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@Kehaulani said in Artist on BOARD:

Big Dub, did you study at an art program or otherwise?

My only real formal education was a two year program at my local community college but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the influence from family members. Then there is my constant appetite to read as much about technique and theory, and observe other artists work, and learn from as many people as I could whether it be negative or positive- all the time.

I was asked if I do commissions. Here I will share in the next couple of days commissioned pieces I have done, and I would suggest you see if you can discern a difference in the subject matter. This will be easy, I think.

Well, this one certainly defies explanation

Witness protection family portrait.

@SSmith1226 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

@BigDub said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

Witness protection family portrait.

Now I see why you don’t do portaits!

What are you talking about?

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226 A friend of mine in college used to laugh his ass off (pun intended) listening to this.

I first heard this at age 10 -12 in the late 1950’s. My father had recorded it on a reel to reel tape. I would sneak into his office and listen to it along with some recordings of Bell Barth.
The original recording of the International Crepitation Contest has an interesting history For those interested, here it is:

“The Battle at Thunderblow: The Great Crepitation Contest of 1946” is a comedy record of mysterious origins that gives a play-by-play account of an international farting contest between Lord Windesmear and challenger Paul Boomer. The exact source of the record is unknown, but according to a post on Rand’s Esoteric OTR it was created by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sports announcer Sydney S. Brown and producer Jules Lipton some time in the 1940s.

Although it appears to have been only produced as an internal joke and not commercially distributed, it managed to survive as a benchmark of high-end fart comedy for more than half a century.

As a matter of fact I demonstrated my low brow humor by only laughing at the sound effects, which were many.

This was a family farm from Wisconsin ( I think I recall correctly ) that I did as a commission a few years ago.

More from the "Commissioned Paintings"
This one is almost 40 years old.
As you can see here, this is not my typical choice of subject matter....

Next I share another commissioned piece. There are plenty of things in this painting that I enjoy painting, the restrictions and things that had to go into it put a bit of a damper and made me feel a bit handcuffed in regard to my overall feeling of the whole thing.

People did like it a lot, however, and that is the bottom line, isn’t it?

@Dr-Mark said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub
Very nice. I still don't know how you do it but please keep doing it.

Thank you, Dr-Mark....I don’t think I will be stopping any time soon, Lord willing. Not even sure I could stop. It is a very strong desire to continue.

@SSmith1226 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

@Niner
I wasn’t trying to be fecalitious, I was trying to be facetious. But as long as we are are on the random topic of the “Stool Bus”, this is an inside view of it. It is a rare opportunity to see such a view on a trumpet web site!

How did you get that photo of the inside of my bell before I cleaned it?

The stream was from Doc's travels to the Gatlinburg Tennessee area. The two Schnauzers were his ( Emily, Gray) and his Mother in Law’s ( Ellie, the black one ).
The farm snow scene happened like this: One snowy very cold Saturday morning I felt it would be great to take some nice snow scene photos for future reference material. Must have been Monday I hear from Doc, that he is thinking about a farm snow scene for a painting from me!

An oldie. I did like the way this one cake off, though. It was done in perhaps 1980, plus or minus a year or two. This, too was a commission. I did love doing it, by the way.

Took some reference photos before delivering a recent painting to folks in PA along the Delaware River and this is what I ended up with....

@Kehaulani, I am unlike Bob Ross. I am still living. And..........

@Dr-GO said in Artist on BOARD:

But hmmm. Would my paintings be worth more?
Priceless...

Let me share why I don’t care to be compared to Bob Ross by way of this article: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-bob-ross-owes-happy-trees-forgotten-painter

In the article it tells how Bob Ross learned the technique and subsequently steamrolled over William “Bill” Alexander, who taught him the entire wet on wet technique. Bob Ross was Bill Alexander's protege. Ross went on to overshadow Bill Alexander, but not before putting his own name on all of the tools and paints and materials originally sold by Alexander. The difference? Ross's handles were white. Alexander's where natural wood tone. Even the phrase, “Happy Little Trees”, he stole from Bill. That is why I didn’t care for him too much nor enjoy being compared to him..
See for yourself.

Here is a work in progress, though maybe nearly complete.
I have to live with it and look over what I want to add or “fix”