Mike Lamb Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Here are a few random images from this year's inventory. Click to Enlarge 22.04 KB Click to Enlarge 98.44 KB Click to Enlarge 147 KB Click to Enlarge 93.37 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 If the painting those two are looking at in the first photo is making some hack a lot of money I'm gonna hafta become an artteest. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 If the painting those two are looking at in the first photo is making some hack a lot of money I'm gonna hafta become an artteest. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike You don't see it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Oh, ssssuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrre I see it. Where do i buy one of those berets with the little thing sticking up out of the center of it. Is the cigarette holder mandatory and must I walk around unshaved in paint-spattered tatters and smell like an eastern European that's never heard of deodorant? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 I used to do a little painting, but now I'm focusing more on 3 dimentional art. Click to Enlarge 29.59 KB This piece is for sale. My next project is going to be a wall mural of the last supper, in a drywall knockdown texture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lamb Posted December 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 To make good abstract art you have to be either very good or very lucky and most abstract artists are neither. Gary, that belongs in a museum. This is a painting I did on a scrap of laminated particle board. 10" x 14". It's from a National Geographic photo. Click to Enlarge 51.6?KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADAIR Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 thanx for the entertainment Click to Enlarge 44.08?KB HNY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 softball shadow is more better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Softball shadow for sure. I also like the Leo Burnett and peeling paint, but the softball shadow is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Kurt, Have you returned to China's 35th provice or are you still over there? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lamb Posted January 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Thanks all. The shadow is of my daughter on first base. The shadow was more intriguing than the base runner so I cloned her out of the pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Kurt, Have you returned to China's 35th provice or are you still over there? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Yes, still here (there). Went west to the mountains and visited the Enshi/Hubei Grand Canyon. Oh. My. God. You know that iconic picture of Yosemite Valley, with the two vertical cliff faces and heart melting beauty? The Enshi Grand Canyon has about 200 or more miles of that valley with countless cliff faces that are much bigger. Instead of traffic jams, SUV's and RV's with portable generators, and silly people in smokey the bear hats telling you to stop doing things that are fun, there are indigenous farmers with an approximately 1000 year history tilling the soil in terraced fields at high elevation. Upon seeing you, they offer tea. Hiking at elevation, one thinks they are away from it all, and you round a corner and come upon a local selling roasted yams, corn, these great little potatoes fried in sunflower oil, covered in hot pepper sauce, and hot water in thermos bottles. Every component of the snack was grown on their farm, including the oil (the farms all have their own little oil presses). They spend about 3 hours, twice a day, hauling all the stuff up there and hauling it all back down. 2 yuan for more than you can eat; that's about 30 cents. I try to press several more yuan notes into their hand, they won't accept them....it's impolite. Occasionally, one comes upon a stone "shack" where someone lives; they never come down out of the mountain. Spent about 13 hours on a "hard bed train" getting there, another 13 getting back. High speed trains don't run everywhere one wants to go, so hard bed trains are how "common people" get from one place to another. Each car has 11 bays, 6 bunks to a bay, 3 per side. It's all kind of humorous and fun until it's time to go to sleep, then one is greeted with the sights and sounds of everyone bunking down....I'll spare the visual details. One prays that they didn't get a snorer (or worse) in their bay. My prayers worked on the way to the mountain, not on the way back, but thankfully it was only a couple hours until we made our station and could get to civilization. Did a business meeting with the thermostat yesterday; discovered upon arrival I was giving a "speech" to several investors and the assembled development team, about 20 people. I was the guy telling folks "what it's like in America" and why I think the product is the right one at the right time. I'd speak, the interpreter would translate, then I'd speak again. It was kind of wild. Afterward, it was the big dinner at a fancy local restaurant (Mao's Family Restaurant, I'm not kidding, Chinese understand marketing too), and the usual 2 hours of toasting and pleasantry. I don't have any money in this game, just my time which has so far been 100% fun, pleasant, and I get to be a celebrity for a couple hours every once and a while. I will never be rich, but so far, I'm having a good time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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