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Mike

 

My attempts at art(or at least at painting)

 

First timer on Art show!!..learnin the brushes and havin fun!

 

another

 

Huston, I mean, Oklahoma City, we have a problem...

 

Blackie! God, man! That is just plain beautiful! I may just have to give up drawing cars and take up Amish country crafts or paint by numbers. Simply outstanding work Eric!
Polock! You know I love that DeSoto. I am still floored!!!
Forty- that glass top is offa da charts buddy. Just plain wicked! The forty cartoon is way sool too!
Lockwood- very very cool!
Pacheco- Dude you KNOW that I love yer work and that sectioned pickup is out of this world. The tat design is bitchin too!
GaryC- Tasty take on an Italiano inspired bird. Those exhaust outlets still get me. BeeYouTeeFul!
Dutch- Cant say it enough, I love your work, always and that bike is amazing!
Jez- Wow, dude. I love the dragster. You got a definite style
A32Flathead- That Merc photo is gorgeous. I may need to do a drwaing of it soon.
Acrochicken- you photos rock and that blue flake coupe is the shit!!!!
WWW- very very cool man!
oO- I sure love your style. God, man! That painting is beautiful and almost haunting.
Pontiacres- outstanding embroidery
I'll be posting up somthin' a little later tonite.
Cheers!!!

 

I still digitize the "Traditional" way, still hand draw my art, and use a Board and Puck to plot the stitches, as Ive done since I started in 87. Im still using 1988 software.

Here are pics of the process

Art is scanned and Printed, enlarged to 3/1 it possible and traced adjusting for pull in problem areas.

Wire frame or line art is taped to the digitizing board, center and horizontal angle are plotted in. Stitch type and machine functions are on the menu at the left side of the board.

Stitch type is chosen on the menu, using various key combos on the puck I define the shapes of each segment.

After the design has been plotted in, I run through and edit on screen, fine tuning the points Ive input. Then it goes to the machine for a proof on similar material or graments to its intended use.

I then watch the sewing, and make adjustments to what I see happening on the machine.

Shading is done by plotting and sewing another color over the base color but with less density. Mixing colors by eye.



once this program is done, its just a matter of reading it into the machine, setting the color sequence, and watching them sew. A design like the skulls above can run into 40 hours of programming to get the 1st proof, then editing from there.

 

Pontiacres Ranch... your work is utterly OUTSTANDING!! Beautiful work... just beautiful.

 

Thanks for the good word from all that sent it, I really appreciate it.
Great show this week from everybody!!!!
-Gabe

 

finished trophies from last week's post

 

Again very nice art this week!!
Here's a pensil sketch.

 

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what HE said...

DANG them stitches are nice, Ed.

 

Thanks to all the people who appreciated my art this week. I just noticed I let a typo through, I'm normally so pedantic about such things. By the way is here any reason why I can't see any of the thumbnails from page 2 onwards. Is it just a problem at my end (oo-er!) what?

 

Sweet work man!

I was working on one of them Big Finks at one time too. It got sent to me when I was asked to take part in an art show in Austin for the SXSW opening of the "Tales of the Rat Fink" movie.

Bad timing, work deadlines and just bad luck kept me from finishing it.

It currently site out back on my patio, half finished....

Here's some work in progress pics from back in 2006 when I was working on it. It's further along than some of these pics. I'll finish it... someday....

 

Hey Jez-h-r here's the reason why:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=309285

 

Hey i want to get one of the beatnik looking skulls for my van in blue,but of course I dont live near Daytona anymore so tell me how and how much

 

cool stuff everybody! I always look forward to Fridays!

 

That is going to be so cool when it's done. Great use of the Hemi!

 

wood burning pen and water colors

 

really great stuff.
Whitewalls.... i think your work is awesome.
There is so much talent on here every week, it's amazing.

Here is something old/new

 

Wow Sinclair that is wicked.

 

Thanks man.

If I ever get around to working on it again, I might strip out Finky and the Hemi and next time build the body out of some hot-wired and shaped styro, instead of that heavy wood.

 

John, you can e-mail me and tell me exactly what you want done. I'll do any kustom kolors or detail you want. I won't be able to get to it until probably sometime in December when I get this Thanksgiving show
finished! You can contact me at: [email protected]
Thanks for the interest, Tim Nolan

 

Great show everyone,not a lot from me this week because my dumbass broke my camera and am waiting on it to come back so here are some shots of some striping I did at pistons and paint......

 

Sent

 

Sinclair that is awesome...guess he really put his foot in it!

 

Ya done some killar work! Sinclair, daddy Roth would be proud of this one!!

 

1950's Schwinn restored bicycle frame