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Post by mokaneshu on Aug 10, 2009 22:30:51 GMT -8
Ryan Mason does some lovely tattoos. ryanmasontattoos.com/home.htmlHere's a James Jean Original Picture Soto Alex Pardee he also does a bunch of other kick ass stuff like this beauty
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Post by mokaneshu on Aug 4, 2009 19:51:59 GMT -8
I've also noticed that galleries which once would have given me that blank "what are you talking about" stare when I asked to be on the preview list now send me previews for shows I have no interest in whatsoever. Even galleries I've never bought a single painting from now send me multiple show reminders with links to the work. I've actually noticed this too. Sometimes in the past I felt like I had to pull teeth to get on certain galleries preview lists. I remember emailing one gallery and the resonse I got back felt like they were saying, "Really, I have to go through the trouble of putting your name on this list." as if they didn't really want to sell me anything anyways. The funny thing now, that exact same gallery puts me on a bunch of their lists that I never asked to be on. It's similar to what my company was doing when the recession started to hit, when times were good they figured people would naturally just come back on their own. But when times get lean, and things aren't selling, they reach out to anyone they have ever talked to in the past hoping that someone still has some money to spend. If anything it made me happy that the particular gallery that I was being snubbed by in the beginning is at least working more at being nice to their patrons. If the recession brings back customer service then I can't complain about that.
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Post by mokaneshu on May 3, 2009 10:42:34 GMT -8
This little piggy coughed all the way home.....
and died.
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Post by mokaneshu on Apr 2, 2009 0:06:28 GMT -8
142 and I like "Bathing with Broken Butterflies"
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Post by mokaneshu on Mar 15, 2009 13:33:04 GMT -8
i am curious however, what people think about the role of the gallery and/or artists in authenticating. I'm not sure what to think of the whole situation that happened there. But as far as what I think of galleries and artists role in authenticating work, I don't necessarily think they have to. It's their choice as to what services they wish to provide since it is their business/work. I know that most collectors would think to ask the artist or gallery first if they had any questions about authentication because who else would you turn to? I definitely don't think that the person who contacted Audrey did anything wrong. Any artist or gallery can choose to handle it they way that they want to. I think as a collector we would hope that the artists and galleries that we like enough to purchase from and display in our homes would be concerned with their works enough to answer these questions for us. But if it's a service that the artist or gallery does not provide because of the time it takes or the volume of work it may concern, then I feel that the artists and galleries should know how to handle these situations since it is likely to come up since there really is no other place for a collector to turn for these questions.
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Post by mokaneshu on Jan 30, 2009 0:23:01 GMT -8
well, going back like 10 years I just played sports, but that was high school so there wasn't too much I could get into that I could afford. maybe going out to parties and dancing too. I wish I continued pole vaulting into college but my school didn't have a mens track team (which I still don't understand since my school had about 35,000 students)
In college I got into music and spun records... mostly techno at first then I moved to hip hop, then to lounge music like dean martin, ect. That kind of dropped off after college. Also during college I got into video games, nothing competitive, I just spent a lot of time playing games, that seems to have died off too.
The reason I got into art was actually because when I bought my house I didn't want to decorate it with posters and thumbtacks. I wanted to "grow up" from the college decor.
Now, it seems my hobbies are collecting art, my job (even though I don't want it to be) and following one of the most struggling teams (struggling for the past 87,434 years now) in the NBA, but I've followed them for like 15 years so I'm used to it now.
luckily for me my work is a very eccentric team building company, so I spend a lot of time with people that just think of silly ideas to get people to do.
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Post by mokaneshu on Jan 17, 2009 11:15:45 GMT -8
I didn't get to see either of the last 2 galleries in person so it will be nice to have one roll through the bay area.
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Post by mokaneshu on Jan 7, 2009 22:47:32 GMT -8
As a dream piece, Michael Hussar's Morphine always comes to mind....
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Post by mokaneshu on Jan 7, 2009 22:33:54 GMT -8
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Post by mokaneshu on Dec 15, 2008 16:39:50 GMT -8
I was going to say Ron English as well. But I also think Michael Hussar belongs up there.
of course I feel like most people here know more artists than I do.
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Post by mokaneshu on Dec 10, 2008 0:47:37 GMT -8
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Post by mokaneshu on Nov 17, 2008 0:21:45 GMT -8
Chet Zar mokaneshu - I echo Charity's sentiment - those are nice frames. I like this one in particular for a piece I still need to get framed. I'm sure I'm not alone but I always seem to have a difficult time finding that "right" frame for a piece so I end up letting them sit until that perfect frame shows up. Most of the time its not locally but on somebody elses piece that I find it! Can you by chance ask the framer the moulding manufacturer name and item number for that frame? If its not too much of a bother... It would be greatly appreciated! jIm First off, I'm glad that other people appreciate the framing that I've picked out. It's such a hard thing for me to decide on so when other people like what I've picked, it makes me feel like the time I waited to find the right frame was well worth it. And I also agree that framing is a very difficult thing for most people to decide on, I have a growing list of things that need to get framed that will back me up on this too. But I can definately go by and ask the framer for that information for you. It might take me a little to get over there but I will definitely make a point to swing by there and ask them. I'd say that if I don't get back to you in a week and a half feel free to PM me because there's a good chance it just slipped my mind. -Zach
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Post by mokaneshu on Nov 15, 2008 12:18:42 GMT -8
The Gene Guynn Print and the Chet Zar sketch I had framed in San Francisco ( www.walteradamsframing.com/) I was just testing them out and they did a good job with them. I don't know if I'll go back again though, they were kind of pricey. and the owner of the shop didn't have very good advise on framing, everything they picked was not in a style I thought went well with the pictures. And everything I picked they said "oh I would never have suggested that". The first large ornate black frame came from here www.oilpaintingsframes.com I think it's under the high quality renaissance frames section. When the artist got it he gave me the option to keep it brass colored or paint it black. I'm very glad I decided on black. I'm not sure where the last frame came from, I bought that one already framed from the gallery.
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Post by mokaneshu on Nov 15, 2008 1:05:44 GMT -8
This is pretty much the last work I purchaced, I just picked it up last night. It's also my first commission that I've worked out so that was cool to have some say in things all the way down to the framing, which I almost think I may have gone too big and ornate on... almost.. Fusitive Arterion by Gene Guynn (Picture from the artist which is better than mine I think) Framed up some other new stuff I just got back from being framed Chet Zar A Gene Guynn Print Got this a while ago but just got around to taking pics
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Post by mokaneshu on Nov 8, 2008 20:08:51 GMT -8
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Post by mokaneshu on Oct 23, 2008 16:42:52 GMT -8
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Post by mokaneshu on Oct 12, 2008 12:17:44 GMT -8
First image I've seen of a Gene Guynn Comission I have. can't wait to see it with the frame.
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Post by mokaneshu on Oct 12, 2008 12:07:49 GMT -8
22!
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Post by mokaneshu on Sept 28, 2008 10:43:52 GMT -8
That's awesome Dok.
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Post by mokaneshu on Sept 24, 2008 7:22:14 GMT -8
Thank you Travis. I suppose I did come across as if I were comparing your piece to a print which it in no way is. It's a beautiful piece which is why I bought it in the first place.
I also apologize, I should have taken this conversation out of the public forum.
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Post by mokaneshu on Sept 23, 2008 18:53:29 GMT -8
First off you can't compare my cameras picture for some of the fine details in the piece since the flash can wash out color tones, ect... Honestly I'm not sure exactly how I feel about this still. At first I was pretty mad cause I felt that, yeah, it seems like it's 1 of 2. I'm not really mad about it anymore, but I am still dissapointed at the situation. I don't necessarily feel like I have a true original that won't be mistaken for another. The fact that people are looking as close as they are to find the small differences proves that point. This has nothing to do with the character being used again in a series and a family portrait style picture, because those pieces will look entirely different. I would even like that because it is kind of a character in a themed body of work. But these two still seem practically identical. I mean, I'm glad I bought a piece liked, but at the same time I almost do feel like why didn't I buy a print cause this wasn't a cheap piece for me. Had I known before I bought it that there was another out there that looked as similar as it does, I wouldn't have bought it for that price. I would have still liked it but I would have thought of it as more of a reproduction. I just wanted to take them out of circulation. Burning the pieces is like a cleansing ritual. I try not to show the same work in different venues, . . . I think it's a bad idea. I've only done it once. My painting "Pals", was shown at an art fair, . . . but the gallery placed the piece really high up on the wall, where no one could see the details, No one knew I even had a piece there. . .After the show closed, I sent it to Gary Pressman and he sold it immediately *sigh*
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Post by mokaneshu on Sept 21, 2008 22:07:55 GMT -8
I just got my first original and it is a beauty. I really love Travis Louie's art and was lucky enough to stumble across the Totoro Forest Project Charity Auction. They had what I considered an amazing piece of his work and I can't believe I got it. The only sad thing is I will not get to see it until it is done showing at the Museum of Cartoon Art. Here is the story of Uncle Wally of the Forest: bug-eater, writer of pebble-songs, and all around swell guy, . . . he spends most of the time in the forest protecting woodlands from pollution and corporate land acquisition. When angered he turns his victims into mushrooms. I'm extremely confused about this one.... I own this piece, it's on my wall, I'm looking at it right now. I bought it from Gallery 1988 in San Francisco at the Strangely Mannered show. This piece was even used in the flyer for that show artchival.proboards54.com/index.cgi?board=showsevents&action=display&thread=501Maybe Travis can shed some light on this cause I'm pretty confused as to what's going on with this.
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Post by mokaneshu on Sept 14, 2008 14:31:51 GMT -8
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Post by mokaneshu on Sept 7, 2008 12:05:38 GMT -8
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Post by mokaneshu on Sept 4, 2008 7:10:24 GMT -8
Zombie Girl From Mars
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