Best posts made by BigDub

@SSmith1226 said

Who do you expect would have any experience in that territory?

I’m pretty sure it’s a trap. Don’t take the bait.
This is coming from an unqualified, non expert.

Here's another to scrutinize at your leisure

My cousin has a job where his crew works on punch lists for new homes. One recent occasion he had to secure someone to mow a section of lawn that was currently an eyesore. He asked his one employee who could communicate in Spanish to ask the young Spanish speaking man if he could do it. After showing the young fellow how the commercial mower worked for a few minutes, the young man said he was “listo” ( ready )
After about a half hour after watching the man mow, a supervisor came over and asked my cousin what was taking so long. He wasn’t happy. My cousin went to get a closer look. The mower was making laps and had been doing so all this time. The grass was the same as when he started! He didn’t realize he mower blades needed to be engaged in order to cut the grass. He was just going through the motions, like a car race.....

Yes. True story.

Here's a tip.
Surround your car with chicken wire.
It'll be impeccable.

@Dr-Mark said in Artist on BOARD:

Hi BigDub,
Isn't it amazing that when your painting is compared to a photo or to seeing the trees and mountains, your trees don't look like trees and your mountains do not look like mountains but our imagination allows us to appreciate your trees and mountains far more than we would if we were to look at a simple photo. Bravo!

The funny thing is, more than once I have had someone say in response to a painting I have shown, “you should paint that one, it would make a great painting”
Uh, hem, yeah.....I did already. That’s it right there. You're looking at it.
Here, for example, is something for your keen eyes to examine for “yer own self”
Which is which?

@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.