Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines
The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => Off Topic => Topic started by: gbritnell on March 25, 2019, 07:27:48 am
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WOW ... Thanks for posting that video collection and history.
George, I'm dumbfounded and flabbergasted at the stunning quality of your art! Amazingly true to life work for certain and for sure!!!
Your astonishing attention to detail brings your art to life right before my eyes, and clearly the same is true with most anything you choose to turn your hands to ..... like machining model engineering projects such as we've been fortunate enough to get to see here as well!
Daniel summed it up very nicely George, I am also amazed at your skill level in what you set your mind to. I know you must have incredible patience & intellect to research and work out and then actually build/paint your projects. Thank for including us in on your fantastic projects....you give us all something to aspire to.
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WOW ... Thanks for posting that video collection and history.
George, I'm dumbfounded and flabbergasted at the stunning quality of your art! Amazingly true to life work for certain and for sure!!!
Your astonishing attention to detail brings your art to life right before my eyes, and clearly the same is true with most anything you choose to turn your hands to ..... like machining model engineering projects such as we've been fortunate enough to get to see here as well!
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Thought this would be appropriate here...
https://youtu.be/d7kYewtU5Ew?si=XoZVOvY6mhGajwgc
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Great realist work! I love fine art, photography shows are my favorite. You have a lot of talent friend. I should have figured by your machining skills you were artistic in other ares. Your posts are great. I really dig your videos.
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Thanks for sharing some of your artwork George.
These are wonderful!
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Stunning work George and very nice to see your many talents both with metal and pencils, these do have a pleasing photographic quality to them. I've always admired artists at work and it is interesting to read about your processes.
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Can I order a printed photo book of yours? It would be an easy way for you to publish.
My son and I would love to have a book to flip through.
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Hi Nick,
The only tractor I have ever done was an Ford 8N for a fellow.
gbritnell
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By the way, you have cars, motorcylces and steam traction engines, have you done any gas tractors by themselves, like the ones included with the Russell? Would love if you had one of a Farmall F-20 or a Regular ;)
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In my last posting of the traction engine pictures I only posted each picture once. I don't know why the Baker came up 3 times. Maybe the Moderators can look into it and delete the other two copies.
gbritnell
I've gotten rid of the extra Baker pictures, but they were nice enough to see 3 times ;)
I love the steam pictures, especially the Case and as Chris (CBWHO) pointed out, it's very impressive how well you do the reflections... especially the people in the fender on page 1 of the thread. 8)
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In my last posting of the traction engine pictures I only posted each picture once. I don't know why the Baker came up 3 times. Maybe the Moderators can look into it and delete the other two copies.
gbritnell
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Hi CBWho,
I have done several paintings of traction engines and one steam riverboat. The Baker and the Case are my own compositions and the Russell was done with permission from the fellow that took the picture. The riverboat was done after I had built a model of it.
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Hi Dennis,
They run between 16 x 13 and 17 x 20. The more complicated ones, like the ones with wire wheels and extreme reflections take anywhere from 35-50 hours to complete. I use reference pictures that I have taken at car shows etc. I start by composing the picture that I want, car position , background and so on then make a preliminary sketch. I then refine the sketch into a fairly detailed line drawing. If the drawing needs to be enlarged I take it to the local copy shop and have some prints made of several different sizes. I then transfer the copy onto my working paper and start the coloring process. I don't start with any particular area, sometimes the car and sometimes the background. It just depends how the picture is composed.
gbritnell
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WOW.
Only one question ?
How big are they .
Cheers
Dennis
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Wow amazing! I am amazed how you can draw reflective surfaces.
If I can be so bold: Any steam related pictures? I think it would be so cool to see one our collectible steam engines/TEs/SRs in a full size setting.
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George, Your art work is just amazing.
You are a man of great and diversified talents!
Gil
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George, truly profi work. Any of these for sale somewhere somehow?
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Beautiful work, what an amazing skillset (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji7.png)
Thanks for sharing !!!
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Amazing work 8) before reading your entire post and opening the thumbnails, I thought they were actual photographs
As Nick said.....
I'm reading/viewing this on my lunch break to give it the proper attention this deserves , you are a man of exceptional skills & not just one...but several, thank you for sharing all this with us, you have expanded my horizon.
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After the military I attempted to return to the art field but too many of the art businesses wanted to start me off at the bottom due to my 2 year absence from the field.
They should have hired you....
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You definitely have a special gift - your artwork is wonderful! My favorite is the Whizzer - reminds me of my first "motorcycle" wreck! :)
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Wow, those are beautiful...I can imagine the owner of any of those cars would want their own "portrait"...very nicely done.
Rog
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STUNNING !!!
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I like your artwork very much and wish I could do 1/100's as good.
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Amazing work 8) before reading your entire post and opening the thumbnails, I thought they were actual photographs
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Outstanding. I would like to have several of these to grace my walls...even a print.
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And 3 more.
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Several more.
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Gentlemen,
I know that some of you have seen some of these on one of the other forums but I figured the new members on this one might like to see some of my other adventures. I have been gifted in some of my abilities and enjoy sharing them with others.
From a very early age I started drawing and painting. The high school I attended only started art classes in my junior and senior years so I took them. This led the way to art school after graduation. I only attended that school for a little over a year due to financial issues but worked in the commercial art field for awhile before being drafted into the Army during the Viet Nam conflict.
After the military I attempted to return to the art field but too many of the art businesses wanted to start me off at the bottom due to my 2 year absence from the field. It was at this point that my career took a turn and I started the apprenticeship for metal patternmaking. That led me into the model making hobby.
Now a little bit about my art. Even though for many years I worked out of the field of art I never got away from it and always drew and painted. In the lated 90's while perusing the art world on the Internet I came across a lady who worked in colored pencils. I had never worked in this medium and was intrigued by what she did. I purchased one of her books and subsequently the materials she used for her work. Although she was mainly a portrait artist, and I wasn't, I studied her techniques and started working with the pencils.
I have been doing this genre for some time now and have advanced greatly. Although still not up to the level of some of the wonderful artists in this field I enjoy it and really enjoy sharing it with others.
So without further ado I will present some of my artwork, now and in the future. These first posting will be of my favorite subjects, mechanics, namely automobiles. Along with colored pencil there are some airbrush and water color presentations.
gbritnell