Posts made by BigDub

@dr-go
Hey, Doc, thanks for the tip. Now I have a better idea what to charge for my artwork. Very helpful, indeed.

I do not have any advice, but only words of encouragement.
Great to hear it went ok, and thanks for sharing the information with us.
Dr GO is certainly the one to listen to, so listen to him!
That’s my advice. Also if Steve Smith has anything to say, ditto.
I am pulling for you, and you are in my thoughts and prayers.

@georgeb
You got it.

Another video on YouTube. Have a look, if you like.

Made it to 1000 views this afternoon! I am planning out another one to come out soon. This time I am going to be a little more organized with my thoughts…..that’ll be tricky.

@georgeb love and appreciate the enthusiasm, but I think they only count people once. Just like our posts here. Can’t like them more than once from any one source.

My video which I posted on YouTube just 2 months ago has generated 933 views so far. I would love to reach that 1K plateau soon.
If you wouldn’t mind taking a look ( that’s all you have to do ), you don’t have to like or comment, just look. I may make it with your help!
Thanks for all the support! And a big thanks to Steve Snith for encouraging me to go for it!

I enjoyed that, Steve. Thanks.

@georgeb
Just to clarify, I never saw the dog. Alive, or in person. Ever. Just one snapshot from the friend who asked me to do it.
Fortunately for me, it was a good photograph, and what she wanted me to use. But thanks just the same, George. I always appreciate your kind words.

Re: Artist on BOARD

A portrait I just completed. Bittersweet, as so many of these can be. A beloved pet who has passed, but I try my best to keep that sweet memory for them this way.

A lot of people make fun of the state I live in. People from 49 states, to be exact….but recently I found out that New Jersey just missed making one of the top 12 states in the US. Here is proof.

@tjcombo said in A little humour:

DUCK!

@tmd
How do you manage that? ( asking for a friend )

@tmd

How easy was it to get those descriptions off the nice hardwood floor?
Were they permanent or eraseable?

I just wanted to proclaim myself safe from Camp LeJeune unsafe drinking water.
You can all rest assured now, I'm fine.

@trumpetb said in Is there such a thing as a “natural player”?:

I have done many things in my life and in many of them I have been told I am a natural. Mostly that happens after many years of very hard work.

Let us assume they are right and I am a natural trumpet player.

I was not a natural trumpet player at first and for a very long time. It only took 8 hours a day of constant practice every single day for around 10 years to finally become a natural. That is only about 30,000 hours hard graft.

Louis Armstrong was also I believe called a natural, he practiced for 7 years.

More than likely he practiced for 12 hours a day as it was a passion with him. That is also around 30.000 hours of hard graft.

We both share 30,000 hours of hard graft Louis and I.

I have been called a natural in many other activities, rifle shooting, pistol shooting, golfing, archery, driving.

It is funny how I always became a natural after devoting many years of very hard work (that nobody noticed).

I think it takes a lot of unnaturally hard work before you can legitimately be a natural.

I find it insulting to be called a natural to be honest it ignores all of the immense effort that it takes and has been expended to be able to finally make everything appear to be totally effortless and natural.

So my answer is, No there are no naturals there are people who put in immense efforts to be become good enough for people to then think they are naturals

People will say that when they really like your stuff. It’s easier and still a nice thing to say, by the way, than, “you sure put in thousands of hours of hard work to achieve this level of competence”. I get it with my artwork, “such a talent” they say, “I can’t even draw a circle or a straight line”. Neither can I. That’s why they make compasses and straight edges. And yes, I am grateful to get nice compliments like that, and take it for what they intended it to be. But I have done it for over fifty years, honed the talent that I had to start with. Not just woke up one day at age 7 and started painting masterpieces. I still don’t think I paint masterpieces, or play them either, but that’s why I keep trying.

Can't for the life of me figure out why this USED Bach Mt Vernon 3c Mouthpiece hasn’t been snatched up yet. Free shipping, too. And notice you can get a 1 yr protection plan for only $59.99. We all know how a mouthpiece can cost lots for repairs and upkeep.

@dr-go said in A little humour:

@bigdub said in A little humour:

MORAL of the story is, don’t wait too long between cleanings.

...or don't eat a three layer hoagie and downing it with a pint of beer before going to bed at night!

Good to know. I'll make a note of that. Should I not play my trumpet right after such a snack, either?

Let me start by saying, this was an actual real dream I had. Fair warning, if you don’t want to go too far inside my subconscious, then stop reading this right now! Ok, you have been warned, so here goes:

In my dream, it starts rather realistically, I am cleaning my trumpet.
I get to the valves and there is quite a bit of scale and some kind of goopy sludge. Gradually, or maybe quickly, this ooze begins to morph into caterpillar like organisms, then more hair grows on them. I am not freaked out at all, since it all is seeming quite normal ( since it is a dream, after all ). Now I dispose of all but one of these organisms. This one is the cutest of them all. Now it has morphed into a meatball sized hedgehog like thing, but suddenly I am at a choir practice, letting several of the people hold and play with my little hedgehog like thing.
I had to take it back, but it was not done morphing. Now it’s getting bigger and bigger and now is the size of a Norwegian Coon cat. Seems, in fact, that it IS actually a Norwegian Coon cat. Reddish color. It ended with him following me around wherever I went, right Rusty?

MORAL of the story is, don’t wait too long between cleanings.