Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Peter Kasin Date: 12 Jan 03 - 09:53 PM I do black ink drawings with Rapidograph pens, fantasy-like drawings of trees with spiderwebs and....well, that sure sounds weird, so I guess you'd just have to see them. Chanteyranger |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Donuel Date: 12 Jan 03 - 11:25 AM I create up to 6 pictures a day now. Here is one from yesterday. http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/easter.jpg |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: mouldy Date: 12 Jan 03 - 02:55 AM Fred, it was B&Q's own brand, not a Dremel! If it does the job the time spent on each piece will be longer anyway... Andrea |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 11 Jan 03 - 08:31 AM The link didn't take. I'll try again. Click here |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 11 Jan 03 - 08:28 AM Here's a bit of my cartooning. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Sam L Date: 11 Jan 03 - 08:11 AM Mouldy don't let anyone know you can make art with those things, the price will triple. Shhh. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Banjer Date: 11 Jan 03 - 04:24 AM Rustic, I also cannot get in to the Yahoo site to view your album. I DO have a Yahoo password and even when using it I get a screen advising me that the site I seek is inaccesible. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: mouldy Date: 11 Jan 03 - 02:54 AM I managed to scrape a degree in graphic design in the 1970s, then after a couple of years working in London, packed in and moved up north to get married. I didn't do much for a long time, never really finding something I enjoyed doing. In the last few years I have started making salt dough models which I sell at craft fairs. They tend to sometimes veer away a bit from the usual girly "dough-dolly" type of thing. (Example: I got hold of a several little scythes from the flower arranging section of a garden centre a couple of years ago. First I made a couple of the expected farmers, then got fed up and turned out some grim reapers instead). This Christmas I got a multi-tool with a flexible drive, and I'm going to see if I can start to carve and detail it more. Maybe it'll lead me into using other media - who knows? Andrea |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 10 Jan 03 - 09:41 PM I sculpt the earth into useable and beautiful (I hope) new shapes and flows... I do stonework... walls, patios, pathways... I plant, prune, and clear... All with aesthetics in mind... Feng Shui and natural art... Placement, arrangement, and water movement (both for the eyes, and for functional drainage... colors, textures, and soil types all turning to function for the final test. ...naps too! ttr |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: CarolC Date: 10 Jan 03 - 09:10 PM No, Rustic. It looks like that's a locked album. I can't get in. They want me to give a password. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Rustic Rebel Date: 10 Jan 03 - 09:04 PM I just went into it, and it looks like I gave my whole photo album up to everyone! I just had to click on photo album, then the album motherclay, then the photo to enlarge. Carol will that work for you? otherwise I will try something different.Thanks Rustic |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: CarolC Date: 10 Jan 03 - 08:59 PM Hi Rustic Rebel. It appears that we need a password in order to look at your site. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Rustic Rebel Date: 10 Jan 03 - 08:56 PM I do sculpture with clay from a pit I have in my backyard. I am working on a series called 'Double Image' I call this double image because they are two sided. All numbered and signed by me-Motherclay. I am limiting this series to 300. I also started a wizard series, that also have two sides. I only have one picture here that hopefully will work when I link this.Also the first glimpse of me on this photo, if it works.my work I also do some jewelry and stone work. Usually grind, polish and use the stones for necklaces in leather. Peace,Rustic |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Jan 03 - 11:27 AM A few folks who haven't posted to this thread have pictures of their handiwork on their Member Photo Pages. Take Quick Links to Member Photos and check out: One of Bill D's turned wooden bowls A hammer dulcimer built by the infamous Catspaw49 Some of Harpmaker's harps (Wow!) Some of John Hardly's pottery (John posted here, but no work photos) These are just the ones I've spotted on past browses through Member Photos. Any others? Bruce |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Will Bakker Date: 08 Jan 03 - 12:13 AM I'm a retired television designer in the Netherlands. Made a lot of station identities and title sequenses. I visited the conferences of the BDA, the Broadcast Designers Association, in Detroit, Washington, Seattle, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. So maybe I met a potential Mudcatter there! |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Cluin Date: 08 Jan 03 - 12:03 AM Definitely, John. It's the most creative, in fact. Since it's all artificial, the product NEVER matches the intent or conception. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Coyote Breath Date: 08 Jan 03 - 12:02 AM 37 strange years as a graphic artist (in promotion and marketing departments) and a great deal longer creating "images" depicting everything from my take on the Space Program to Civil Rights to The War in Vietnam to the general insanity that is our world and many, many, many, highly personal visual images done in every media I could grasp the utilization of (and that is most of them). It never stops. Music is the "sound track" of my life and writing is my argument with God. CB PS He is winning. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: JohnInKansas Date: 07 Jan 03 - 11:59 PM Rodin never finished his Gates, but trying to figure out what he did finish is a real feat. It seems like a fair percentage of "his" bronzes, and a few marbles and plasters, were actually cast/cut/molded a few decades after he died. Sometimes the process goes on and on. Sometimes just planting the idea is creative, though.(?) John |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Cluin Date: 07 Jan 03 - 11:46 PM Rodin never finished his Gates of Hell, Richie. It's process, not product. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Richie Date: 07 Jan 03 - 11:01 PM I studied artwork in college. After college I was selling artwork and playing the guitar. I've taught both music and art classes. I decided to follow music and teach guitar and related instruments. I've been working on two large paintings one of "Heaven" the other "Hell" for some time now. I just don't have the time finish them now. I'd like to do a series of folk song related painting similar to Benton's and have some ideas for the series. I also love to write and have published a few guitar books. My three fiction books are unpublished. -Richie |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 07 Jan 03 - 07:45 PM Oh, good. Thank you. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Don Firth Date: 07 Jan 03 - 07:27 PM Yup. Cartooning is a visual art. Don Firth |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Bobert Date: 07 Jan 03 - 06:42 PM GUEST, Fred Miller, Yeah, how could ya' not live in the Fan District but then found this really secluded and cool place on Fulton Hill where there were three houses and a carriage house on 11 wooded acres on the western side of Fulton Hill. We slowly but surely took over all of the houses with our friends movin' in everytime one came up for rent and had a nice genuine hippie commune 4 miles east of the downtown. Best thing about it is that being at the end of a dead end street it seemed totally isolated. The museum you remember is the Virginia Museum located on the Boulavard. Yeah, nice place. I used to see plays at their theater. Bobert |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 07 Jan 03 - 06:29 PM Does cartooning count? |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Little Robyn Date: 07 Jan 03 - 05:54 PM I've been interested in arty crafty stuff all my life, tho' these days I'm concentrating mainly on portraits in oils. I'm also a smallpiper and (shhhh, don't tell anyone) I play squeeze box for the local morris dancers. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: GUEST,Fred Miller Date: 07 Jan 03 - 05:43 PM Hey, Bobert, didja live in the fan there? Nice museum in Richmond, under-rated I think. I was a drawing major in Murray Ky, majored in naked women, and did a year of printmaking at old Miss, moved to Richmond and sort of abandoned my more ambitious work. Then to louisville. Lately started doing portraits of kids, pretty cheap, and plan to do a show, then reconsider my prices. I'm getting a camera and all in one scanner etc. in a few days, might put some of my junk up. I spent yesterday learning to make fortune cookies, photo'd the first success, today carved red guitar picks into hearts for my daughter to give the girls in her class as valentine necklaces. I'm both a teamster and a seamster. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Donuel Date: 07 Jan 03 - 05:36 PM ello Jim I have found some top shelf examples of writing here, but danged if I could ever find them again. Use the trace icon if there is something you may ever want to get back to. Does photoshop count as art to any curators you know? Here is one of the first photoshop paintings I ever did with photoshop version 1 ! http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/Rensemaddona.JPG |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Don Firth Date: 07 Jan 03 - 05:10 PM Petr, I had a terrific resource for my drawings back then (circa early Forties). I had a subscription to "Flying" magazine. Each issue had a fold-out page (à la Playmate of the Month) featuring, on one side, a list of dimensions and specifications and several photographs, and on the other, a cutaway drawing—of planes like the Curtiss P-40, the P-51 Mustang, or the B-25 Mitchell bomber. They were so detailed that I sometimes wondered if they were inadvertently revealing military secrets. I used to go over those drawings for hours and make study sketches of them before I'd put them into my strips. My sister's husband (now a retired airline pilot) used to fly jet fighters (the Northrup F-89 Scorpion) for the Air National Guard. One afternoon a couple of decades ago, he took me out to the Sand Point Naval Air Station in northeast Seattle to see an "antique aircraft." It was a B-25 Mitchell. I had studied photos and drawings of them and had drawn them hundreds of times, but I'd never seen one for real. I spent a heart-pounding, bug-eyed afternoon crawl all around and through that plane. WOW!!! Don Firth |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 07 Jan 03 - 05:08 PM Welcome to the Mudcat, Jim! Have fun. Make yourself at home. Watch out for a fellow named Spaw whose flatulence is so bad that it can be transmitted by optical fiber! Bruce |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Jim Colbert Date: 07 Jan 03 - 04:45 PM Well, lessee, I've only been a 'catter for about three minutes- I literally just signed on as a member. I'm an art director for a living, which sometimes has something to do with art... often not! But I enjoy pen and ink or pencil drawing most of all; do a little photography, help my wife out on greeting card projects. I used to love to do sloppy, oil-wash paintings, the kind where the line between watercolor and oil is sort of blurred... I keep intending to play with that some more when we get our extra bedroom cleaned out. These days I find more satisfaction from the written word though, be it songwriting, plays, short stories... now in the useta category, throw in block and screen printing, acrylics, watercolor... never had much interest in sculpture; I was always more of a two-dimensional guy. Hmm, maybe that says something! |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Jan 03 - 04:24 PM Photography, web design, sewing (developing patterns for useful objects such as backpacks and cameral lens protectors), garments, decorative sewing, needlework. I'm teaching myself to build furniture now (starting easy, with shelves). I have so much tile left over from the floors, I'll think of something decorative to do with that also. Oh, and I paint--if you count the application of latex semi-gloss to walls! SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Donuel Date: 07 Jan 03 - 04:14 PM nice thread I do oils, wood decoration on musical instruments and computer paintings. I recently got in trouble for a 16 sq.ft.painting I did of 9-11. I even posted it here once. I painted it 10 years ago and sold it 5 years ago to some nice people in TX. however some guests of theirs believed clues could be unearthed. This makes the 5th investigation of my work and words in 30 years. But its still a free country Isn't it? |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 07 Jan 03 - 03:54 PM Thanks for starting this thread... it's great to see what Mudcatters are doing in the visual arts. I'm afraid that I fall more into the Usetado category, myself. I usetado wood cuts and linoleum cuts, usetado wood carving of animals and birds, usetado instrument making from tin can banjos to dulcimer(singular), usetado sketches and drew a bit. The only stilldoin' are cartoon characters for cards. And not as much of that, anymore. I never tackled oil painting or any of the more "serious" arts like my buddy Bobert. But, I enjoyed making musical instruments... almost all of them as gifts to someone else. I made a dulcimer (I guess I have to make that plural) for my oldest son when he was about five or six... used wood from the changing table I built, when he didn't need it any more, a row of guitar tuning pegs, illustrations de coupaged onto the sides from his favorite Richard Scarry books, and cigar box border on the bottom (which was made out of the bottom of a dresser drawer.) Oh yeah, I usetado pottery... thrown and handbuilt. Made the world's largest collection of dog dishes. Jerry |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: GUEST,petr Date: 07 Jan 03 - 03:49 PM interesting that you mention planes Don, I still recall an early formative experience of mine was drawing planes (Russian Migs to be specific). My dad took me to work once when I was 5or6, he was in the army and worked in a printshop. To keep me busy he gave me some pencil and paper for drawing. I started drawing planes, but they were typical kid drawings, one of my dads co-workers came over and said, here do you want to know how to draw a plane so that it looked more real, and he drew one. ANd I immediately picked up on the differences, foreshortening, perspective etc. although I didnt know these terms. of course It was a still a while before I could properly draw, but the more you do the better you get. Funny how, one little incident can be so influential. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: GUEST,Socorro Date: 07 Jan 03 - 03:40 PM sorry, did it again - better reset my cookie. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: GUEST Date: 07 Jan 03 - 03:37 PM Really interesting thread and links! I have been making hand-drawn & hand-reproduced greeting cards for several years, even sell a number of them. I started drawing people's homes, and making greeting cards of the drawings; next i started drawing and reproducing flowers which are native to this area, and are (at least) equally beautiful to the horticultural ones that take so much hothouse care. (I'm really into valuing what's in our backyard, regardless of where we are- i once wrote a paper on "Useful Plants of Urban Waste Places- i.e. vacant lots). I have 5 samples at a website called www.sleepingbean.com, under "Native Notes". You can get there thru Megacrawler. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Don Firth Date: 07 Jan 03 - 03:24 PM At the age of six or so, I became fascinated by "Buck Rogers" in the Sunday funnies (pre-dated Star Trek by thirty-five years); so fascinated that I couldn't wait for next Sunday's paper to see what was going to happen. I would take a pencil and a sheet of my father's typewriter paper and draw my own strip. I picked up the story where it left off and tried to anticipate the next episode. From this, it was a short step to making up my own stories. By age ten, instead of Buck Rogers, I was drawing my own characters, and I decided that when I grew up, I would be a comic strip artist like Milton Caniff, Alex Raymond, or Hal Foster. As a kid, much of my time was spent at my desk in my bedroom or belly-flopped on the living room floor with the drawing board my Dad made for me (Dad was really supportive; he took me to an art supply store and bought me the stuff I figured I needed). On long sheets of drawing paper, with pencil, pen, and brush, I depicted space explorers having adventures on alien planets, costumed crime fighters foiling evil-doers, and a pilot (who bore an odd resemblance to a grown-up version of me) winning World War II practically single handed. I got pretty good. I could draw a B-25 Mitchell or a P-51 Mustang right down to the last rivet. While drawing comic strips, I learned the hard way that I needed to have some idea of where the story was going. Otherwise, I could waste a lot of ink and paper by drawing my hero into a corner I couldn't get him out of. To preclude this, I began to write out the story ahead of time. I described the scene in each panel and wrote the dialogue for the speech balloons, much like writing a movie script. Soon I found myself writing the story many weeks in advance, and just not getting around to drawing the strips. Influenced by a lot of reading, and a creative writing class in high school, I turned my attention to just writing stories and let the drawing slide. I sometimes wonder how I might have done had I stuck to drawing. I read somewhere that Bob Kane was only eighteen years old when his first "Batman" comic books appeared. My drawings at age fourteen were at least as good as Kane's first published stuff. Oh, well. . . . I still whip out a sketch or two from time to time. Usually an irreverent cartoon of some kind. Don Firth |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: katlaughing Date: 07 Jan 03 - 02:37 PM Very entertaining website, Cluin and the artwork is superb. I especially like your Lakota Warrior, even if you don't know why you included it on those pages. :-) Everyone has such wonderful talent and such beautiful work! I love it when we have one of these threads. Bruce, I really love the yellow and blue stuff and the DRUM! Nice work! I've done a few bronze-castings which I really love doing and want to do more. One thing I do mean to do more of is enameling...just waiting to get a small tabletop kiln. I love the instant gratification of it, plus the ablity to manipulate a mistake into a correction.:-) I've had a few photos published and was a state finalist in one photo competition. My cat photos are going in a book someday. Also had some people frame photos of my jewellry designs, as well as buy my pieces, which I mostly do not do anymore. I've just recently had some fun with watercolours when trying them really for the first time in my life. I like to take old found objects and make things out of them and seem to have a knack for doing so. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Cluin Date: 07 Jan 03 - 01:27 PM Yup. Been making art and music most of my life. Some examples on my website... which badly needs updating but whose doesn't, eh? |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: GUEST,petr Date: 07 Jan 03 - 01:07 PM started out painting (oil, watercolours) in my early teens, as well as drawing, (pen & ink, coloured pencil, watercolour pencil) and have continued off and on for the last 20+ years. I also got into sculpture (which I love the most as a visual art), I did some iron casting, some pieces in bronze, as well as papier mache, clay, plaster, even tried stone carving etc. (I entered a cast iron piece I made in a community arts council show, which later went on to the provincial show, and received an honourable mention) of course I have no images available online, but the piece was about 14" long by 2 inches and was a bone (femur) at one end and a polished wrench on the other - I did a few similar, whimsical pieces but about 6-7yrs ago I got into fiddle music, the muse took over. But over the last couple of years Ive been into making, pre-historic goddess images. (willendorf, lauselle etc). Now that Im getting married and have bought a house with my fiancee, we will have lots of room to get involved in various messy art projects (shes quite talented as well both musically and in visual art). petr |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Kudzuman Date: 07 Jan 03 - 12:20 PM John, Thanks!! I gotta figure out how to do that. I might have to read the instructions. Kudzuman |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: John Hardly Date: 07 Jan 03 - 12:18 PM this should be a link to kudzupatch |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Morticia Date: 07 Jan 03 - 12:02 PM wow, you are a talented bunch aren't you? I love that fox,Carol!!I used to draw and paint a lot but now work with computer graphics ( Adobe Photoshop) in the main. I also sew,crochet and all sorts of other crafts. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Sorcha Date: 07 Jan 03 - 11:48 AM Sorcha's Quilts |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Kudzuman Date: 07 Jan 03 - 11:42 AM Alice, Here ya go: www.kudzupatch.net I can't figure out how to get the blue clicky to work yet. Sorry. Cut and past I reckon! Kudzuman |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Sorcha Date: 07 Jan 03 - 11:23 AM I used to do a lot of stuff with fiber--quilts, hangings, etc. but haven't made time lately. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Alice Date: 07 Jan 03 - 11:21 AM Kudzuman, give us your web site address! |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: GUEST,Foe Date: 07 Jan 03 - 11:15 AM I've been showing paintings since 1979 (showing - not selling much) Have some things in corporate collections in California and have been in a few galleries. Currently on the Board of the Hyattstown Mill Arts Project, Clarksburg, MD. Oils, watercolor, photographs, mixed (leather,feathers, wood, stone,etc). Usual response from the public to my work is, "what the hell is that supposed to be?" Ah well. My son is now doing web page design and I hope to have images on line in the future. |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: Kudzuman Date: 07 Jan 03 - 11:15 AM I majored in oil painting at UT in Knoxville, then did professional stained glass(restoration,church windows, Tiffany style lamps etc.) for many years. All original designs and ran my own business. Then I got allergic to flux and took up building instruments which I still do today. Mountain Dulcimers mainly with the occasional harp or bouzouki thrown in. My wife is a great charcoal and pencil artist also. I have a website, but it is a commercial one so I'm not sure if I should list that or not. Happy day everyone! Kudzuman |
Subject: RE: BS: How Many 'Catters Do Visual Art? From: CarolC Date: 07 Jan 03 - 10:59 AM I used to do only pen and ink (in black and white) on paper. I was a fiber artist for about fifteen years after that. I did custom weaving and a small amount of production weaving. The last few years I was doing that, I wove only white cloth and then used surface design dying techniques for the color. I'd say that was my best work. These days I'm working with color on paper and canvas using colored pencils, pastels, water colors and oils. The only stuff I've got on-line right now are some of the pen and inks. (Click on the images or the animal names to make them larger.) Click |