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Topic - The Screw Artist, Andrew Myers - Club100
Author - @serap
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Hello Art Lovers, I will tell you about the extraordinary art of screw art and its creator, the screw artist. The artist of this fascinating art is Andrew Myers, who lives in Laguna Beach, California. Creating 3D sculptures from screws is an amazing idea! I will talk about how this idea emerged and how is its story :)
At first Myers' goal was to sculpt from screws. However, the artist, who said that he failed in this aim, says that he decided to paint the screws. After this decision, we can say that a new art is born out of failure.
I admire people who don't give up and turn negatives into positives :) Myers is definitely one of those inspiring people. In the photo below, you see a photograph of Myers with one of his works. I also added the first and the last version of the work. So that you can see the process of art.
Myers first invented the screw art using bolts and oil paint in 2007. Screws and such materials are not commonly seen as art materials. Therefore, this art is quite interesting. These works look like the back view of the relief art.
Myers's 3D Porsche work was made of screws of various depths. You can watch the video of this and many other works on the artist's Instagram profile. It is not easy to see 3D in photos, but we can see all the details in videos. Approximately 8,000 screws are used in this work, each of which is hand-painted.
Myers says it takes an average of 3 months to produce a work. He uses between 5 and 20,000 screws in his works. The artist also has very successfully designed clothing works. I love the naturalness of the fabric texture of the shirt. The artist named the jacketed outfit "Midnight in August". This artifact is also made of more than 7,000 screws. Hand painted on all screws.
According to Myers, an artist not only creates a work, but also he thinks that the artist must have something to say. Myers loves to have something to say about his art. The artist has designed this work for a client for Valentine's Day :)
The artist made this work in 2018. The artist named this work “Fading thoughts”. The artist said that in this work, he describes his feelings in 2018 (Left one). The artist used automotive paint as paint in his boxing glove work. He also used leather straps other than screws. The creases of the glove look very realistic.
He named his work, which is a teddy bear and a pig, "It's been a rough year, Pinky". In this work he made in 2022, he said that the photographs did not reflect the works well enough. Myers said that the video could show the work better, but not as effectively as seeing it in reality.
When you visit his profile you will see that the videos show the works better. Read More
Topic - Abstracting Old Figurative Paintings
Author - @ronthroop
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Spring cleaning is underway in the winter studio of the basement painter. April is a good time for the chore. The mind is ready to de-clutter, empty its winter piles of garbage. Usually I just organize canvases on shelves, stack paper paintings in boxes, arrange paints and brushes on the art cart, throw away stiff, painted rags strewn about the chair, and pick up the many repurposed raw meat Styrofoam® palettes to add to the Texas-sized plastic trash vortex churning in the hot open sea.
But I’ve been uncommonly surly these last few days, to the world and to myself. Drunk with displeasure, getting into arguments with songbirds, feeling all nasty and low-down and ready to pop. I fingered through a batch of old 11 x 14’s, took four off the shelf, stacked them two-on-top-of-two at the easel, and let them have it with whatever ails me.
Abstracting the lot. It hasn’t helped yet, and I’ll do it again today.
Meanwhile, for those who buy paintings to match colors in a room... Have I got a new Throop line for you. I call it “Flippin’ Off Sparrows—The Temporary Insanity of Spring Fever Read More
Topic - Finding Contentment: Music as a Way to Change and Improve Moods
Author - @denmarkguy
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Back when I was at University — and my friends seemed to be busy getting drunk and baked every weekend — I was periodically asked whether I just didn't have any "vices." I suppose this was prompted by the fact that I did not have any interest in the alcohol and drug parties that seemed to be part and parcel of the landscape around me.
Anyway, it was at around this time that I first coined the phrase ”music is my mind altering drug of choice.”
I suppose a lot of people would argue that music is important to them, but I have a feeling the degree of importance varies a great deal from one person to the other. Personally, I simply can't imagine a life without some kind of soundtrack playing.
What's interesting for me to consider just how much music can influence my moods, as well as my productivity.
One of the things I didn't like about working in the IT industry many years ago what's the fact that we were not allowed to listen to music while we were working, even if we were doing so through headphones plugged into our computers. The official argument was that we needed to be able to hear the phones… which seemed like a fairly lame excuse since 95% of the communication within the company took place via the intracompany computer messaging service!
Over the years, I've built up a variety of playlists and YouTube, each more or less designed to support a particular purpose or activity. Some are for doing serious work, some are to accompany my writing, some are too help me relax, some are for meditation and even sleep... but I have noticed — as of late — that the music I'm listening to the most is the kind that sends me into a reflective mood and often on a trip down memory lane as I recall pieces of my past that are somehow brought to the forefront by a particular music sequence.
I heard it said once that our aural memories are some of the strongest… if a particular piece of music was playing during some event that left a strong impression on you, you can almost relive it by turning on that piece of music.
Interestingly enough, most of what I listen to that also triggers old memories is actually pretty new music that was made long after the original memory came into existence. How exactly that works I'm not sure, but it works. I'm going to guess that tonal quality and "sound" is more important than a specific tune/song. Read More
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