Art...

Stuart X.Hunter · Post by **Stuart X.Hunter** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:44 pm

Is this your own, Mark?

It instantly reminded me of a building in Norway I think...I'll see if i can find a picture/link...ahh it's the Oslo opera house, designed in conjunction with skateboarders.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/311 ... a02f59.jpg

Post by **MODLAB** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:11 pm

Yes it would be one of mine. Thank you for noticing the architecture part.
Most do not know I studied architecture before becoming a Designer.

M

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:26 pm

how can i upload my art on here please?

Post by **MODLAB** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:43 pm

HI solarflarez,

just attach your work. next to options it says upload attachment.

M

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:10 pm

: skunk drawing; skunk drawing.jpg (98.32 KiB) Viewed 14483 times

thanks mod, hope this works, i also have paintings if anyone wants to see any more of my work? this was just a doodle done under the influence of some fine skunk!!

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:12 pm

oh and heres a syd barrett watercolour, thinking of doing a jason painting, do you think its worth a try?

Post by **MODLAB** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:40 pm

i like the barrett watercolour. never was a huge fan of cartoon psychedelia stuff.

sure why not.

M

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:33 pm

i feel embarressed putting any more work up now, you are obviously a very good artist, i, on the other hand...... finished school at 15, no art training at all, but glad you liked the syd thing, peace n out

Post by **MODLAB** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:44 pm

You should never feel embarrassed solarflarez. I have been put into corners and trampled upon
a few times myself.

Keep making art and put it up here. Honesty about ones art makes it 90% of the time stronger.

Best,

M

purespace · Post by **purespace** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:22 am

solarflarez, thank you for sharing, your work is brilliant

I dig this. keep it up. you're instincts will never fail you

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:19 pm

thank you purespace, and thank you mod, heres another drawing, pen and ink, just a doodle really , but i do have more portaits ive done too, (hendrix, lennon etc etc) and some poster ideas i have done (some inspired by the elevators, spz etc) if anyone wants to see?

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:26 pm

heres my elevators/spz inspired piece, not a great pic, but couldn't scan it as it is an A2 size sketchbook. pen and ink, nearly went blind doing it!!!!

Luminescence · Post by **Luminescence** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:37 pm

solarflarez wrote:thank you purespace, and thank you mod, heres another drawing, pen and ink, just a doodle really , but i do have more portaits ive done too, (hendrix, lennon etc etc) and some poster ideas i have done (some inspired by the elevators, spz etc) if anyone wants to see?

Really like your art solarflarez. Nice one.

ro · Post by ro » Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:56 pm

"Look here, junior, don't you be so happy,
And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad."

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:14 am

my version of WHAAM! acrylic on canvas (1000mm x 800mm)

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:18 am

lsd lennon , acrylic on canvas (400mm x 300m)

Post by **MODLAB** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:19 am

nice one flarez.

M

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:27 am

thanks Mod, i know they are copies, but thats what people want, and its a good test for me, heres some of my own ideas.............

MODLAB wrote:nice one flarez.

M

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:28 am

unfinished sketch

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:50 pm

can anyone help? i have pics i want to post on here but the files are too large, does anyone know how to "shrink" the files or make them smaller please?

toomilk · Post by **toomilk** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:02 am

If you have a mac, I find the easiest thing to do is download and use the Image Shackle widget: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboar ... ackle.html

It's fast and easy to use.

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:48 am

thanks for the tip friend, but i have a pc

toomilk wrote:If you have a mac, I find the easiest thing to do is download and use the Image Shackle widget: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboar ... ackle.html

It's fast and easy to use.

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:10 pm

a collage i did a few years ago, hope no one is offended by anything in it

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:11 pm

collage (part 2)

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:37 pm

just finished this, paint still wet! acrylic on canvas (500 x 400mm)

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:07 pm

is anyone else gonna put there art up??!!

Post by **MODLAB** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:20 pm

nice graphic art solar.

when i have time i will get some. you can see things on my blog for now.

www.modularlab.com/blog

M

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:59 pm

thanks for the link mod, your work is excellent. excuse my ignorance, but are you german?

MODLAB wrote:nice graphic art solar.

when i have time i will get some. you can see things on my blog for now.

http://www.modularlab.com/blog

M

Post by **MODLAB** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:08 pm

thank you! nope just part of the commonwealth(canadian) wife is deutsch.

M

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:31 pm

poster idea i did for a friend in here (pen and ink)

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:47 pm

Syd Barrett, acrylic on canvas, (500 x 400mm) colours inspired by his floorboards! same style as the Spaceman painting i did, so looks better from a distance

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:29 pm

is wrote:That's pretty nifty. Just out of interest - don't tell me if it's a secret: how did you do it?

cheers mate, i just manipulated the image on my pc, printed it out. gridded up the canvas then drew it freehand then got a headache painting the dots!

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:51 pm

Skull painting, grey and black, acrylic on canvas ( 700 x 500mm ) best viewed from a distance, the further away, the better the effect!

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:53 pm

smaller version

Alice Im Hungerland · Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:49 am

solarflarez wrote:Syd Barrett, acrylic on canvas, (500 x 400mm) colours inspired by his floorboards! same style as the Spaceman painting i did, so looks better from a distance

it's almost silly how much i want that.

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:39 pm

Shamless self promotion here, but at last ive realised my ambition of my own exibition, its only in my home town library, but its for a month, im getting positive comments and...well ive done it, the newspaper didnt picture my best work but...hey, they did mention my astronaut painting!!!! ( J Spaceman!)

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:25 pm

Well done Solarflarez. Have a few friends who are artists and I know how difficult it can be to get an exhibition set up. In fact, I'm off to a private view tonight of a friend of a friend. Keep hammering away mate.

Post by **MODLAB** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:40 pm

Well done Mr. Watson. Good luck with it. Try to keep on going start experimenting. Take it further I know you can.

All the best,

Mark

Post by **runcible** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:11 pm

That's great - well pleased for you!

Already There · Post by **Already There** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 10:25 pm

solarflarez wrote:Shamless self promotion here, but at last ive realised my ambition of my own exibition, its only in my home town library, but its for a month, im getting positive comments and...well ive done it, the newspaper didnt picture my best work but...hey, they did mention my astronaut painting!!!! ( J Spaceman!)

Yeah, I love that Spaceman painting. <3

Congrats.

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:51 am

thank you people for the positive comments, i appreciate them all, so thank you. Mod, I know the work pictured is a bit unoriginal and uninspiring, but because of the restrictions of showing at my local library (no nudity, nothing offensive etc), I couldn't really show what I regard as my best stuff, but im not grumbling and yes you are right, I need to start experimenting with paint anyway,
thanks all again, Eric

Stuart X.Hunter · Post by **Stuart X.Hunter** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:07 am

Congratulations Solar,

I was fortunate enought to get my work exhibited a few times and whilst it didn't really "pay" off it ticked a box.

My favourite piece so far (that you've displayed on here) is the collage. It harks back to Rauschenburg and as a medium deals with the torrent of imagery that people have to deal with.
I'd love to see an updated one referencing the last 10years or so.

I'll try look out my own bits n bobs when I get a chance; I used a mixed palette of collage and hand written text on some. I was also very "into" life drawing but drew the body from the skeletal/muscular form out to the flesh. The majority of it was made art (either from found objects) or what people concieve now as installation art. I used computer manipulated images, recorded sound and video as well as point & shoot pictures relating to my own poetry/words.

Yes, I'll look them out...If anything it'l be a wander through a past.

Best and keep on pushing

Best

Stuart

Already There · Post by **Already There** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:11 pm

solarflarez wrote:Syd Barrett, acrylic on canvas, (500 x 400mm) colours inspired by his floorboards! same style as the Spaceman painting i did, so looks better from a distance

I love the floorboards. ^^

Stuart X.Hunter · Post by **Stuart X.Hunter** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:36 am

Firstly, this isn't mine.

I doubt i'd ever be able to capture "emotion" like this in a photograph.

Pripyat Pentaptych

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Original Image by Keith Adams, February 2006

Already There · Post by **Already There** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:11 am

Yeah, I like it. I like how the damaged windows look out at the rest of the scenery. It's also like... perception in general, you know?

Guessed · Post by **Guessed** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:44 am

Already There wrote:Yeah, I like it. I like how the damaged windows look out at the rest of the scenery. It's also like... perception in general, you know?

Good, I'm glad you like it.

Pripyat was the town created to house the workers who built/then maintained the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant.
Now it is estimated that ~60 people still reside there but a couple of days after the "accident" some 30,000 people were evacuated.
I'm trying at present to put together some music that echoes and evokes this image.
The "mix-tape" will eventually be dumped at another wasteground http://journeysthroughmusic.blogspot.com/

B,
S.

Laz69 · Post by **Laz69** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:22 am

Stuart, check out the following links and the subsequent links within. I find this abandoned cities/buildings things really quite wonderful and intriguing. Spent months finding different places online that people had captured on camera. There is a few really creepy ones of an abandoned theme park (in Japan i think) and some of eastern european kid's swing parks that have been left to go wild... I particularly like the abandoned hospitals and asylums... think its probably the horrors that have been absorbed into the walls of these places... its almost like the walls and structures themselves still project them out for the viewer's eye.

link1

link2

link3

Loads of this stuff around online... you can find quite a few pics from the Chernobyl area amongst them.

Post by **MODLAB** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:28 am

I will add to Laz's

feed://feeds.feedburner.com/Wwwtokyotimesorg

this guy has some amazing photos of abandoned places. All in Japan.

M

Guessed · Post by **Guessed** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:04 am

Many thankX for the links; I'm putting some borrowed/manipulated images together to form a series. Creative Juices an all that.

My works laptop wont let me access those links currently but i'll have a look tonight.

What did you do? I did nothing.

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Original images by Juliet Butler & Gyori Antoine

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:06 am

stencil

Post by **MODLAB** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:25 am

Teaching the kids to deface property already.

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:23 pm

photograph i took

Guessed · Post by **Guessed** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:55 am

That reminds me of fifth/sixth year art class! Our teacher used to have tons of animal skulls around the class room. Pretty macabre thinking back now.

B,
S.

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:15 pm

stencils

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:07 am

another stencil

toomilk · Post by **toomilk** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:25 pm

Love the stencils. The thing to look out for it covering over other peoples' work. It can be dangerous...especially if you're covering up gang work. I studied graffiti for a while at a university and covering other people's work with question marks can be life threatening. Although I love the concept and execution, you need to be careful!

angelsighs · Post by **angelsighs** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:23 pm

Laz69 wrote:Stuart, check out the following links and the subsequent links within. I find this abandoned cities/buildings things really quite wonderful and intriguing. Spent months finding different places online that people had captured on camera. There is a few really creepy ones of an abandoned theme park (in Japan i think) and some of eastern european kid's swing parks that have been left to go wild... I particularly like the abandoned hospitals and asylums... think its probably the horrors that have been absorbed into the walls of these places... its almost like the walls and structures themselves still project them out for the viewer's eye.

thanks a lot for the links... I've always found abandoned/decrepit public places tremendously evocative.. especially theme parks, or seaside towns.. something about a fibreglass model getting all peeled and faded...

Guessed · Post by **Guessed** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:26 am

Guessed wrote:
I'm trying at present to put together some music that echoes and evokes this image.
The "mix-tape" will eventually be dumped at another wasteground http://journeysthroughmusic.blogspot.com/

B,
S.

Well, I've managed to make a video (just a still image and some audio) of this. It's viewable at the address above.
Credits are at the end if you are keen on the audio.

B,
S.

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:40 am

was messing around with a sharpie............

: sharpie sketch 1.jpg (44.25 KiB) Viewed 14084 times

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 5:37 pm

bit obsessed with doing stencils at the moment...............trail and error working out what to cut out and what has to be left

Post by **MODLAB** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 5:40 pm

How did your little showing go? Did you end up selling any?

Keep it up solar. You will only get better.

Mark

solarflarez · Post by **solarflarez** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 5:59 pm

It was good thanks Mark, I live in a town that has a notorious reputation for being uncultured and full of philistines, but i did sell a couple of paintings and the comment book provided by the library for people to write in had a lot of really positive comments , i was shocked by this but very happy , so all in all, good!
Cheers Mark, take it easy ,
Eric

Post by **BzaInSpace** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:10 pm

Solarflarez - I really dig the eye-in-the-pyramid stencils - good stuff!

Post by **MODLAB** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:45 pm

Was looking on an old cd of stuff. Came upon this flyer I did around 97.

Shinesalight · Post by **Shinesalight** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:23 pm

I like it, but what is its a flyer for exactly Mark? Thought I could make out text in it but now I'm not so sure.