Art & Inspiration -----Last Friday Art Show of '11 12/30/11----

Mr.Moose · Dec 30, 2011

I made a little stop-motion video of a commissioned Christmas gift.

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The song is from an artist named SoCalled.

himjively · Dec 30, 2011

cut out glue and fold
happy new year

Offset · Dec 30, 2011

Thank you folks for a years worth of entertainment and awe. You folks have some serious talent.

Happy New Year to all.

kenmo · Dec 30, 2011

Some older photos.... These are from Atlantic Nationals in 2006, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada....

2009 Atlantic Nationals

Happy New Year everyone.....

kenmo · Dec 30, 2011

57 Corvette ~ Bob said: ↑

Happy New Year to all ........

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Great looking image... Is that's your Vette? Looks awesome....

Jeff Norwell · Dec 30, 2011

Out with the Old and in with the New...
Happy New year all!!!
Just a very oldie....

Tommy's Cycle · Dec 30, 2011

David; That Norton piece is excellant, one of my favorites of yours. Dmitry did a "power" carving, for a show, over Christmas. Not impeccable but still cool. Happy New Year Everyone! Stay safe and sober......if you can

4tl8ford · Dec 30, 2011

Thanks to all for the most excellent art show for 2011 - Even the things that I don't like were on the highside of fantastic.
I wish everyone a Great New Year.

Butcher's Shop Customs · Dec 30, 2011

G V Gordon · Dec 30, 2011

Couple quickies I did for a friend Christmas eve morning. He welded up a surf board and sheriffs star coat hanger for his sons rooms and I decorated'em for him.

krome · Dec 30, 2011

Nelson's Landing by Sunday Slacker Magazine, on Flickr

Photo from the photo shoot from Issue three of Sunday Slacker

Joshua Shaw · Dec 30, 2011

I haven't got to post much art in 2011... Not for lack of doing any, just been a CRAZY busy year. New Shop, New home, New job = not a lot of Internet play time. So, here ya go. Some of these may have been posted before, if so- Sorry.
I always like to check in on Fridays for a quick glance and some insperation. You guys KILL IT every week! My hats off to you all.

Thanks for the goods in 2011, and here's to a CALMER 2012.

Joshua Shaw

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krome · Dec 30, 2011

Slacker_Greenspans by Sunday Slacker Magazine, on Flickr

Slim Pickens · Dec 30, 2011

Happy New Year HAMB. Thanks for the continued inspiration, friendship and encouragement. See you down the road. Here are a few of my shots from this year.
Slim

Dan Greenberg · Dec 30, 2011

Happy New Year everyone. Great start to end a very strange year.

Here are various oldies, some of which I may have posted before.

Dan Greenberg · Dec 30, 2011

jdustu said: ↑

Let's make it memorable!

I've had a "Jalopy Rods" shirt for a few years that was drawn by Thom Taylor.

That was the inspiration for this piece, "Bad Jalopy":

"Bad Jalopy" Hot Rod Sculpture by Brown Dog Welding, on Flickr

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These just keep getting better and better! Love this one!

jdustu · Dec 30, 2011

lockwoodkustoms said: ↑

Jdustu, very nice work as usual. Happy New Year
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Thanks man! Just trying to keep up

Mr. Jones, I think I commented on it before, but "damned crazy driver" is the shit!

Mr. Lozeau, you da man.

Dan Greenberg said: ↑

These just keep getting better and better! Love this one!
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Thanks Dan! Always dig your pics.

Dan Greenberg · Dec 30, 2011

BOMONSTER said: ↑

This year I've been hitting a few shows with my pop up store selling my BOMONSTER art. Seems like every show I attend a few of the same guys hang out, buy my stuff and tell me they're starting a car club and want me to design a shirt logo. Every show it seems they add a few more "members" who also buy my stuff. It must be part of their new member initiation because they always end up dropping a couple hundred bucks at my booth and telling me they want me to design a shirt for them. So at the end of the year, I figured they've already paid me enough to get a logo in return so I dropped this idea on them (all they told me was they like early 60's Chevy trucks):

They flipped out and told me to go nuts. And while I was at it, I thought I might share my process with this FAS. I usually start with a drawing to establish proportions and composition. I don't get too detailed - just the basic outline and maybe some light direction. What you don't see here is the truck reference photos from my online scrap pile - many of which I grabbed off the H.A.M.B. Then I transfer the drawing to a clean piece of scratchboard by rubbing the back with pencil and then redraw over the lines transferring the design onto the scratchboard. The size of this piece is 16 x 12.

I work on a flat table top taping the scratchboard to a drawing board. I work with a desklamp close to the work to see the faint graphite lines. I use an Xacto knife with a #16 blade. I wrap tape near the end of the knife to cushion my finger tips from the constant pressure of scraping the surface. Whenever I start a drawing I usually attack what I think might be the trickiest to pull off. That way if I mess up, I can start over without losing too much work. In this case I must have thought the eyes, arms and bent truck would be the trickiest.

Once I had the trucks looking good it was time to knock out the type. I really like the look of hand drawn type but also appreciate type design so the font needs to be accurate under the loose lines. I also like to leave some black showing so it's not 100% white so I felt thousands of parallel scrap marks were the way to go. Since I sometimes get lost in tiny lines. I jump ahead and scrap some lines to establish a line angle on each letter. That way if I'm veering a little off course I can readjust as I get closer to the pre-scratched marks. By taping the scratchboard onto a drawing board, I can also spin the work to fit the angle of my hand. I'm best at clockwise scraps from the 8 o'clock to the 1:00 range. Counter clockwise scraps from about 12 to 7. I constantly spin my board where my wrist works best.

After defining the letter forms with a thousand scraps I add some detail to the letter edges and generally touch up the trucks until I start to think I might have ruined the whole piece. Once signed, I scan into photoshop and fix any funny edges. Then I make an eps file and open in illustrator. I rasterize and do a live trace adjusting the setting a couple of times until it's closest to the actual scratch. Once saved it is a clean vector file which can be screen printed, reduced to a business card or blown up for truck graphics. The Wreckers loved it and that always make the effort worthwhile. Maybe now they'll stop asking for a shirt design.
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Thanks for this great write up on how your great pieces of art come to be. Although I don't comment on all of them, I think each and every one is truly remarkable. I hope I will meet you in person sometime at a show next year.

mx6262 · Dec 30, 2011

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I love this one!!!!!

Dan Greenberg · Dec 30, 2011

Bob - fabulous 2012 Corvette and awesome looking chick!
fortypickup - the gremlins get to ride around in a very cool truck!
Todd J - Amazing array of all your stuff from this last year.
Clysdale - that first piece is so over the top cool!
GaryC - very creative, refined and elegant!
Jigger - love the way that sedan sits! Can't wait to see the final on it.
kenmo - great shots as always!
Jeff Norwell - your work never disappoints, no matter how old.
Butcher's Shop Customs - excellent aging technique on those junk yard photos.
krome - you definitely have talent! Great, pro images week after week.
Richard (Slimpickens) - great recap - hope we rund into each other again in '12

Pharouh · Dec 30, 2011

Another year,wow! Great show so far!
I finally have something that is halfway deserving to put on here. I did this in PSP7. hope you like it.

Dan Greenberg · Dec 30, 2011

himjively said: ↑

cut out glue and fold
happy new year
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This is seriously cool!! - too bad I don't have a color printer that prints on light cardboard - brilliantl idea!

Tommy's Cycle · Dec 30, 2011

Wanted to include this, a photo sent to me by a happy customer. He wanted a display stand for a knob he purchased awhile back. A "Spark Plug" stand seemed to fit the bill. Thanks

Cush · Dec 30, 2011

This "Asphalt Fiends" coloring book page is a tribute to my uncle and his "Bug-eyed Sprite." - hope to see all you great artists at Torquefest! - CUSH

Tommy's Cycle · Dec 30, 2011

OMG. I remember I had this mag when I was a young teen. My Mom caught me with it I probably would still have it, if I'd had it laminated back then

robschwager · Dec 30, 2011

Thanks for another year of making my eyeballs happy, everybody!

Happy new year!

ToddJ · Dec 30, 2011

Norwell......That hopped up baby buggy never gets old! I love it, man!

Tommy's Cycle....man, your work is the shit! I love what you do, so keep on doing it!

Jigger- The chick rocks- and no, she ain't too big, man!

BOMONSTER- The Wreckers logo is very cool!

Fiorano · Dec 30, 2011

great show -great year, the art here is my fave-

problemchild · Dec 30, 2011

Hi all hope we all had a great xmas, here is my latest sculpt FINKENSTEIN created from Shawn Dickinson concept art with his permission.Happy new year to all DAVE
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Chuck Carman · Dec 30, 2011

Here's some oldies.

Art & Inspiration -----Last Friday Art Show of '11 12/30/11----

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