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

[krome]

Nelson's Landing by Sunday Slacker Magazine, on Flickr

Photo from the photo shoot from Issue three of Sunday Slacker

[Joshua Shaw]

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]

Slacker_Greenspans by Sunday Slacker Magazine, on Flickr

[Slim Pickens]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by jdustu

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

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

[jdustu]

Originally Posted by lockwoodkustoms

Jdustu, very nice work as usual. Happy New Year

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.

Originally Posted by Dan Greenberg

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

Thanks Dan! Always dig your pics.

[Dan Greenberg]

Originally Posted by BOMONSTER

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.

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]

Originally Posted by 63ChevyII

I love this one!!!!!

[Dan Greenberg]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by himjively

cut out glue and fold
happy new year

This is seriously cool!! - too bad I don't have a color printer that prints on light cardboard - brilliantl idea!

[Tommy's Cycle]

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]

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]

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]

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

Happy new year!

[ToddJ]

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]

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

[problemchild]

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]

Here's some oldies.