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Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2015 - 08:23am PT
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Don't stop Mooser. Very cool to see your portraits, each one is spot on. Great eye you have.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 26, 2015 - 08:26am PT
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I love seeing your work Mooser. Please continue to shate it.
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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Dec 26, 2015 - 08:35am PT
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A few years ago, the Seattle Opera recruited me to sculpt and paint a huge burned out tree for their production of Christoph Gluck's 1762 opera- Orpeus and Euridice.
Here's a 4 minute video of how the steel, plywood and bead foam substrate was constructed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mNnoVI4Ew
I enjoy collaborative projects, sometimes working with a crew of 4-20 other artists. This was one of the few projects where I did 99% of the work solo. Here is the completed sculpted bead foam tree. Notice the tiny scale model on the lower right center table. I had about 10 days to complete the tree.
Tree was separated and sprayed with Polyshield - a melted plastic.
Then painted to look burned and round.
Massive 45'x75' backdrops were painted for other scenes. This is an actual stencil over a muslin drop.
Kevin and Cynthia painting an "Underworld" scene drop.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Dec 26, 2015 - 03:07pm PT
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Awesome, Keith.
I love your work.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 26, 2015 - 03:39pm PT
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Keith...you are a man of diverse art talent! I wouldn't know where to begin with that kind of thing.
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Chalkpaw
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Flag, AZCO
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Dec 26, 2015 - 04:19pm PT
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A short while back I made a wish to someday see James Turrell''s Rodan Crater in Northern Arizona. I had no idea if that dream would come true, but it did with the help with a friend who knew a friend who knew someone and BOOM, I was there to witness the sun pass across the White Disk. Like many Turrell art installations, its quite one thing to study his work and another thing to experience it directly.
https://vimeo.com/67926427
and my own photo. Its worth going to this big big art project.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Dec 26, 2015 - 06:20pm PT
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Very cool post, Keith!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Did this one this morning. First drawing of 2016, with hopefully lots more to follow.
Happy New Year, everyone!
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Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 2, 2016 - 10:15am PT
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Mindy has been doing some cool wood burning on cutting boards.
And believe it or not I started a painting. Been a couple of years.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Beautiful! I wouldn't slice anything on those!
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Justin Ross from North Fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 2, 2016 - 11:21am PT
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Haha, she gave the first two away for Xmas gifts and both of them said they'll probably just hang them on their walls.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mooser... wow, really special neat stuff there, wow...
and say, this just in... neat stuff, too...
i love this fun thread...
am starting some new stuff...
but here is two that just went out...
oh, and this little gift... :))
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... also, kind of a challenge from the step grandkids, auntie... did FIVE of these acrylics... at once, oh my...
and will do one more, later for her...
she wanted to give them all to siblings, this christmas... they are acrylic... and A POEM was pasted into the empty spots on the UPPER RIGHTs...
me, i WOULD HAVE LIKED them better without the heart, but that
was from her memorial, so she wanted it there...
i should have planned better, but there was not time...
i like the PLAN better, with the BLACK FRAMED one, that i did a
cut-and-paste with, to cover the heart with the extra roses...
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Last July I started this painting of Tuolumne Meadows by carrying this 48"x60" canvas up Pothole Dome to a sight I previously scouted out. Here is the beginning of the piece and below the finished landscape which I completed this week. Generally I work on about 10 canvases at a time so they can dry between layers and so I can carefully plan them out and give them some good shoosh!
Tuolumne Meadows 48"x60" Oil on Canvas
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Dickbob
climber
Westminster Colorado
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Neebee's work is the best thing on here.
Just got some shots from my girls, who took a trip to Rome and Florence for the holidays.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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LOVE IT, Mtnmun!
Thanks for the photos from Italy. I spent a week in Firenze with my sister a couple of years ago and she was agog at all the famous people buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce. And seeing the David in person is a very powerful experience.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Neebee is downright prolific!
And Mtmun...love that!!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say... wow, jude... love that greenery...
say, dickbob... great statue shares...
oh my... and as to my work, some of the last ones, i was not
so happy with... but they were planned (the group five-of-ones)
so the set up was not balances as well as i'd like...
i invented the flowerd lower right corners, and that was fun, :)
and doing the gift was sure fun, for those folks, as, i love them all...
but wow, i still got a long wayyyy to go, as to catching likeness, for
the portraits...
some work great, and some, i just can't quite get...
but i am progressing well, with my painting-parts, :))
hope to get some much better ones, like some of THE PAST ones, to add in here again, :)
mooser, wow, if i could get a likeness as well as you, i'd have half the job done, in no time, :)) (though of course, still need to paint them)
as to humans, i am always 'off' in the alignment aspect...
tried to solve it in all the regular ways, but it still happens, :))
:))
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Here's today's portrait. I'm not a big fan of the Vatican, but I kind of like this feller...
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Thanks, Tami. I appreciate the affirmation.
And I second your thoughts on Keith and Neebee!
I don't know Neebee, other than through ST, but I do know Keith personally, and he's a great guy. Both so talented, passionate, and giving.
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