NEW ART PROJECTS GOIN ON?

started to look him up...
apparently there are two...

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/leyendecker_jc.html
http://www.americanartarchives.com/leyendeceker,jc.htm
http://www.americanartarchives.com/leyendeceker,fx.htm

Ive been trying my hand at scrimshaw on pieces of corian. I found a kitchen place that assembles countertops from all sorts of materials . They get corian in sheets and hav tons of scrap. So I took some and was figuring out what to do with it and came up with an idea. Im thinking of doing a table top (mad out of an old treadle sewing machine and using a scrimshaw corian top . Or else Ill find some other thing to do with the stuff.

I knew that louise Nevelson and Ben Sahn were collaborators on a mural in NY. (It was later removed for its socialistic content) Does anyone know what this mural looked like? ANND, in her collaborations with Diego Rivera,does anything remain?

Farmerman, where I can I see some of your work?
I´ve been scrolling through this thread and you seem like one very interesting fellow.

Ive read about how some pastel artists do their own prepared grounds by using pumice (dust I assume) mixed with gesso and color. Anyone have any experience with this technique?

What kind of boards are best used to make a surface?
Is there a need for sanding after the ground is spread on the board?
Any safety protocols ? (outside of a dust mask ?)

Ive lately made my own treated pastel surfaces. This I got from a few months of really screwing the mix up and from my above post getting me started.

Fmans Pastel Ground
Get some polishing pumice(its about 600) (I got mine from a mineral supply house at about 2.50 a lb-its pretty light)

Mix equal amount of the pumice with an acrylic gesso paste

Add about 2 T of water and mix it till it gets like smoot buttermilk.

SPread thinly on Bristol or clay board (roughen em up with some 200 grit sandpaper).

I make about 4 coats of thin mix with a light sanding between coats.

When done its a great ground for pastels.

I also add pigments to set up a base color for landscapes and still lifes.

Im sharing this because It was a problem solving thing that I wanted to get over. I think that prices of pastel boards are outrageous.


When I sand, I use and orbital sander with finer and finer grit pads until Im using about an 800 surfacer

Farmer, for my acrylic paintings I sometimes mix pumice (2/3) with soft gel (1/3 and cover a canvas with them. After they dry I cover the canvas with white gesso and perhaps with some color mixed in. I use "course pumice" (Golden brand) on some parts of the picture for special effect or fine pumice all over for a special coarser surface.

My mx is a bit toothier and is meant for pastels only. Ive used the pastel booards with the fine texture in it and I like it because its forces the work to be more bold and not like a pastel portrait that the "county fair" artists or those "Elvis on velvet" style of painting.

By mixing a little pigment in ith th grit you can get a pre colored ground also.

I have decided to submit a piece for a contest that I found at Deviant Art and thought it might be a good idea for anyone else interested (not necessarily to enter into the contest but as a good artistic excercise).

It's called Kick your own @ss (which I usually need) and it's about taking an old work that you have done and completely re-doing it. Not just finishing an old, unfinished piece or tweaking something on a completed picture; you have to start from scratch and use the same medium and the same elements. You can add somethings and even omit a couple, but it must obviously be the same idea and be comparable.

I have decided to redo an old illustration from the fairy tale 'Puss in Boots' that I made way back in school. Any other takers?

I hadda do this once for an illus class. I did a still life as a painting, then I redid it as a pen and ink, then a scratchboard, then an airbush.
I reacll that I had 5 versions of the damn thing. I never did lemons ever again I was so damn burnt out.

Good luck on the deviant art show. Id seen several of these in NY and Baltim ore. Some really edgy stuff

That ain't art effemm. It's poncing about with occupational therapy.

Read Thomas Mann sometime if you want to know what art is. What they sell in art shops are the most profitable lines that the bourgois can afford. Same as in soft furnishing department stores.

****, I got a mail pprompt that there was a "hit" on this thread, and guess what it is, Ole Sloshburton T. Firkenmouth hisself.

It has nothing to do with me what nicknames I am landed with when people are stumped.

Thats ok . When you deal with them folks, let me know and Ill stop calling you clueless.

I don't mind you calling me clueless. That's no novelty to me. The sergeant said I was a ******* useless, no good **** of the first ******* order of ******* magni*******tude.

That was his job.

Spendi, I suspect that, like Farmer, he said it for the pleasure of it.

Yeah--he was a sadist too. He made me peel potatoes all night once instead of going to the Saturday night dance at the NAFFI club with my mates.

They were great dances. What happened was that a senior NCO, the lowest form of life, went down to the nearest town, Swindon, it was about 15 miles away, and handed out free tickets to shop girls, typists and other specimens of the common floozie with which any town abounds, arranged a collection point and on the night bussed them into the club for free. The coaches were cheered as they pulled into the car park. Those female faces looking through the windows were my first intimations that things were not quite so straighforward as I had previously thought. Smooching with strange exotic creatures was an eye-opener for an innocent country boy as I then was.

It was great. My best mate had been in the American merchant navy and he had a fantastic wardrobe which he let me use. Did I look good or did I look good?

A fair number of people owe their very existence to that magnificent institution. I won't give its full title for reasons of delicacy. The first word was "The" and the third word was "run".

I will have about eight paintings showing throughout the month of August at a popular book store in my town. Dys did me the honor of coming to my last "hanging" as at this venue a couple of years ago.
And of course I have almost fifty paintings hanging--now for two or more years--in three floors of a campus building at my university. Anything to show work while avoiding dealers and galleries.

I'll get there if I can, JL, not just from general appreciation, but to see the group in place. We'll see.

Is anyone photographing all this? I would if I were there.
JL, I understand despair on all this, but is there no one at the university that will do a shoot? If not, that pisses me off.

Love a duck, get someone at the bookstore to take photos. Do I have to come over there and start osso yelling?

Further, do you have an email address I can temper my thoughts and recommendations to?