This page is under construction as of Jul 13, 2017. It's the end of May 2018, and this page is in pretty good shape. I know, I'm a little slow getting things done.
So it's May 2018, and I blew up the blog and my goal is to put it back together. The Blog now is under restoration and more construction. Maybe a day of effort can fix all its ills. Well, that was a nice dream. I'm still finding the pictures. When I put the BMW back in it got me closer to finishing this page. Now if I can Find the Charlie Mingus picture and the effects I use, I'll have it all back.
I've done quite a bit with art and with music so I thought I'd add some links so the viewer can see what and how I use the art I see, and in some instances how I apply music to the presentation. Most of it comes from my YouTube account. YouTube is a great tool to promote whatever endeavor you engage in. So, come and take a look.
I spent a few years doing art shows in the Fellowship Hall of the church I attend. I was the organizer, director, picture puter upper food getter and janitor. It is definately hard work. I got to meet many fine artists during this time.
So it's May 2018, and I blew up the blog and my goal is to put it back together. The Blog now is under restoration and more construction. Maybe a day of effort can fix all its ills. Well, that was a nice dream. I'm still finding the pictures. When I put the BMW back in it got me closer to finishing this page. Now if I can Find the Charlie Mingus picture and the effects I use, I'll have it all back.
I've done quite a bit with art and with music so I thought I'd add some links so the viewer can see what and how I use the art I see, and in some instances how I apply music to the presentation. Most of it comes from my YouTube account. YouTube is a great tool to promote whatever endeavor you engage in. So, come and take a look.
I spent a few years doing art shows in the Fellowship Hall of the church I attend. I was the organizer, director, picture puter upper food getter and janitor. It is definately hard work. I got to meet many fine artists during this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm3piLH0b3k&index=2&list=PLPeGXc06UBbaI8pdd6bMwd97Hf5dja6--&t=11s
Bobs Bad Art Show Promotion:
This is a YouTube Red presentation I made for my March 2018 show at the Hays Senior Citizen Center. . I liked making this because it stretched me a little bit more where I could showcase some of the art I had painted to show viewers what to expect in the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JorQ3MmflWw
Pushing the Limits II: This show featured my eclectic artist friends. One of the artists, Amy Edginton was a poet and one the most creative person I ever met. She did collage art from old magazines, cut out pieces and then made fantastic presentations. Unfortunately she passed away a few years ago, but her poetry and art lives on. The show was fun to do, especially during the open house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTARIesqeY&t=53s#t=23.597077
Colorful Collaborations of Music 2016: My friend and pal Angela Green did several shows with me. Her art sold well, especially in the African American community. We did one other show where she painted to a musician I hired. We had a gala open house with lots of special invited guests. it was a great success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUAW8euJl5s
This My Home 2014: My Mary Ann Stafford never ceases to amaze me with her art presentations. She has show going on everywhere it seems like year round. This July 2017 she is doing a show with 10 other artists.
Come Back Kong, Come Back: Working on the below picture and seeing it develop was fun. It is an acrylic with touches of Magic Marker on acrylic paper. I'm sure the way Posters were created in the 20s was quite primitive. Today it's push a button here and there and it's done.
I developed this 1928 Art Deco picture and when I got to this point, I wondered what the girl is looking at while standing in a plant and flower bed. It came to me in a dream It had to be a gorilla as a reminder of the era of King Kong. I realize the movie didn't come along to 1933, but 1928 seemed like a good starting point.
You can see that the bottom of the picture is not complete and requires touch up here and there. I let it set for a few days until my mind told me a direction.
This is my King Kong Gorilla that I added. He is kinda goofy looking, but I wanted humor in the picture and this worked. You might notice the gorilla only has 4 fingers and 4 toes. He lost one finger to a coconut and the other to a young gorilla chewing off the other. One toe went when he stubbed it really really bad and other to a carnivorous fish in the water.
I added a pole to the building for him to clasp and put another ledge on the building. I sharpened up the lines on the girl as well. The airplane is significant to the 1933 movie.
The first footer I added I used a stencil to outline. I decided the font was too big and created another footer on the Laptop using MS-Word. I first added the color of the background, then added the logo in a large font and finally created the two end grey pieces to emphasize the picture's name. I attached the paper footer to the picture and then framed it in an 18X24 inch frame. I selected a white mat with a black border and then framed it.
I took many pictures of my March 2018 show. The gallery where the pictures hang has a gentle curve. I shot down each end of the gallery and made a collage intersecting in the middle of the wall. That way I can capture the pictures on both ends. It just one those things that goes on in my mind.
TIMELESS CAMARO Video
The link takes the viewer to a YouTube Presentation about a Camaro that has defied time and continues to serve its owner to this day. He's a tad eclectic, but a good guy and someone I value as a friend. The car speaks for itself. Originally completed on PowerPoint and converted to a video using Wondershare and finally the upload to YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2892AUzjgE
A Colorful Beat: This is a composite picture I made from my friend Angela Green's portfolio of Jazz Art. She uses vivid colors to create her art. I took several of her pictures on this subject matter and pulled them into a collage creator and came up with this profusion of color.
I ended up having a an 8.5 X 15 made. I framed it in an orange mat under museum glass. The picture is so stunning that it has promotional potential, much more so with the museum glass. I can see it being used where the picture expands and contracts drawing the viewer in the dynamic center of the presentation. What could be better than that. Click on the pictures to enlarge the shot. It almost jumps through the screen on my laptop. A real fun project.
This is an unfinished picture of a 1937 experimental BMW roadster made back in the days before WWII. I started out making this just a picture of the car and it has evolved to this point. I'm not sure they used stickers on the cars in that era, but I added them anyway. I selected a picture that showed Nurburgring and one of its curves. There is more I am adding to this project. The car is the essential theme. To emphasize the curves and lines of the car, I thought about the effects a wind tunnel would have on its design, hence the darker shades. When done I may introduce it to the BMW dealer for display. I own a BMW and they charge so much to maintain it, they should display my work to placate me. I think I'll also make a poster to sell.
Sep 7, 2017. I worked on the BMW picture yesterday and created a bad dream. The color I selected for a background turned out dreadful. Today I'll try again. It happens sometimes that the ideas in our head do not quite translate properly. I dare not take a picture of the bad approach as I'm sure I'd want to destroy the picture. I have an interim picture I'll post taken before the dreadful brushstrokes occurred. The below picture added color and some refinement. Probably about 90% complete. The picture at the right uses a neon effect. The car shows well in this view. In this version the BMW large emblem shows it needs tweaking, part of the remaining 10%.
The above examples uses Photoshop Elements editing options. In picture 1, it removed the color and made it more of a sketch. I tilted the picture for more effect. Just another graphic example. In Picture 2, I went for a snazzy effect that played with the shape (distortion) and a series of actions using the filter gallery. It gives a different perspective of the art through a photo. What could be better! It allows the artist to first paint a picture and thought the use of graphics come up with a shocking action. But then again, I like bizarre actions. From the first effort to the last it allows the mind to open up and see different things. While studying Buddhism this embraces some of the concepts. What fun!
Picture 3 is yet another effect by inverting the color black with white outlining. This is a decent picture that I personally like.
I thought it best to end the sage of this car with a quickie video I made in MP4 Format and put on YouTube. It's just another step in the Graphic mode to show what you can do. Click it and see what comes up.
https://youtu.be/yCkbqxK9RII
This next offering is something that I carried with around the country for 50+ years. It is the family crest that my father and I made. He cut it out on a bandsaw and I did the sketch and the painting. I n 2016, I decided my son should have the crest and I had it elaborately framed and gave it to him. The piece is the only thing I had left from my father so it is special. I also put it on my Ancestry.com site. The crest is on a laminated 3/4 inch piece of wood. When I sketched the crest on the wood I was a teenager in the 1950s. It was my interpretation and when I cleaned it up in 2016, it was indeed a family effort.
All these shots are from a painting by artist Rex Deloney who specializes in Jazz Art. I modified the
examples in the old Picasa program which I kept after Google discontinued it.
Rex sold the original of the picture. It is acrylic and measures 13.5 X 18. It is one of my favorite pieces of art. It is quite abstract in its original setting. Rex's use of color is exquisite. If this picture does not excite you, go visit an eye doctor and a psychiatrist to see what is wrong with you.
Picture 1: I added Focal Zoom., changed it to Black and White to feature the musician. I used Photoshop elements for these changes.
Picture 2: I used Focal Black and White, Graduated Tint and Boost. Don't be shy about making a copy of the original and experimenting with ways to create some funky art expressions. If the music was funky, apply it to the art.
Picture 3: I used a little bit of everything in it from Photoshop Elements. You can experiment and see how you can control effects on your digital photography. Do some research and find out just who Mr. Mingus was during his life. It adds meaning to the art.
Colorful Collaborations of Music 2016: My friend and pal Angela Green did several shows with me. Her art sold well, especially in the African American community. We did one other show where she painted to a musician I hired. We had a gala open house with lots of special invited guests. it was a great success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUAW8euJl5s
This My Home 2014: My Mary Ann Stafford never ceases to amaze me with her art presentations. She has show going on everywhere it seems like year round. This July 2017 she is doing a show with 10 other artists.
Come Back Kong, Come Back: Working on the below picture and seeing it develop was fun. It is an acrylic with touches of Magic Marker on acrylic paper. I'm sure the way Posters were created in the 20s was quite primitive. Today it's push a button here and there and it's done.
I developed this 1928 Art Deco picture and when I got to this point, I wondered what the girl is looking at while standing in a plant and flower bed. It came to me in a dream It had to be a gorilla as a reminder of the era of King Kong. I realize the movie didn't come along to 1933, but 1928 seemed like a good starting point.
You can see that the bottom of the picture is not complete and requires touch up here and there. I let it set for a few days until my mind told me a direction.
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| Come Back Kong, Come Back |
I added a pole to the building for him to clasp and put another ledge on the building. I sharpened up the lines on the girl as well. The airplane is significant to the 1933 movie.
The first footer I added I used a stencil to outline. I decided the font was too big and created another footer on the Laptop using MS-Word. I first added the color of the background, then added the logo in a large font and finally created the two end grey pieces to emphasize the picture's name. I attached the paper footer to the picture and then framed it in an 18X24 inch frame. I selected a white mat with a black border and then framed it.
I took many pictures of my March 2018 show. The gallery where the pictures hang has a gentle curve. I shot down each end of the gallery and made a collage intersecting in the middle of the wall. That way I can capture the pictures on both ends. It just one those things that goes on in my mind.
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| The Amazing Gallery |
The link takes the viewer to a YouTube Presentation about a Camaro that has defied time and continues to serve its owner to this day. He's a tad eclectic, but a good guy and someone I value as a friend. The car speaks for itself. Originally completed on PowerPoint and converted to a video using Wondershare and finally the upload to YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2892AUzjgE
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| Bizzarre and Beautiful |
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| Was ist los? |
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| Progress |
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| Sketchy |
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| Radical Pixelation |
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| Dark Shadows |
Picture 3 is yet another effect by inverting the color black with white outlining. This is a decent picture that I personally like.
I thought it best to end the sage of this car with a quickie video I made in MP4 Format and put on YouTube. It's just another step in the Graphic mode to show what you can do. Click it and see what comes up.
https://youtu.be/yCkbqxK9RII
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| Spencer Family Crest |
All these shots are from a painting by artist Rex Deloney who specializes in Jazz Art. I modified the
examples in the old Picasa program which I kept after Google discontinued it.
Rex sold the original of the picture. It is acrylic and measures 13.5 X 18. It is one of my favorite pieces of art. It is quite abstract in its original setting. Rex's use of color is exquisite. If this picture does not excite you, go visit an eye doctor and a psychiatrist to see what is wrong with you.
Picture 1: I added Focal Zoom., changed it to Black and White to feature the musician. I used Photoshop elements for these changes.
Picture 2: I used Focal Black and White, Graduated Tint and Boost. Don't be shy about making a copy of the original and experimenting with ways to create some funky art expressions. If the music was funky, apply it to the art.
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