Art & Inspiration Friday Art Show...Tribute to El Polacko

I miss my buddy Norm. We always had a fun time together,and we worked on lots of projects too. If I had a big brass band I'd have them play 76 trombones in his honor. Since I don't have a big brass band, I'l just have to settle for a 76 skull salute. Here's some of my Normie art.

 

My two Norm skulls.

 

Moar

 

again

 

It's great seein' all the Norm work together...I really like the Canadian Hot Rods cover Jeff...reminds me of Car-toons !

 

Let's do it again

 

WOW, Doc! Nice collection!!!

 

Doc - you do have an amazing collection fer sure - not just Norm stuff either - I would love to be able to see the extensive collection in person one day!

In the past month we have been getting requests about the 2013 coloring book. Are we going to do one? When will it be out?
So - we went to see what the status was with the 2012 coloring book and we have figured out that we have not recovered the initial investment of the 2012 coloring books.....
as of 2 nights ago we needed to sell 104 of these to break even.....
so I am hoping the HAMB members will help out and purchase one of these so that we can get started on the next one.....
details are at www.helpinghannahsheart.org
scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the coloring book link - there you will be able to see all the different art we have in the coloring book.

Special thanks to all the artists that contributed last year and we hope that there will be even more artists that want to help out in 2013!
2012 Artists include:
John Detrich, Eric Foust,
Grant Cushman, Ryan
Curtis, Dustin
Weisgerber, Kris
Chisholm, Shawn
Spiwak, Max Grundy,
Andrew Wright, Paul
Kester, Nate Greco,
Shawn Dickinson,
ZAKKA, Mike Learn,
BigToe, Chad Lampert,
Joey Finz, Mark
Thompson, Bruce
Gossett, Chad Scheres,
Scott Fisk, Jeff Gaither,
Johnny Jalopy, Corrie
Erickson, Jim Hively,
Ben Mitchell,
BOMONSTER, Del
Swanson, Sara Ray,
Sinclair, Arlo Dillman, &
Ger Peters.
Special Front Cover by Zombie! Back cover by BigToe!

 

All I have is a simple, staight forward shot from a car show in 2009:

Norm Grabowski's Model T by Mike Rogers - Driven Imagery, on Flickr

 

Frankenthinker...

 

My Little guy. Thanks Norm........Thanks Kev.

 

Here is my contribution. R.I.P. Norm

 

Norm a rific gang. Don't forget contributer hotrod jen!! ~sololobo~

 

Great show guys...Rest in Peace Norm...thanks for the inspiration and great memories

 

this has gotta be one of my all time favourite keith weesner pieces

 

Sorry I don't have anything Norm - related. Here are a couple of water colors - the Maserati Boyle Special driven at Indy by Wilbur Shaw and Mauri Rose. and a pile of engine blocks and parts called "I think we can get by with a valve job"
Dan

 

when i was first turned onto a wacom and corelpainter by Mr Norwell i did a load of doodling trying to learn any technique i possibly could...anyway this was a real early example of how hard i was finding it...a caricature sketch of norm

 

Big Frank rolls through his boneyard in a custom tow. My latest. Acrylic on board. Grab a print at my site pgosh.com. Happy Halloween.

 

Quick photog call for help, a friend at a non applicable magazine needs a good photo of a car at a drive in theater. Please shoot me an email and I will send you his. I do not want your image, that is between you and him. Thanks!

email: [email protected]

 

I remember a brief conversation I had with Norm when he came to a local car show,... he said the difficult part of carving his skulls was having to drink all of the Crown Royal rye whiskey so he could get the little purple felt bags to put them in.

 

Nice work everyone. The only thing I have that could be used as a dedication to Norm would be basically the same photo that Mike Rodgers has above that I took during the same car show here in Denver. So instead, here are a few more from the Rodder's Journal event. http://www.pbase.com/dlgphoto/roddersjournal2012&page=all




















My HAMB thread for the Rodder's Journal Event. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=740640&highlight=rodder+journal

 

Very cool. Osage orange?

 

Nice start Dart! Thank you for the kind words, accolades, I did not seek...

Nice, nice work Jef N.!

Killer scratch Bo!

Thanks for sharing all that amazing work Doc!

I'll be back to comment more late, over all, greta show so far everyone!!!

I'd hoped to have time for a new piece for this tribute and still hope to post the sketch but,
for now, I spent some time doing final art on the one I posted last week...


"Norm's Big Send OFF"





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See ya soon!

 

Had my son snap some photos of our little piece of Norm's artwork.

 

I think ya got the market cornered Doc.
My personal favorite...

 

Here you go Doc, one of my favorite versions...... Miss you Norm
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surf monkey that weesner piece is awesome man

 

The man behind the man in the car!
I did this about five years ago.
Here's a little update.

 

Some old pictures of a stencil of Norm's T I did on one of my high school wood-shop cabinets. I cut out the pages of the replica T, taped them on, and cut it out. RIP Norm.

 

i like the boyle special painting.