OT - Show Me Your Art

nolaegghead

I made a new friend this past weekend.  He lives near me and he's around 83.  But sharp as a tack, can't walk without a walker (Texas Ranger), but he's led a colorful life and an accomplished artist.  He wants to teach me some casting and help me build a furnace.  Of course I would have to do all the heavy lifting.  He stopped by and hung out at my shop on Sunday.

Anyway, google him - Al Sprague

took some pics of his stuff around his house

Ozzie_Isaac

@nolaegghead I would like to commission a 1/4 scale version of this bronze I saw this past week.

GrateEggspectations

@nolaegghead

So cool. Really neat to discover and share in someone else’s talents. Bet he is over the moon to share his passion with you. We have a neighbour who is well into his 80s and used to by paint. Almost all of his canvases are nudes of women. I told him I wanted to buy a canvas or two once he was ready to part with them. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Saw this at a small cafe I stopped in at.  They had a for sale sign on it, so I bought it.  Really dig the colors.

Corv

I've got this hanging in my office. The artist wouldn't sell it to me since it didn't have her signature. She didn't know where to put it. I suggested that she put it on the inside of the eyeglass stems, she did, and I got it.

Hardly ever use this particular zoom setting and hadn't realized there would be so much distortion. Huh.