oil painting

[shooter]

I have been Blest with some amazing hobbies, Rock-climbing, beating up jeeps, High-pointer, multi-day back-packing, teaching…; alas, painting and electronics are the last 2.

My son Matt n me developed a “google translator” for major chords and primary colors, my genre is primitive, abstract.  Akin to Avanguard music style According to the translator

I started painting because I didn’t think it was right that only well-off folk could afford “good art”, Blue-collar box throwers appreciate good art, and will not hesitate to let you know; “dude, that isn’t working”.

The piece I’m doing now,15" X30" oil on canvas, best viewed at eye level, 6' away, halogen, indirect light. (my stage set-up ) stems from spending some quality desert time in ’13.  Ya, ya, I’m a slow starter

This piece is 90% there after about 2 hrs canvas time.  Now I have 90% more work ahead!  The green works just fine for me, but my box thrower buddy will find that a bit of a stretch.  So I’ll be using a technique of layering translucent paint, maybe as may as 12 layers, possibly 3 different colors, for a more “desert” look.  When I asked my Instructor “how many layers is normal?”  classic PRR response “As many as it takes”, I paid $300 for that wisdom

Since Doug started it, I’ve added my other genre;

[PRR]

> more “desert” look. 

Here on the coast, that would be sold as a "seascape".

I guess it is fine to fill multiple markets.

[shooter]

"seascape".

The benefit of abstract art
Here in the corn, if it don't look like a tractor or a kitten, it probably won't sell, hell, you can't even give it away!

[SILVERGUN]

I really like the 'contemplation' piece...it draws me in.
You did a great job of bringing life to that image.
Nice work Sir.
 
 

[shooter]

Thanks SG,
 I had just got picked up by a local Gallery(early2000's), loading the car with some works and my wife says "you can't take that", I'm like, honey, She's asking what I was listing it for, I told her, and she paid!!

[SILVERGUN]

-Is it her? (in the picture)
 
-Did she take the money out of your wallet?
 

[shooter]

No, but while I painted, I often thought that's probably how she "thought" after marrying me
and NO, we are both 2nd round so money wasn't gonna be "an issue" tween us.

This is the 2nd of the 3 painting series, Her Son, my stepson wound up with it.

[shooter]

A painters version of Noodlin;
The sum of in/out from my 6SN7 driver

[Ritchie200]

Shooter those are really nice works!!  Well done young man!


Jim

[shooter]

young man!

That my friend is a relative term

[jjasilli]

 

[shooter]

Thx JJ, I got it finished, but cannot get a pic that doesn't lose major features!  tried 3 cameras!
below the horizon is just "blah" in the image, the red/orange horizon is all but washed out!

finished up a 2nd one also, but like amps, they are really never done as long as you have them!

[kagliostro]

WOW Shooter

you are really an artist

Ilike all your painting jobs

but this is REALLY VERY COOL 



Franco

[shooter]

 thanks Franco, Painting, like music, Is an ever evolving process.  Some days I get mud, some days I get lucky, but when inspiration strikes, call in sick

[kagliostro]

BTW the SimSumShine remember me Andy Warhol


Franco


p.s.: My mother, when she was alive, loved a lot to paint

[shooter]

My mother, when she was alive, loved a lot to paint

My artistic ability came from my Mom, she got me supplies, encouragement, but we were very poor, so my Dad kept pushing me to math/science, in the end, they both "Got it right"

SimSumShine

I was working on an amp, I used my scopes feature to take 2 sine wave, and add them into a 3rd sinewave, then my brain went sideways and an hour with paint program, walla!

[BetterOffShred]

It's super cool stuff shooter.  Your projects are all fun and interesting.  Thanks for sharing the painting, I actually really like the sky meets earth one there.  Has a cool just before a storm vibe to it !
-Brett

[timbertoes]

Enjoyed this post and seeing your talent ! 

[shooter]

Has a cool just before a storm vibe to it !

Thanks Brett.  It's an "image" in my mind from a trip to NM in '13, I just went in the desert with tent for 3 days.  I just "tweaked" it some more a couple days ago, I can't get a pic that looks anything close

talent

that my friend is subjective

[PlanetHoff]

Those look really cool, I could imagine seeing them in a cafe or something similar.

[shooter]

I could imagine seeing them

thanks.  You make the sale you get half

[shooter]

winter inspires boredom, boredom leads to a creative mind
this piece just fell into place, maybe 20minutes easel time so far.

I'm not a realist, modern cameras got that niche  covered!
 

[Ritchie200]

When I asked my Instructor “how many layers is normal?”  classic PRR response “As many as it takes”, I paid $300 for that wisdom

I reread the thread and saw this.  I had a hearty laugh.  When I ask my Wing Chun instructor if I defended an attack properly he says, "Did you get hit?"  When I ask what counter attack would be best he says, "Yes"  And on top of this wisdom, I'm PAYING this guy to beat me up every week....

Man you have some great talent there.  Very nice work!

Jim

[shooter]

I'm PAYING this guy to beat me up every week....

Then you have great instructor
I taught RockClimbing, when I got a new kid, I'd put them on the wall, within 5 minutes I knew if they were serious, if so, I handed them a 25lb pack, told them to wear it for 2hrs while walking on their tip toes   and the good ones came back for more!!

[shooter]

there were 2 canvas' for 10$, this "journey" happened 1st.  Originally 10min easel time as a gray-scale, color took longer!

[shooter]

Been at this since ’04, the ones that challenge, they typically show up in 3’s
Painting the illusion of glass is a  pain!!  Might be til spring tweaking the edges.
Some of my “working thoughts” ;

A/D
Recycled Souls
Boomer to Millennialza
Fracking wisdom

EDIT:, added images after tweaking for couple hours

[PRR]

https://www.artistsnetwork.tv/courses/paul-jacksons-watercolor-workshop-the-illusion-of-glass

I realize he is watercolor not oils; also I do not feel illusioned looking at that video snip; but there may be tips to use (worth $17? I dunno).

[shooter]

Thx PRR
these last 3 are acrylic, and I think that's part of the problem, they dry to FAST!
I got all winter, probably overlay oils on this one, might be a keeper, or a fire starter

[shooter]

Franco, here's my latest;

I'm taking a 1/3 of the winter off, heading for warmer climates
so I've been working in acrylics mostly since traveling with oils (dry times) gets problematic

I was "feeling" sorta Pollock-y, this "type" is what I call "Dave original", You know it when ppl say; "I like it", but they don't know why

[kagliostro]

Many Thanks Shooter

I like to watch to your works, some I don't understand 100%, but you really are an artist

 


Franco

[shooter]

some I don't understand

I don't believe anyone can understand what is in the head/heart/soul of an artist, whatever the genre' or medium.  There are songs that just make my foot tap, even without hearing "the meaning" the words.
Abstract art is like that, I smile n shake my head when folk ask "what is it?, what does it mean?...."  It's simply, do you like it?

you really are an artist

I'm just one of many, look at Steve's Visio work, PRR's witticism, and, and
I believe this place inspires, n motivates that other 1/2 brain

here's one of my early pencil work, enjoy my friend

[kagliostro]

  .... It's simply, do you like it?

Oh, I don't pretend to understand things, but I like very much something that give me an emotion, doesn't metter what it is or what it mean

simply I enjoy when I enter into resonance with something 

Some of your abstract paint give me that also if I don't know why and what they are or mean for you, only I've a good feedback watching

Thanks again for sharing

I'm just one of many

Despite that, you are one of those 

Franco

[shooter]

simply I enjoy when I enter into resonance with something 

Nicely put!

Here's my largest format work, so far   30' X 20'
took 3 days basically non-stop, I'm pretty sure I was outta my mind during that time

[kagliostro]

Ciao Shooter

I can see 4 oil paints (a big red one is on the right of the picture) and a big portion of the floor that seems to be painted (??)

Excuse me ,,,, to what you refer 

(my brain is undernourished at this time, all the energy is conveyed to the digestion department)

Franco

[shooter]

the floor

It's my fresco, (no angelic), meets Kandinsky

[mresistor]

Very cool floor - what is the floor surface made of?

[shooter]

It's just luan? 1/4" plywood over the 3/4"T&G sub, was prepped for a laminate floor, but I was on the down-sized outsourced chopping block soooooo, paint, mostly oil based exterior, and latex interior.  spent real money and bought Industrial clear coat used for basketball courts.  I've been offered good money to "do it again", but declined, I can't imagine EVER, reproducing anything close.  I've even been offered good money to sell this floor, I just said buy the house, get the floor free

[kagliostro]

Oh, OK, the floor

but now, when you have time to do it, you must take and post some other more "readable" fictures of that floor 

Which will be the next .......... doors ?? 

Franco

[shooter]

more "readable" fictures

when I work out the kinks in my home defense drone, I'll try n photo the floor

[sluckey]

Hey, you missed a couple panels! 

[shooter]

we call that negative space in art, If you don't balance the positive space everything shorts out

[Ed_Chambley]

Wow and arteist!! I would show my artwork, but now I am ashamed to do so.  Great work Skippy!!!

[PRR]

> a big portion of the floor that seems to be painted (??)

In a totally different style....

A previous tenant painted the landing at the bottom of the cellar stairs.

(Looks like it is time for some touch-up.)

BTW-- I strongly endorse the alternating colors on steep dark stairs. Makes it much easier to see.  (On the other cellar stairs I left the treads luan-light but masked and stained an inch at the edge very dark.)

[shooter]

I am ashamed to do so.

a REAL artist can't be shamed   post your work, I'm lonely 

In a totally different style....

I seriously considered a black n white checked, but I had soooo many 1/4 full cans of paint that the landfill wouldn't take with paint in sooooo...

[Ed_Chambley]

I am ashamed to do so.

a REAL artist can't be shamed   post your work, I'm lonely 

In a totally different style....

I seriously considered a black n white checked, but I had soooo many 1/4 full cans of paint that the landfill wouldn't take with paint in sooooo...

I am not really, I was just going on. I am a commercial artist.  If you have Fresh Express in the produce department of your local super market, the pre made salad folks, just look at their logo and packaging.

[shooter]

I am a commercial artist.

  You're doing better than me, you get PAID!

[Ed_Chambley]

I am a commercial artist.

  You're doing better than me, you get PAID!

Well I guess we all have to have shelter and food.  I started doing artwork for print shops when I was a kid. No computer so drawing was important.
I have done a few nationally noticed and 2 international companies. This is what I do in real life and is the reason I do not have 75 amps and 100 more radios.


I do like your work as I prefer illusion and abstract.

[shooter]

I prefer illusion and abstract.

I didn't start painting till I was 40somthing, wife & I went museums prior to my painting hobby and I was always drawn to Abstract and surreal, Digital cameras were just hitting so I figured if it was real, I couldn't compete. Since I'm not a follow the rules guys, it works well

 

[Ritchie200]

  I've even been offered good money to sell this floor, I just said buy the house, get the floor free

Enzo Ferrari once said, "I don't sell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has to hold the engines in."

Amazing work Shooter!

Jim

[Ed_Chambley]

I prefer illusion and abstract.

I didn't start painting till I was 40somthing, wife & I went museums prior to my painting hobby and I was always drawn to Abstract and surreal, Digital cameras were just hitting so I figured if it was real, I couldn't compete. Since I'm not a follow the rules guys, it works well

Ok, I have done some painting. This is a place we played as kids. It is on the wall behind the sofa. I also do silk screen art and some pottery. The painting took forever as it is sort of large.