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SoloBolo

Trad climber

groveland, ca

Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 24, 2006 - 02:37am PT

hey all,
im taking an Art class and will most likely be pumping out some killer projects. what were some of your best projects that come to mind?

Ouch!

climber

Jan 24, 2006 - 03:04am PT

I once took a big coon's pecker and hollowed it out and carved it up in real neat designs and made a ballpoint pen out of it. Gave it to a woman and she was proud of it but never knew what it was. Bear peckers make good ones too.

Coon's pecker carving is probably more craft than art.

climberweenie

Trad climber

San Jose, CA

Jan 24, 2006 - 02:01pm PT

i helped a dude in college break into the classroom at night and spread birdseed all over the floor... not sure what the symbolism or point of it was. also did something with putting a lawn on top of a car. those wacky visual arts classes. pretty weak excuse for units.

Edge

Trad climber

New Durham, NH

Jan 24, 2006 - 02:19pm PT

All of my artwork (furniture designer/builder)is three dimensional and fully functional. I get the impression you are referring to 2D stuff, but perhaps I am wrong?

David

Trad climber

San Rafael, CA

Jan 24, 2006 - 02:39pm PT

One upon a time in what feels like another lifetime I was a pretty dedicated painter. Here's one...

Reprise
15"x15"
oil on board

These days I whore myself as a pixel pusher. ;)

Apocalypsenow

Trad climber

Cali

Jan 24, 2006 - 03:14pm PT

A 5' high all oak cam (makes Becky's look tiny, sorry Fred). Someday I will post a photo of it.

matisse

Trad climber

Jan 24, 2006 - 03:29pm PT

David,

That's lovely.

David

Trad climber

San Rafael, CA

Jan 24, 2006 - 04:50pm PT

Extracurricular time is reserved for climbing and skiing.

Besides...my comment about whoring was sarcastic bull sh*t. I like what you and I do. It requires the same skills and more.

Gary

climber

Desolation Basin, Calif.

Jan 24, 2006 - 05:05pm PT

The John Register thing, eh? Very nice, David. I never did grasp the meaning of the empty chairs, though.

Nate D

Trad climber

San Francisco

Jan 24, 2006 - 05:35pm PT

Nice painting David. Seems I'm not the only artist who "sold out" to the commercial world of pixel pushing. Some day, I shall return... some day.

But back when I was in art school, and before I was a climber, we had to do an "earth art" project of sorts. I always loved the mountains, so I set out to frame one of my favorite peaks. I constructed a large triangular "frame" out of big wood sticks found in BCC of SLC and 'bout killed myself scrambling in the snow above a huge overhang on the side of the canyon (later learned it was the S-Curve crag in BCC). I strung up that frame with heavy fishing line, dangling about 20 ft. below the lip. From one particular perspective, from the trail below, as it slowly pivoted in the wind, it "framed" the triangular Sundial Peak in the distance - some 4 miles away. I got an A. (I'd scan and post a picture if I only had time.)

A year later, I got to talking with a climber about some of my art projects, and I was surprised to hear that he definitely had seen that "piece" - saying some climbers thought it was cool, while others thought it was stupid visual pollution and wanted to cut it down. I had no idea my project encroached upon anyone's playground.

Erik Sloan

climber

Jan 24, 2006 - 07:07pm PT

Cher painted my place sick...here she is testing out the rig

Apocalypsenow

Trad climber

Cali

Jan 24, 2006 - 07:11pm PT

Very Zen. Could she do my place?

matisse

Trad climber

Jan 24, 2006 - 09:11pm PT

I'm still working on my web site (or more specifically my webmistress, the 17 y.o. niece is)

edited to add copyright 2005

David

Trad climber

San Rafael, CA

Jan 25, 2006 - 09:29am PT

Very nice! Watercolors?

Mike's right, it's a shame to reduce these things to low res web graphics.

matisse

Trad climber

Jan 25, 2006 - 11:17am PT

watercolor. full sheet ie 22 X 30 before framing.

Gary

climber

Desolation Basin, Calif.

Jan 25, 2006 - 12:43pm PT

Wow, Sue, I always thought those were photos.

matisse

Trad climber

Jan 25, 2006 - 01:43pm PT

They look less photographic up close, because then you can see the fun and unpredictable stuff that watercolor can do. I work from photos, since it's hard to paint en plein air when you always have to paint at night. A lot of people skip the drawing step, they trace slides- I don't. Often I combine elements of 3 or 4 photos into a single piece.

This one is from a while back (Mr. Knott has been nice enough to host it on his site)...

copyright 1999

Jerry Dodrill

climber

Bodega, CA

Jan 25, 2006 - 08:35pm PT

I was in an art program at a private college, which was quite conservative. There was a legacy of installation pieces just showing up on campus overnight. On one clear winter night we were bored and had limited resources, so stole a bunch of chalk from a class room and went all over campus making bogus crime scenes with graphic outlines of dead and dismembered bodies, weapons, etc. We got more and more carried away over the two hours we were sneaking around. Satisfied that people would be scratching their heads in the morning we went to sleep. Clouds moved in and several inches of snow fell, erasing our fun. There was some statement we were trying to make, but I can't remember exactly what it was. Something about the death of artistic expression due to censorship. The program chair or aministration must have pissed us off again.