Art thread

[Hannahrain]

How's it going?

[SubBass49]

It shows promise...just use it as an underpainting or a basis for a bigger piece...

[goose]

dont know if id call it art, more like doodles...











link if you want to see more
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...0-efcb5f09576f

wow, this looks like semi of what i do... although your drawings here are more detail and cluttered than mine. I mean that in a good way btw :P

I really love it.

[Senor Cardgage]

I make rock concert posters that look like this:



You can pages see more of mine at: http://www.gigposters.com/designers.php?designer=35804

[ewiggy]

holy crap, senor cardgage! i totally used this poster:



for inspiration the last time i was working on a gig poster. it ended up looking completely different and kind of terrible.

anyway, good to have you here - i like your style. yay designers.

[Senor Cardgage]

Hey thanks! Im flattered.

[SubBass49]

Yo SC...I may think you're a complete dick from our interactions in the celebs thread, but I can't knock your artwork...fuckin dope styles!

[thefunkylama]

Senor Cardgage.

[ewiggy]

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[wmgaretjax]

Acupuncture for Temporal Fruit

[Senor Cardgage]

Yo SC...I may think you're a complete dick from our interactions in the celebs thread, but I can't knock your artwork...fuckin dope styles!

Sorry man. No hard feelings about that.
Was just bein a douche for fun. No ill will.

[SubBass49]

Goes for you too...kinda figured...

[artisticcreator]

Here is a work I finished last night! 40 x 18 on wood!
What do you think?

[artisticcreator]

This is the t-shirt I'll be wearing!

[wmgaretjax]

a mentor of mine has a piece showing at cambridge.

[thefunkylama]

bump

[kroqken]

They do have some nice art in this thread.

[ewiggy]

this is one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me. i got a message on myspace the other day from someone who is a fan of my work asking for permission to use one of my images as a tattoo.

i gave him permission, and the next day he and his friend got matching tattoos. they came out beautifully. here they are:





i think they're my biggest fans ever. i just can't believe someone likes my work enough to want to have it on them for forever. it's amazing.

[algunz]

Ewiggy - I like you. (And how would I know that? I just read random email messages well.) As art, that shit is cool, but as a tattoo I find it kinda pitiful.

[Hannahrain]

That is very very cool. Ewig for the win.

And maybe since that guy respects you so much, you can have a talk with him about the shorts.


Algunz, as an art critic I find you kinda pitiful.

[Omar1]

Those shorts are pretty cool I think.

[mountmccabe]

Awesome.

[ewiggy]

(And how would I know that? I just read random email messages well.)

i have no idea what that means.

As art, that shit is cool, but as a tattoo I find it kinda pitiful.

pitiful? why?

That is very very cool. Ewig for the win.

thank you, hannah.

And maybe since that guy respects you so much, you can have a talk with him about the shorts.

i actually dig the shorts.

[sydaud]

Hmm. Well here's a piece from my first chapbook...

A Party You're Not Invited To

If it's true what they say
about everyone having skeletons in their closet,
I'd like to believe mine
are dancing.

Swaying to the melodies of
Billie Holiday or Nina Simone or
maybe they're body rockin'
to funk and soul and
not a soul knows
except me.

I'll bet between
stone-washed jeans and a
vintage tee they're
waltzing to symphonies
and harmonies like
honeybees around a hive.

Perhaps their soft taps
are backed by a hip hop beat
from Common or Jay-Z
or Only God Can Judge Me.

Maybe it's classic rock like
Skynyrd,
The Doors or Stones
or Bad to the Bone
though it would be
so horribly literal.

They move
with hollow skulls and no regret,
rotting teeth and cigarettes.

They glide among my
hangers and shoes
insecurities and pride though
they have no eyes
so they really can't cry.

The ribcage is a stage and
their once-alive hearts
are steppin' to the beat
of all that moves and lives
and they live for torment and pleasure.

Envy doesn't get much better
than an array of joints
sharing a head nod and a
joint in remembrance of a
Marley song cuz we've all
done wrong but
every little thing's
gonna be alright.

Sometimes I think I
hear them whispering
in murmurs that sound like
almost-laughs and
I wish I was in on their joke.

Misery must really love company
because there are hundreds of them
drinking and clinking their cups to sin.

And even though we hold
so much disdain for one another
I don't know of any other
marrow that turns sorrow into celebration.

And one night when the world is
a chaos of bad dreams and
untucked sheets
I'd like to believe
amid a closet door creak
and bedtime feet
they'll let me in

...to dance.

For whatever reason, long after I read it, I thought about this poem at work today. And I think it's fucking brilliant. Shame on me for not saying that right after I read it.

[ewiggy]

i missed that the first time, but i like it. way to go, phoenixsky.

[algunz]

(And how would I know that? I just read random email messages well.)

Ya know people who say they can really read people. Whateber.

I only find the art pitiful in the sense that the cassette is such an archaeic means of music recording, and what are they/you trying to say by tattooing this to themselves. Music bleeds?

[PineapplePete]

an interpretation...

Ewiggy, I like those. The transformation of the geometric lines of technology into the organic forms of a tendril of plant matter is a nice contrast. (Or is it perhaps more sinister than a plant? A bloody artery blown-up to monstrous proportions?) And the use of wood is interesting as it underlines this organic/technological divide.

They almost are going to a place similar to Kiki Smith, but replacing the delicacy of her work with a graphic intensity.

[ewiggy]

I only find the art pitiful in the sense that the cassette is such an archaeic means of music recording, and what are they/you trying to say by tattooing this to themselves. Music bleeds?

i would be offended, except for that doesn't make sense. you're batting 1,000 here.

[SubBass49]

i think they're my biggest fans ever. i just can't believe someone likes my work enough to want to have it on them for forever. it's amazing.

And maybe since that guy respects you so much, you can have a talk with him about the shorts.

Hahaha....so true! I thought maybe a girl had gotten a tattoo of your work for a second...

[SubBass49]

(And how would I know that? I just read random email messages well.)

Ya know people who say they can really read people. Whateber.

I only find the art pitiful in the sense that the cassette is such an archaeic means of music recording, and what are they/you trying to say by tattooing this to themselves. Music bleeds?

Isn't it supposed to be roots in the original? Or did I misinterpret the image when I first saw it?