Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

These first two are test posts, karen reclining nude and opera singer (karen had got fired from the dog pound and the operetta singer was a librarian downtown)

i love the nude. it's really sensual. who's karen?

I'd love to be able to do this. When I draw I draw things like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/b ... d-tree.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/b ... Lennon.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/b ... p-post.jpg

and what do you mean by "test posts"?

Test post
pest post
best post
worst post
goin postal in this jam, man!

sweet visions ya got, first the haiku
then the toon

karen was a model at the art center
the opera singer modeled for us one evening at another location.
same town.

Cartoon giggles!!!!
If ya want art lessons, you would not be wasting your time, with your original visions waiting to be released!

Beginning life drawing is my reccomendation, that's all I did.


bennie's "street lamp pissing on dog" ha ha indeed!

I like it, matey!

This one I call "resurrection blues" ...It is the last one of my Shreveport drawings, done in 1984 and in the opening art show at the new Vet Center there, where I started coming home again. I was wandering around this urban desolation area and saw this scene, old bridge and new and it made me realise a vision I had for renewal, back then when I had no fuckin ideas.

I retouched it in about 1995 and had it in the members' art show here in st pete art center.

oops I found another Shreveport drawing, so will post it here....

big mike at red river bridge, 1986

I really like "resurrection blues".

That's some vision!

big mike at red river is a beautiful too.

Glad my lamp post pissing on dog amused you. I thought it was time for retribution.

I think your toon scribbles have feeling, man, whether it is retribution or what, I mean, look at this one about Lennon,

it encapsulates the tragedy, a peaceful singer gunned down, completely, and you seperate yourself from the scribble by saying that you know who you are etc, a testimony to sanity and a soft joke at the old beatle's expense, nothing short of eloquent....
and the other one,



definately disturbing in a humerous way, with the juxtapositions of attack woman and forest!!!
the distortions are well composed, as we hope the artist is, despite his visionary creations....

JLoco, from "Ressurection Blues" to the opera singer, it's as if Charles Sheeler had lunch with Goya (the artist, not the food company).

Seriously, the opera singer & reclining nude conjure the 18th century, timeless imagery, "Old Europe" .... followed by the Grand Experiment, the "starry dynamo in the machinery of night", AMERICA, the land of on & off ramps, super highways, convenience stores, cranes, construction projects, and Gates-colored safety cones.

"Ressurection Blues" does it for me. I'm a sucker for magisterial landscapes, be they photographs, drawings, or paintings. In this work particularly, the sweep of motion and the convergence of soaring lines are harmonized by the disappearing concrete tresses. Reminds me of the southern New Jersey shore area, lots of coastal salt marsh and similar such bridges.

For me, it's landscapes over portraits. I find more that inspires me, more that plucks my art soul heart knot, in urban scapes, landscapes, city detritus & decay, the scraps and remnants of humanity; the human trace instead of the human face.

One of my favorite Sheeler works:



Bennie, you are a scribbling, quirky maestro, and funny as heck. Snap, crackle, POP your spinning mind bucket. GRAND (in small lined-notebook way).

Oh, and JL, nice banner, a blue hootenanny or some such.

My eyes.....my eyes......

Hey these are very good. Karen is well and tastefully done....sounds like I'm describing a turkey .

"Resurrection Blues" is great!

Enjoyed viewing.

Is it wrong to say Bennie's doggie looks like a cat. (Don't tell him I said that.)

my dog looks like a cat?

I have never been so insulted in my entire life.

How dare you!




the thing I like about that picture is the smile on the "cat's" face.

As if he's saying "yeah, okay, I get and appreciate the irony. good one, lampy ol' lampost ol' buddy ol' pal."

Jimbo - I am absolutely awed! Your work is fantastic! Stunning! Riveting! Excellent! geezzzzzzz

I knew it! I knew you had more somewhere and I'm so happy to see it and so pleased you have posted these here!

I can't wait to make you an art page.... We've got to get this content management software set up... Our time is so limited... it's nuts... It will all be easier developing the site when we do that.

Excuse all... I just clicked and got blown away by Jimbo's work and really haven;t looked at the rest of this thread yet .... I'll be back to view the rest.

Well Doreen's compliment I confess is the best, what can I say, but hey, there's more about twenty drawings more of some quality, yet you have to understand that I did thousands of drawings, lots of crummy ones, and yet, finally, what I am coming to is not greater skill with greater consistency, but an appreciation of the act of drawing itself, like it just happens.
Usually ya just fall in the water with a belly splash.
Plus those were when I was at my prime. Little rusty lately tho, haha.
As far as the sheeler painting goes, well, thanks. I do find a sort of absurd beauty in desolation industrial scenes, but I'd make mine more sooty for sure. His lines are too clean for me. Just the same, very appealing yes.

I have gotta post some of my lousy drawings to show you.
Bennoe your avatar must be in some kind of yellow haze!!!!
first there was oprange sunshine now there is yellow haze!1!

Mousey are you saying that she has drumsticks!?
She ain't no piece of meat, man, she was a model who had lost her job at the dog pound, a single mom, actually, and I always felt that she was having a bit of a struggle, yet she was doing allright.
Here we go again, but hey don't stop. It's all good.

Jimbo I meant no such thing. That would be pretty ignorant of me.

Bennie, you've got a marvelous sense of humor and sense of irony. And I really enjoyed your pictures.

Mousey, we live on parallel strings.
I love everything you say,
and only Bennie could see a
monk on the wing
with kia's.
Her legs do look a bit like drumsticks.
And we are all just meat
in a way.

You are not ignorant.
Your comment, tastefully and well done
was the clue. It was my spontaneous translation
to provoke, not yours, sister. My apologies,
once again.

It's my jaundiced eye looking, lost, found.
self portrait with finger and saliva wash.

jim!

those are great... especially the women.
i love them both, and all i can say is whow! more, please!

-a

You know, I thought maybe you were just pulling my drumstick.
But I wanted to clarify just in case. I don't want anyone thinking I'm a witchie woman. I may be, but I don't want anyone thinking it.

Anyway I really do enjoy your art.