Artwork by NWFA members

[Vendor Hidden]

This is a bit different for this forum, I know, but I'm sure I'm not the only artistic (that's "art" not "aut") member here. So this thread can be a showcase for your artwork.

If you made it yourself (painting, drawing, sculpture, digital, wood carving, glassblowing, etc.) then post it here. NOTE: I'd like to keep this thread free of AI-generated art, that's a big thing right now, but here I'd like to focus on human-made art.

I'll start the ball rolling with an actual watercolor I did a few years ago. It's of a rock formation I saw in Cabo San Lucas.

Fortress Rock (watercolor, 6" x 9.5")



I'll post some of my other work here periodically, but I'd like to see stuff by others as well.

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[Ruger Rich]

How about photography, non-photoshop type?

 

[CamoDeafie]

White ink on acrylic background

Black fineliners

White colored pencil on black paper


Close up stipple ink on white Bristol board
White ink on black



White charcoal on black

White ink on black

White pencil on black

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Cool thread....made into a "Sticky".....
Andy

 

[Vendor Hidden]

How about photography, non-photoshop type?

Yep. Photography is included. I use Photoshop to adjust contrast, exposure and such on shots I've taken, so I don't have a problem with that. If you took the shot, this is the place to post it.

 

[sobo]

The Pont du Gard, near Vers-Pont-du-Gard, southern France...

Took the photo while visiting there in 1999
(Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F 35mm SLR)...



So I could draw it, around 2001 or so...
(pencil sketch on heavy stock)



As a civil engineer, Roman architecture, and specifically Roman aqueducts, fascinate me...

 

[albin25]

1. Old barn,hawk color pencil
2. Star of India watercolor
3. my '49 Jaguar watercolor
4. a friend's trimaran on the Snake watercolor
5. early AM Chief Timothy dock watercolor

all were then scanned and sharpened for detail,

 

[sobo]

1. Old barn,hawk color pencil
2. Star of India watercolor
3. my '49 Jaguar watercolor
4. a friend's trimaran on the Snake watercolor
5. early AM Chief Timothy dock watercolor

all were then scanned and sharpened for detail,

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That's some hella good water color work!

 

[Vendor Hidden]

Here is a graphite drawing I did of Hudson, my Porcupine Mastiff (it's not exactly AKC recognized, but he's had 13 porcupine encounters so far, so that's what I call him).

Hudson Drools (graphite, 8x10)

 

[Hueco]

Yep. Photography is included. I use Photoshop to adjust contrast, exposure and such on shots I've taken, so I don't have a problem with that. If you took the shot, this is the place to post it.

Have used PS immensely to a ton of manipulation. Most of it I could do in Darkroom too though, so…

But this photo: no photoshop and very little post pro:


Specs:


Funny dumb moment: I left my remote shutter release at home accidentally, but really wanted this shot…so held down the shutter release for all 707 seconds…couldn't feel my finger for a bit afterwards.

 

[Vendor Hidden]

Have used PS immensely to a ton of manipulation. Most of it I could do in Darkroom too though, so…

But this photo: no photoshop and very little post pro:

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Specs:
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Funny dumb moment: I left my remote shutter release at home accidentally, but really wanted this shot…so held down the shutter release for all 707 seconds…couldn't feel my finger for a bit afterwards.

Excellent shot!

Long exposures can be tricky. I've tried a few times to shoot a lightning storm, but the durn lightning always seemed to wait until the shutter was closed.

 

[Vendor Hidden]

Here's a graphite drawing I did a looooong time ago. Really screwed up the ear, but everything else came out well.

Boudiccea (graphite 14x20)



Also, here's one of the ads I'm running for my services, and a link to my site if you're interested.

 

[Caveman Jim]

This all I got, I flunked art class in the 60's.

 

[Hueco]

This all I got, I flunked art class in the 60's.

Hard to draw on LSD?

 

[elsie]

Hard to draw on LSD?

Nope. Really easy to draw...

Figuring out what it is afterward is a chore though.


elsie

 

[Caveman Jim]

Hard to draw on LSD?

Hell no, in 6th grade I was bored and just wanted to be out in the woods Killin bubblegum.
I was a hunter not an artiste.

 

[Vendor Hidden]

Portrait commission: Dreamer & Izzy.
Dreamer is an older dog, and Izzy is the new young pup. You can see the mischief in her eyes. I was given two different photos, one of each dog. I sketched the dogs together and went from there. Spent the longest time on those darn sheet folds (painting fabric is hard!).

Dreamer and Izzy (digital, 16x16)

 

[Stomper]

Ink blotter…. I call this one, "sit and spin".

 

[Vendor Hidden]

Been going through my old vacation photos and finding lots of inspiration for art.

Between commissions, I'm working on a series of paintings from our vacation in the Arches National Park area in and around Moab, Utah. I hate naming paintings so instead of "Purple Majesty" or similar tripe, I'm simply naming them "Arches" along with the particular photo I used as a reference.

This is the first one (finished it Monday).

Arches 2505 (digital, 30x48)

 

[CountryGent]

My wife took these and sent to me when I was many thousands of miles away:





From the same trip of theirs, my young son took this one.