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My all time favorite painting finally in styrene..

Copyright , .................. nah used to do my artwork for friends , no stores .
I guess taking down trees , working aloft on tel poles all day then havin a few beers after work , then crashin and havin to get up and do it all over again the next day didn't make for a good sit down at the drawing board and paint thing .
I was raised that if you didn't work you wouldn't have money to buy or do things .
Caught on to that real quick , was workin doin this or that since I was 12 .
Unlike my son who works but doesn't have the same drive .
I don't have a computer I use his old laptop , he's got some kind of mega cray set up in his room for gaming .
For fun him and his idjit friends use this laptop to send porn bombs to all their friends , and they send them back here , oh they think its a hoot .
And it's his old laptop so if it's crapped up with viruses and stuff ............. who cares .
The kid s got just about every electronic device on the planet , a little spoiled nowadays or what .
 
Cheyenne said:
Got all Frazettas works , was 20 yrs old when Death Dealer1 was painted in 73 . I copied it in pastel chalk on a 4x8 piece of sheet rock for a friend . Got a quarter lb of red for that one .
The hatchet cover was 1978 , was 28 yrs old then .
I also used to copy album covers on the back of jean jackets in oils , my fav was Steppenwolf live album cover with the wolf face , can't remember how many of those I did .
Used to make a lot of money doin those , can't remember why I stopped .........................
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That's funny, I made a ton painting jackets back in the day myself at $75-100 a pop, which was good money back then. I remember a crapload of Zep IV Hermits on a black background. A few years ago I dug out the acrylics to do a Maiden jacket for my son and was amazed to find how expensive a Levis Dungaree jacket became, I rememeber them for like $10, I think they were like $80 now. People stop him all the time to ask about it, including teachers.

I hear ya regarding kids. My sons were building and wielding airbrushes at 6 or so, drawing and painting, etc until they got iPhones. Now nothing. I had a busboy job as soon as I could get working papers and before that mowing lawns. My oldest is heading into engineering school in the fall and I bet his first work experience will be a $120K a year job after he graduates. Kids don't see the value or reason in a part time gig. He earns/designs things in video games that he sells online. I have no idea how it works, but he gets some real money to keep him going and it's nothing illegal so I can't really intervene.

I painted this Frazetta on my own jacket back in the day, it landed me a job in a specialty bakery that did portrait cakes (and the wedding cake for The Godfather).


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Really amazing work. Just to be able to paint like that is fantasy land for me. BTW Surfing, hotrods, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix was my era of music. Gary S. :eek:ldguy
 
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