them in a file in my old computer(titles copied exactly). He figured out how to save them all by himself, but was very pissed off that he didn't know how to get them back once he did. He was closing the program, and saving them with the prompts that came up.
Don't you have a refrigerator Jim?;)
It's been a while but I've finally made another tape sculpture. This one is made of 700 equilateral triangles.
That's pretty cool HM, but you could've built another
bookcase in the time that must have taken. :eek:
Maybe, but you can't watch TV and do woodwork at the same time. I cut myself with the X-acto knife enough - a chisel or drill would have been too much.
HM, maybe I missed this somewhere, but how are you adding color? markers?
They are very amazing things.
Sharpie has come out, in the last few years, with a wonderful variety of permanent marker colors. I did a
step-by-step earlier. :)
<img src="http://www.myrefrigerator.com/images/Perchance%20to%20dream.jpg">
He's grinning because he knows something you don't! Or...he's grinning because he's hungry and you just happen to be close enough to consider edible. Or...he's grinning because he knows there's nothing quite as unsettling as seeing teeth like that smiling at you. Whatever the reason, you'd do well not to trust this guy.
One of your nightmares, Cyber? He wouldn't be smiling if he knew how bad I taste. :p
Nice drawing, what medium?
Nah, Bruce, my nightmares tend to involve critters with 8 legs and a bad habit of dropping down right in front of me unannounced from the ceiling. :worried:
That's all mechanical pencil with #2 lead on bristol board. Took about an hour to do.
I gave handmade Christmas presents this year. This is most of them. (I gave two of the smaller ones before I took the picture.) The small ones fit in the box.
HM, you've got way too much time on your hands. :lol:
I dunno...those tape sculptures look pretty cool to me. 3M must love Happy Monkey. How do you color 'em?
Go back to post 165 in this thread, Doc. ;)
Sharpie loves me too.
:rainfro:
I signed on for an art class this semester (drawing). I'll let you know what new psychoses are revealed. :)
Are you going to redesign the Standard Ink Blots? :D
Are you going to redesign the Standard Ink Blots? :D
Wouldn't that make it a Warchack test then?
Not sure it's really "art" but here's a pic I did in Truespace a while back for a silly club we had at work called "Alcohol Related Stupidity Evening". Hence A.R.S.E. :D
Verry Cool Roosta , got a bigger version ?????
I'll see how big i can get it before it pops the 140k limit...
Nuts! i mean 120k. 640 wide!
Cool !!!!! Thanks Roosta !!!!!!!!!
I just fired it up again. Blimey! i can still remember how to use it!! :biggrin:
Nuts. I should have saved it at higher res...
Toad, sorry to waste your drive space....
good lord! that looks even worse as a GIF. perhaps i should have lost size instead.....
Those look pretty sharp Roosta. Must confess I've never heard of Truespace.
Here's a sight gag cartoon I did last year with CorelDraw 11 and Photoshop 6.0
Nice pic, well drawn. Any more?
Hmmmm. My least favorite cultural export from France. :D
Being an aspiring artist.... I'm on my way there. I've been told i'm decent, but need to keep at it. About the same for anyone else, aye? Well here's my 2 cents worth of art for a character within a novel i'm writing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Dunlavy/scan.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Dunlavy/dunlavyface.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Dunlavy/dunlavyexile.jpgWhat's the dangly thing? I keep thinking ocarina, but maybe I played too much Zelda...
Indeed, it's a form of ocarina, but on one, (can't remember if I added it on the other) there's somewhat of a knob, it would control the size of the holes. Yeah, alot of zelda mate. I just like going back to old instruments. I needed one that could be carved and related to old fantasy fiction. Those are all of a character of mine known as Dunlavy Everbane.
i thought it was a kazoo :)
I thought kazoos had only one hole...
Being an aspiring artist.... I'm on my way there. I've been told i'm decent, but need to keep at it. About the same for anyone else, aye? Well here's my 2 cents worth of art for a character within a novel i'm writing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Dunlavy/scan.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Dunlavy/dunlavyface.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Dunlavy/dunlavyexile.jpg
Neat art! this guy may be copying you... (heheh, just kidding)
The story begins
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-10-30&res=l
quick and dirty search of relevant comics
http://www.penny-arcade.com/search.php?keywords=tube&jointype=1&searchtype=1
What it really reminded me of...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/gabeart/7.28.2004/FrameSet.htmpretty nice. Hey, i'm trying to think of a few muses, anyone have some requests for something I can sketch?
EDIT: oh FINEEE, ill shrink it...
Could ya make that a bit larger? Can't see it. Thanks
Having missed this thread previously I happened upon page #3. I liked all your photos zippyt!
No time to go through much of the other 14.
Your thingy bobbers are cool too Happy Monkey.
Thanks! The holiday season is underway, so I'm gonna be making a few more pretty soon.
GEEEEEEEZZZZ, way to make me feel good about my drawings guys!
well, what's the deal? are they stylistically intended to be that way, or are you just holding your face too close to the paper? they look a bit like ancient roman engravings. all of the eyes appear to be the same. too wide, and very 2D.
witchy poo. did i post this before?
what do you think?
GEEEEEEEZZZZ, way to make me feel good about my drawings guys!
I'm no good at art criticism, but they seem pretty static. It's a bit pot-kettle of me to say it, since I'm no good at drawing action myself, and primarily draw full-on or profile when I draw people. It may be easiest to see one's own flaws in other's work.
I'd say jasoncarocopyea2.jpg is the best, as they aren't full-on face shots, and the people have more natural attitudes. Did you work from a photo? That can help de-rigidify your drawings.
Keep at it. I've been drawing constantly as long as I can remember; it's great.
Ibram, one thing my drawing teacher pointed out to us in drawing one was the difference between drawing from observation and drawing a symbol which represents 'eyes' for example.
If you really look at an eye, you'll see it doesn't look anything like a section of a lentil.
The reason I'm a photographer is that I haven't the patience to draw as well as I'd like. (nor the skill)
If you enjoy drawing then keep drawing. If you are content with your drawings then everything's fine. If you'd like your drawings to look "better"(in your mind) than they do, take a drawing one class. Stop drawing from photos and draw from observation.
My generic advice to anyone who wants to improve whatever skill they are pursuing is "never be satisfied with where you are." That doesn't mean don't appreciate your talents, just don't be satisfied.
Keep going.
the thing i have the hardest time with is that the lack of lines and the negative space have more to do with the appearance of a rendering than the actual lines. I tend to over-draw and over shade. i used to fancy myself an artist until 12th grade when i saw this kid in my class' work. holy shit. he drew a fairy out of one continuous line that came up from a curl of smoke. hardly any pencil on the paper, but there was the fairy, clear as day. elegant, simple, clean. I can't do that.
you have to see it before you can draw it. really see it.
My drawings arent realllly s'posed to look real, any more than any cartoon. Theyre just 2D sketches of faces, and in a couple pictures bodies too. Theyre more about the style than the realism. Theyre about the hair, and the attitude, and the impression.
Here is some art (if you can call it that LOL) that I made in MS paint. My goal was to paint something in a minimalistic, simplistic style to appear as if a child with a pure soul were expressing themselves on the computer. (pure bs right there... I was actually was just messing around on paint) :D
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Here is some art (if you can call it that LOL) that I made in MS paint. My goal was to paint something in a minimalistic, simplistic style to appear as if a child with a pure soul were expressing themselves on the computer. (pure bs right there... I was actually was just messing around on paint) :D
I like it. The floating lightbulb lends a surrealistic air.
What light bulb? Say balloon.
What light bulb? Say balloon.
LOL yeah it was intended to be a hot air balloon, but most art is subjective, in the eye of the beholder, if you will. So it can definatly be a lightbulb too if you prefer! :)
Here is another beautiful creation. This one is meant as a warning against obesity, because you become what you eat (Banana man), and the consumerism lifestyle most live now will eventually come back and bite you and eat up your soul as you try and save your lifestyle (monkey) LOL i'm so full of shit!
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Just got a Wacom tablet yesterday...
I got one of those thinking it would make drawing/writing easy. It didn't. Hope you have better luck with it. I like it but I can't handwrite or sketch on it but that may be because I got a small one and there's an amplification effect. What size did you get?
like, the smallest that there is.
I'll upgrade when I don't owe 600 bucks on an incoming guitar...
I'm impressed. I recognized five of the seven, but MJ doesn't count.
do you think it unimportant to mention that most of these are tracings?
not traced, just copied by sight. Well, okay, I traced the text on Thriller, and the beagle, can opener, telecaster, and Lei Feng, but most of those, the people, i google image searched then used that for reference, not for tracing, except on a couple of the eyes (which you yourself said i suck at)
the frog? bob geldoff, dylan? all of the ones in post #280.....?
still worth mention, i think.
An odd little non-tapecraft thing I made out of paperclips and the rings from seltzer bottle caps.
Was it you that mention things were a little slow at work? :haha:
That's very cool, it must have taken awhile to put together. What came first, the ants looking for something to do, or the ball looking for inhabitants?
I see London, I see France, I see Escher's Underpants!
That is very, very cool.
Thanks!
The bugs came first. I didn't make this one at work, though I did make a few bugs there...
An odd little non-tapecraft thing I made out of paperclips and the rings from seltzer bottle caps.
I love it... and your tape work too... do you exhibt them???
I love it... and your tape work too... do you exhibt them???
Only here and on Flickr...
Very well done! quite artsy in a recycling kind of way.
So clever, Monkey. You really should put these in shows. They are really sweet.
Seriously... I like your work much more than soo much stuff I've seen in galleries and museums... and I lived in NYC so I'm not just talking about little small town shows here... I likey
I just saw this. I love this one. The ants make it.
No, HM made it. You've got to actually read the posts glatt.
This was my first and only attempt at oil painting.
Very nice... had you/have you done other paintings? What was it about the oil painting that made you want to not do it again?
This was my first and only attempt at oil painting.
You fucked up, that ain't oil that's water. :lol2:
This here's an oil painting:
Very nice... had you/have you done other paintings? What was it about the oil painting that made you want to not do it again?
It was just something on my bucket list. I have a friend who's an artist, and she had the tools and equipment needed. I have none of the stuff to do it again, nor the place to do it. My friend also guided me with colors and techniques. My color perception isn't very good.
Nice, spud! Feels very peaceful. :)
Thank you for the complement. I enjoyed doing it, but now onto my next item on my bucket list, the Swedish Bikini Team.
Oh, I thought you said Bucket...:blush:
How are they all going to fit into the bucket?
It'll be a tight squeeze. Heh Heh!
So I'm thinking about making some t-shirts for my parents and siblings for Christmas. My first try for an image. It's mostly a tracing, but comes from several different source images. I'm thinking of doing the various camping setups our family had growing up, from a VW Bug and a canvas tent to an actual VW Westfalia camper. Sort of a progression over the years. I'll need to do 4 more images if I go that route.
I wonder if a black line drawing would look better on a shirt, or one colored in?
maybe a little of both? -that's a great idea by the way :D
maybe a little of both? -that's a great idea by the way :D
yeah.
like a pastel blue amorphous shape behind the van, and some light color along edges of colored panels?
like this but with a more watercolor effect at the edges
meh, what do I know?
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That's kinda cool. It does color well. I'm going to try coloring it and decide later after I compare the two versions.
Or maybe coloring the lines instead of coloring it in.
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[COLOR="White"]...[/COLOR]
Pile up!
This is what i was seeing:
Those hubcaps look really good. How did you do the watercolor thing?
i duplicated the layer, splashed some color around edges, set the eraser to 2% opacity, and then i dicked around with the hue.
which is long for: I have skillz, yo.
Image number two. Actually, this would be image number one, chronologically, and the first image I did would be image number two when you put them in chronological subject order.
I have no idea what color the bug was. Can't remember it that clearly. I'm guessing it was blue. The tent was beige/orange.
I think you should make a 3d puzzle of the camper van image. Gotta fit all of the glatts into the van...
I think you should make a 3d puzzle of the camper van image. Gotta fit all of the glatts into the van...
If you liked tetris .... you're gonna love Glattris!
Image number two. Actually, this would be image number one, chronologically, and the first image I did would be image number two when you put them in chronological subject order.
I have no idea what color the bug was. Can't remember it that clearly. I'm guessing it was blue. The tent was beige/orange.
You want I should give that a similar treatment?
Yes, if you want to. It would be cool to see. I'm going to do my own coloring, but I like the ideas. I think I'm going to try to recreate the watercolor effect.
that's ok....if you're going to do it on your own i won't bother.
if you need tips on getting that effect going, lemme know and I'll help.
I think I'm going to try to recreate the watercolor effect.
Just print on wet shirts. :haha:
Here's another one. I tried coloring this one. But I'm not married to the colors. They're in a separate layer and can be easily changed. I'm going to have four of these kinds of images on the back of the t-shirt, and one bigger one on the front. I figure the design shouldn't be more than 11 inches wide in order to fit well on the back of the shirt. 10 inches would be better. So I scaled this one down to the size it will be on the shirt. Fairly small.
The gray background is just a layer that shows off the white well. I'm hoping when I get the shirts printed, I can do that area as a transparency, and it will end up being the shirt color. I'll need to read up on the files they need.
IF YOU USE PAINT DOT NET IT WILL SAVE AS A *.PNG FILE. THAT SUPPORTS TRANSPARENT, JUST ERASE THE AREA YOU WANT TRANSPARENT. HUGE FILES THOUGH.
oCAPSLOCK DAY
My attempt at a watercolor effect using the eraser and blending colors with the airbrush.
Much nicer than a photograph. :thumbsup:
afterthought... are your siblings memories of these road trips, as pleasant as yours?
afterthought... are your siblings memories of these road trips, as pleasant as yours?
That's a very good question. I think so, but I'll need to probe a little before giving them all shirts memorializing the trips. The VW bug picture, for example, is a memory that is very sketchy for me. My younger siblings won't remember that one at all, but my parents will.
Cool, I didn't mean to be a wet blanket, but I'd hate to see you doing all this work, only to have it backfire on you. I speak from experience. :blush:
messing around today because I'm sick and can't concentrate. Here's something I made as an avatar:
And just for kicks, this is just the color layer with no "coloring book" lines showing.
I think I like it better with no lines. Good job, Glatt.
I haven't been keeping my progress updated in this thread, but the T-shirts I made for my family finally came in from zazzle. I took advantage of the free ground shipping and it took what seemed like forever. I haven't seen them in person yet, but Mrs. glatt just sent me these pictures of how they came out. I'm pleased. I'll be mailing them out tonight.
far out man!
groovy!
no really. I think that's really cool.
glatt - for some reason those pics remind me of my Malibu Barbie and her Suntan friends (with their glasses and their towels!) the fun never ends with Barbie's Suntan friends!!
We had Barbie campers and all that stuff....it ALSO reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode where the Bradys all go camping and run into some hilarious adventures!!
Those are so cool, Glatt. I want one, now.
They're on zazzle! Can you make stuff private on zazzle?
Very nice and very sentimental for the family. Excellent job all the way around
Thanks everyone! I just saw them in person, and they look even better than the photos.
Yes, they are on zazzle. I don't know if you can make stuff private there since it's my first time using the service, but I bet if you made an account and didn't tell anyone about it, it would be pretty much private. Nobody would know to look for it.
ya know, there's an awful lot of t-shirts with camper vans on them on zazzle! Who knew?
Those are VERRRRRRY Cool Glatt !!!
i have sold 6 potato wave shirts on zazzle. i've earned $21 in commissions for that and other(cellar) things. i'll send that in to the tip jar.
ya know, there's an awful lot of t-shirts with camper vans on them on zazzle! Who knew?
I just signed back into my zazzle account and see I had made these shirts "private" back when I put the order in two weeks ago.
Yours is by far nicer than any of the others..... perhaps you should flog it to the masses.... :D
That might be dangerous, there's a lot of serial killers and suicide bombers in that VW crowd, you know. :lol:
That might be dangerous, there's a lot of serial killers and suicide bombers in that VW crowd, you know. :lol:
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy...:eyebrow:
I dunno, I reckon Shawnee has strong crazy serial-killer potential. And that is not even counting hobos.
I got some Buckyballs from woot.com.
Buckyballs by
Happy Monkey, on Flickr
Buckyballs by
Happy Monkey, on Flickr
I've thought about getting some of those. Looks like fun!
I gave them out as Christmas gifts last year. One girl complained, she'd dropped one of the balls on the carpet and couldn't find it. Never occurred to her to run a piece of metal over the carpet.:rolleyes:
I dropped one into the recesses of my La-Z-Boy. Recovery was difficult.
Turn this inside out:
to get this:
I used to do doodles while watching TV*, way back when I was a student. Here are a few.
* actually watching TV with one eye and one ear, listening to the radio with the other ear, the left hand on the [COLOR="Red"]REC[/COLOR] button,
doodling with the remaining hand and eye. - I wish I could multitask like that today.
An old favorite shape:
Those are cool. I've never played with those. Do the little balls roll around a lot when you are trying to make a shape, or are they pretty rigid, staying in place once you put them somewhere?
They only move where and when you don't want them to.:D
Pretty much. They stay where they are unless you get them near the wrong side of another shape.
woot.com has Buckyballs in two other colors today.
I was thinking of buying them for my kids. But then I saw the very strongly worded warnings.
According to the
recall notice, 14 is the reccommended age.
Look what kerosene drew for me on commission! I haven't seen it in person yet, but I'm excited to. It's going to be a Christmas present for my wife. In case it's not obvious, those are my kids. I took a million pictures on Thanksgiving, and chose my favorite three, all in different lighting, and kerosene told me which one would work best from her point of view and she drew it.
Cool huh? She's got an art page over on
Facebook.
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That is AMAZING.
omg I really should commission her to draw my nieces. She's SO good!
Yeah. She's extremely talented. I'm so happy with the way this came out!
I've got an art supply store a few blocks from my work, so I just need to go pick up a mat and picture frame. I'll wait until it gets here so I can measure it.
Your wife is gonna cry! :)
This is three years late, but... how'd your family like the camping shirts, glatt?
My mom absolutely loved the shirt. And I even got a poster printed for her because she wanted to frame the t-shirt. My siblings said they thought the shirts were cool, but I've only seen my brother wearing it. Maybe I got the wrong sizes, or may they just weren't that into them. I wear mine, but am a little disappointed with how quickly the colors faded. So I got a poster printed for myself too. It's hanging in the bathroom.
I'm pleased with how the whole project worked out, but it's my mom who was most excited by it all. I can always count on my mom. :)
Tell Kero I said she haz mad skilz.
Holy cow, that looks really good. Way to go, Kerosene! And way to go glatt!
Very nice. I can't draw things that exist.
I have a beautiful and original piece of artwork that reminds me every day of Case's talent. And the kindness of more than one Dwellar.
Should I win the lottery it would still have pride of place in my collection.
Very nice. I can't draw things that exist.
Well... You can't draw things that don't exist either, can you? I mean, once you draw them they exist, so it sounds like tape may be your niche.
If they exist, then you can compare my drawing to them, and see that it's no good.
If it's imaginary, then who's to say I didn't capture it perfectly?
Glatt told me he posted the drawing so I just had to log in and say thank you so much! I am finally getting to where I am comfortable with my drawings again. :)
You should be very comfortable with them. They are fantastic. Thank you so much for doing this drawing. It will be the perfect present. :)
Glatt told me he posted the drawing so I just had to log in and say thank you so much! I am finally getting to where I am comfortable with my drawings again. :)
We miss you!
Glatt told me he posted the drawing so I just had to log in and say thank you so much! I am finally getting to where I am comfortable with my drawings again. :)
Miss, seconded.
Can you draw some shit men?
Shit, even I could draw that.
Just call my Chris Ofili.
What, exactly, is a shit man? ;)
http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=26270&highlight=shitmen
You'll like especially starting with post 17, glatt. We were comedic GOLD I tell you. ;)
Good times, shaw. Good times. :)
:)
It was sooooooooooo funny. You started me off, then we just went from there.
Wow, thanks for the resurrection. I can't believe I came up with the line "intellectual sweater kittens" I'm not even sure what that means.
Cool! So what is it? A UFO landing pad? Or is getting the viewer to ask questions the whole point?
I had in mind a fantasy-world religious labyrinth of some sort, but I usually don't have a plan when I draw.
I'm actually least happy with the focal point (poor precision and perspective), and most happy with the background.
Very cool...kind of a Minas Tirith type setup.
A couple more on the Minas Tirith theme...
And a couple with a sci-fi theme...
That last one, wow. That is super neat. I will have to show you some of my line drawings. Mine are predominantly abstract, but I love the 'bunches of little lines and details' thing. It's very absorbing to produce something packed full of little tiny lines very close together.
That last one, wow. That is super neat. I will have to show you some of my line drawings. Mine are predominantly abstract, but I love the 'bunches of little lines and details' thing. It's very absorbing to produce something packed full of little tiny lines very close together.
It is! i do it while listening to the lamentations/grotesque-sugar-sweet cliches at meetings!!!
I can get a lot done in an hour of sheer fucking boredom.
I have to be doing something with my hands pretty much all the time; the three tall skinny ones are on the backs of bookmarks from study groups at work, drawn over the course of one-hour weekly meetings learning Java. I started at the bottom and worked my way up.
I was totally missing the scale. That is cool stuff.
Oh - I may have been misleading with "bookmarks". They are each half of a regular sheet of paper. About 4x11.
I find mine is a sort of hypergraphia.
I don't write, though, so I guess it's hyperdoolelia.
That just sounds like you go poo a lot.
That just sounds like you go poo a lot.
well, I can't deny that.
As a child, I would draw prohibitively elaborate mazes.
Whatever this is in the DSM, my daughter has it.
Well it ain't Aspergers, because that doesn't exist anymore. :) I'm gonna go with Labrynthine Hypergraphia. [COLOR="White"](No it's not real.)[/COLOR]
I also did that as a youngster
Spencer went through a maze phase....and I remember getting a pad of graph paper from grampy for making them myself, too.
Christmas ornaments from last year.
Inspired by the
Norwegian Embassy.
I got yer Christmas cheer.
