Another Friday, another Friday art show... A couple of weekends ago, when Joyo and I were staying at Doc's house, I got the chance to check out one of the more impressive hot rod art collections in existence. The one piece that really stood out to m... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Thanks for the support, fellas. Hot rods and art are two passions of mine and I'm just glad I can share them with the HAMB community. Cheers.
I bought a great little painting from Ruben a couple of years ago. It's hanging in a special place... and what a bargain! Ruben, your work seems to be getting even better! Congrats man!
Amazing work...I love this weeks Art show submission. Ruben, you gonna be at The Strangers BBQ this weekend?
I've working to get a piece of his work ever since I saw the first example. I think his work is just great. J.
aw HELL yea.... I'd seen 'Sailor's Girl' (is that the right title?) on Ruben's site---about flipped out when I saw it in person at Doc's house I ,too,have one of Ruben's paintings, and I'm waiting for him to do another big one that "talks" to me. I WILL have another piece by him someday Good dude, great artist.
Looks just like me in uniform! except i have a roadster and I threw my old lady to the curb. nice art
An amazingly talented artist. I get a kick out of his various mediums: oil on canvas, oil and transmission fluid on canvas, oil and motor oil on canvas... Hardcore hot rod art!!!!
I wanted the Sailors Girl pretty badly. The only consolation I have is that it ended up with a great guy.
Amazing Art, Amazing Artist. That painting of the Dick Flint roadster is my favourite. Sweet 16 with Wally Parks in the cockpit is a close second.
Ruben's work hangs with the best of them at my place. He has done several paintings for me. I really love his work. Great artist. Great Guy. This is the photo we picked to start "Sweet 16" with..... This is a sketch he did before starting.... This is the final painting..... This one is called "VIC". It is Vic Eddlebrock at the lakes....the sketch... A progress shot... The finished painting...... And this one is of my wife. One of my favorite photos of her, taken the day she was helping me tear out the interior of my 36 before it went for surgery. ....it's called "Shop Girl"
His art is in the new Rod&Kulture. I really like the coupe with the sailor and his girl also. It caught my eye as I was thumbin through the pages at the newstand. Very nice work, I also agree it reminds me of Norman Rockwell's art. later shawn
"Shop Girl" is great. It's a talented artist who can capture mechanical detail and human features equally well.
So Doc owns "Sailor's Girl", that's a real nice painting. Being in Oz, Ruben's work first came to my attention a couple of months ago, when a painting (number 7 above) was published full page in a magazene that shall remain nameless. Since then R&K Illustrated has done a spread, kool stuff. In his story Mike Parker described Ruben's style as like, among other things, "Juxtapoz Magazine collided with The Saturday Evening Post". He also said (for those who haven't seen the article) that Ruben mixes engine oil, trans. fluid and brake fluid in with his paints to maintain the connection with his subjects, the cars. Ruben Duran is one hep kat!
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