Any artist out there?

[G GOLLY WAlly]

I know there's some talented people on here, so I was curious if anyone has a hidden talent or just something you like to do in your spare time. I like to draw, I'm not great but I enjoy drawing, I need to do it more often. So I'd like to see others talents, be it drawing, painting, woodworking, whatever you enjoy other than radio. So I'll go first, I might mention I'm notorious for starting a drawing, goofing it up and giving up on it.

I actually finished one! The wagon wheel hub was drawn from a book by Gene Frank's, I think the truck was also. as you can see I screwed up the front wheel and give up on it. I think I bite off more than I can chew sometimes, no more than I draw I probably need to choose an easier subject to draw.

 

[S&W357]

Impressive work! I like them all.

The truck is my favorite just as is.

No need to complete it as it appears to be just fading away in a time now gone.

 

[w9cll]

Excellent work! I have been a professional photographer for 40+ years, I don't do it for money anymore and I only shoot for myself now. I am still primarily a film shooter but not 35mm, only medium and large format film. I still have a darkroom here in the house but nowadays I call myself more of a hybrid as I will develop the film but scan it into the computer for finishing.

 

[w9cll]

I envy people who can draw! I tip my hat to you

 

[Handy Andy]

You have a Gift that many of us wish we had!

Nice work.

Every artists' work is an expression - as I can see in your work, you feel it's incomplete, to the rest of us we see this as a building - an overlay - layer upon layer - of work as you complete one layer of a more larger canvas of the work.

There is a saying this says it best...

 

[357magnum]

Awesome ! You have talent ! I Love the Wagon Wheel Hub ! I have one as a Big " Nick Knack " & the drawing really shows the " Depth " , almost looking like mine , except yours is on paper , keep up that awesome work . Stay Healthy & Safe ! 73 & God Bless ! Leo

 

[barefootindian]

Your a very talented artist Wally. Man that's good stuff. I like the tree and the truck, and the faded wheel, ghostish like.
The rocks beneath the barrel. Lots of concentration and details and time honing another of your crafts. Thanks for sharing Wally.

 

[barefootindian]

Hey Wally I saw the wagon wheel hub as a barrel. Its just what it looked like to me. That's the thing with art though, different folks see different things....

 

[L2]

I know there's some talented people on here, so I was curious if anyone has a hidden talent or just something you like to do in your spare time. I like to draw, I'm not great but I enjoy drawing, I need to do it more often. So I'd like to see others talents, be it drawing, painting, woodworking, whatever you enjoy other than radio. So I'll go first, I might mention I'm notorious for starting a drawing, goofing it up and giving up on it.View attachment 43952 View attachment 43953
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I actually finished one! The wagon wheel hub was drawn from a book by Gene Frank's, I think the truck was also. as you can see I screwed up the front wheel and give up on it. I think I bite off more than I can chew sometimes, no more than I draw I probably need to choose an easier subject to draw.

They're all great. The tree is my favorite.

 

[G GOLLY WAlly]

Hey Wally I saw the wagon wheel hub as a barrel. Its just what it looked like to me. That's the thing with art though, different folks see different things....

Your exactly right, my mom had a painting, one of those cheap prints you could get at K mart, anyway it was a picture of a Spanish mission, with a red tile roof and some surrounding trees. for year that's what we all seen when we looked at it. Then my daughter who was five years old at that time stood looking up at it and asked, Nana where do you think that train is going? So me and my mom start taking a closer look at the picture, and sure enough the red tile roof was now a red boxcar and the arched doorways looked like a train trestle. Now when I look at that picture I see a train.

 

[G GOLLY WAlly]

I appreciate the comments, but I don't think their that good, better than average but I'm always my worst critic. I would have loved to have gone to art school but I do enjoy drawing, when I do draw time flys buy, I can kill 4 or 5 hrs and not even realize it. I need to draw more often.

 

[Christopher17]

Don't draw or paint much anymore, still like to make things

 

[Slowmover]

Closest I come is with landscaping. Takes time (daily something or other) and those tiny pieces born of many days reveals the statue still trapped inside the marble block.

Capability Brown (English) is a galaxy away from my scale of efforts. A worthy giant on whose shoulder to stand (among many others).

We were born to create. Evil stamps that out in our lives with the incessant demands of money-slavery. IMO, man only matures when physical & mental have coalesced in Spirit. Thus, Art is born.

And which comes first: Truth or Beauty.

 

[G GOLLY WAlly]

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That's awesome, I wouldn't have a clue how to forge anything out of metal.
Did you chip those arrowheads out yourself?

 

[Christopher17]

been working flint for almost 40 years , frustrating hobby but has it's rewards, blacksmithing is pretty satisfying