Enlistee's art gallery!

[Unknown Primate]

Playing "catch-up" since my computer's been down for a month.  Fantastic artwork, EVERYONE!  Everything's awesome & inspiring!

[Sean]

Thanks Sean!  I hope to do a pop art block print of the more famous Topstone masks next.  I'm also thinking about doing a Jaymar puzzle box type painting.

Dang!  THAT is going to be terrific!

[Sean]

Well, I've worked on this project off and on since last winter.  I took the left over material that my students use to do block printing and cut miniature plates of the more popular Topstone masks.  So I ended up with 16 images.  I printed each on a 4"x4" sheet of paper and then mounted them on a 20"x20" black background.  I think of it as Pop Art Topstones.  Let me say some of the mask images were a challenge to carve. I love the iconic drawing of the Topstones and tried to stay faithful to the original images.  If anyone would be interested in a very limited edition of this print I would be glad to pull some more.  I'll put up a thread in Monsters for Sale.

Simply awesome.

[Sean]

this is what i have been working on, hope you all like

Artman, that is great.  Aside from the main subject of the image, I like how you capture the sky and the trees against the moonlight.

[Sean]

My latest, 16"x20" oil on canvas board. It's for sale in the classifieds.

Thanks,
Mike

Mike, you've accomplished what should be impossible.... you have Vincent looking sinister in his own shadows within a bright Rockwellian, 50's mag ad.  Beautiful!

[Illoman]

Wow, thanks Sean I appreciate that!

MIke

[Sean]

Wow, thanks Sean I appreciate that!

MIke

Mike, it's cheery and dark in the same snapshot look.... AMAZING.  This is something Morticia and Gomez Addams would have hanging in their great room.

[Sean]

Nice job on the pop art Topstones---they look great!

I keep coming back to look at these images made from block printing plates that Rick carved himself, and I'm flabbergasted.  HOW do you do it?!!?  Super talent, bro.  And you accomplished what you wanted to-----you did stay true to the Topstones with these images.

I'm floored just taking it all in----the process by which you developed the plates and the product they rendered.  Amazing.

[RICKH]

Thanks Sean!  Like I said, I've worked on the carving off and on since about March and finished it a couple of weeks ago. The material that I used is called Softkut and is similar to a plastic or vinyl eraser.  It is not the best material for fine detail, but I had a lot of left over pieces that I wanted to use up.  I love those images that I used to see in the back of FM and wanted to recreate them in  print that I could hang on my wall.  I did a similar pop art piece a few years ago, but the image was of the Shadow.  Thanks again for your kind words.

[ARTMAN666]

thank you for the kind words.

[The Drunken Severed Head]

...in choice of subjects for portraiture! But Frank's technique, style, and ability to capture a likeness both realistically and humorously are second to no one.

Okay, so this'll seem egotistical of me, but I am SO SO SO proud of it I can't help but show it off:



I commissioned Frank to draw me for the Famous Monsters website, where I'm now contributing. I got a far better portrait than I could have imagined. See a brief interview with Frank HERE:

http://www.famousmonstersoffilmland.com/the-monstrous-art-of-frank-dietz/

Thanks, Frank!

[Illoman]

...in choice of subjects for portraiture! But Frank's technique, style, and ability to capture a likeness both realistically and humorously are second to no one.

Okay, so this'll seem egotistical of me, but I am SO SO SO proud of it I can't help but show it off:



I commissioned Frank to draw me for the Famous Monsters website, where I'm now contributing. I got a far better portrait than I could have imagined. See a brief interview with Frank HERE:

http://www.famousmonstersoffilmland.com/the-monstrous-art-of-frank-dietz/

Totally awesome, Max!!! Frank did an incredible job!!!

Mike

Thanks, Frank!

[Scatter]

...in choice of subjects for portraiture! But Frank's technique, style, and ability to capture a likeness both realistically and humorously are second to no one.

Okay, so this'll seem egotistical of me, but I am SO SO SO proud of it I can't help but show it off:



I commissioned Frank to draw me for the Famous Monsters website, where I'm now contributing. I got a far better portrait than I could have imagined. See a brief interview with Frank HERE:

http://www.famousmonstersoffilmland.com/the-monstrous-art-of-frank-dietz/

Thanks, Frank!

WOW!! That's awesome!! Congrats Max on such a great and unique piece!!

[typhooforme]

Kudos on top of kudos, Max AND Frank!

[michblk]

Oh my, Frank, that has to be the ugliest and scariest thing I have ever seen.  It's hideous....   

BK