Record Textures from my post www.fuzzimo.com/24-free-lp-vinyl-records-pictures-textures/
Vinyl Visions: The Joys Of Record Collecting From 1931 To The Future
Greetings, outta-towners and in-towners alike! You may recall a couple of weeks ago I showed you around my Tennessee-themed home. In that post I mentioned wanting to create another Tennessee-inspired painting. Well, here 'tis! All 2' X 5' of it. I'm all about the Go-Big-or-Go-Home, can you tell? The original postcard that inspired the painting. Interested in creating your own city/state souvenir postcard? Well, it's actually pretty simple. You'll just need the following: Canvas, any size Enlarged copies of the postcard lettering if you are not comfortable drawing your own Acrylic paint, brushes State/city maps (I picked mine up for free at AAA) Chisel-tipped sharpie and black brush pen Tissue paper and stick pins Modge Podge DIY Disclaimer: I am prone to take the more-difficult-and-frustrating road when crafting. Don't ask me why. For your sanity, I've also included an easier version of the same directions which you will find under the heading "Or you could just...". Eye-ballin' it. Not something I recommend as it wears out the eraser and the patience. I began with a sketch. I started with a line that all of the letters would rest on and then created a parallel line 8" above that. Lightly, I drew in the letters giving each one about a 3-5" width. Or you could just...enlarge copies of the postcard. Enlarge each letter, cut it out and play around with the positioning on your canvas. Once you've got it where you want it, tape them down and trace around the letters with pencil. The color in this photo is slightly off, as it's much more a mustard-yellow, not a poop-yellow. From there, I mixed up a giant batch of the background color. Always mix up more paint that you think you'll need. Why? Because it is impossible to mix the exact color twice. You may think you can and then you put brush to canvas and realize Homer-Simpson-slap-to-the-head-"duh!" style that you needed more white/yellow/black/wine. Trust me. Keep paint covered in Saran Wrap until the very end of your project as you never know when you might need to touch up a spot (this I did not do and you'll see why I wish I had shortly). Or you could just...take the easy no-paint-mixing road and just buy the color of paint for the background. In that case, buy two tubes. Tissue paper tracing. To insure that my map letters were going to fit my canvas, I created letter patterns using tissue paper. Or you could just...remember those letters you so cleverly xerox copied? Those will be your letter patterns. Creating the map letters. With my letter patterns pinned onto my map, I cut out each letter for my sign. If you are using your original xerox copies, you could do the same. Ta-dah! Making the letters three dimensional. With the letters cut out, I began the background painting. Before putting paint to canvas, I used a pencil and lightly sketched in where I wanted the drop shadow to be. This shadow helped the letters really pop out and gave them a three dimensional quality. Again, mix up way more paint than you'd ever thought imaginable and dive in. Once the drop shadow was complete, I began Modge-Podging the letters into place. Using the matte Modge Podge, I covered the area of the canvas where the letter would go, placed the letter on top and then added another layer of 'podge on top of that. Once dry, I began using the chisel-tipped Sharpie to create a black shadow on the right side of the letters. You can see this best in the photo below Guess who can't spell Tennessee? Although, I do believe Teene-see would be a pretty cute name, don't you? Now, when it came to adding the other written text, lemme just say I thought I was so clever. I wrote out the text on tissue paper and then traced it with a Sharpie. The thought being that the Sharpie would bleed through just enough for me to trace them with my brush pen. Sounds great, right? Sure it woulda been had I been able to spell correctly. My horrendous spellin' ways always take me back to that Frightening Fifth Grade Spelling Bee where I spelled...wait for it..."morning" incorrectly. That's right, I thought it should be "mourning" as in "We are all mourning the dreadful spelling of this poor dimwitted girl." Thankfully, this spelling error was corrected with a little bit of acetone (that'd be nail polish) and a q-tip. I managed to wipe off my boo-boo just enough...as well as remove a wee bit of paint. Remember how I told you to save your paint? Yeah, this would have come in real handy if I had. Der. Nash, Tenn., yo. Just a closeup of my Sharpie-outlining skillz. There is no way I'm ever going back to painting hard edges with a brush. No. Way. My vintage record player has the best acoustics. I decided to sample my latest thrifted records during a painting lull. Finished sign now hangs out in my kitchen. So you can handle this, right? Just follow my much easier or you could just... and you'll be well on your way to your very own souvenir sign! Or you could just...take a nap. That's my plan anyway. Thanks for stopping by!
Face it, you don't get any of this with Spotify.
Shot during his last tour, French hip hop artist Wax Tailor spent a little bit of time hanging out in your typical US record store.
*This is a sample picture. The records in the photo may not be the records you will receive.* **We do not take record requests at this time** This is a lot of random records from my collection. I have over 5,000 records stored in my basement right now that I need to get rid of most of them ASAP. Im an artist and I only use scratched records for my work so I have a bunch of leftover good quality records that I do not want to ruin for my artwork. These records will be selected completely at random and are for people who are looking to decorate their room with vinyl and album covers or just listen to some new music! Please email me if you have any further questions. Feel free to check out my other Etsy listings and follow me @robson_records for updates and cool vinyl art!!
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Vinyl Visions: The Joys Of Record Collecting From 1931 To The Future
Although his creative career started in architecture, UK based artist and designer Alex Khabbazi now explores form and materiality in two dimensions. His process combines physical and digital techniques to create bold, decisive artworks featuring analogue textures and undulating shapes. Aside from designing standalone prints, Alex lends his distinctive style to select musicians, record labels and fashion brands for collaborative releases.
oil on canvas, 1939 German Karl Hofer (1878 - 1955) Characteristic of Karl Hofer's paintings, The Record Player depicts a single figure set in a domestic interior. The figure's isolation and blank expression, combined with Hofer's somber palatte, create a tone of melancholy that is typical throughout his work. Some historians point to the disturbing qualities of Hofer's pantings as indicative of his disillusionment with the social and political climate in germany at the time. Just a few years before painting The Record Player, Hofer was condemned by the Nazis as a degenerate artist and removed from his teaching post at Berlin's Hochschule für Bildende Künste. His paintings we confiscated.
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A painting by Alex Colville shattered the artist's previous auction record at a sale held Wednesday in Toronto.
Cassettebandjes… ja, jonge lezers onder ons, je leest het woord goed, al heb je misschien geen idee wat het zijn… Nou, dat waren van die bandjes met tape erin en daarop stond muziek, of…
Teenage hobbies of the 1970s—model and high powered rocketry & souped up stereo sound systems. Welcome to the teenage bedroom of Joe Roberts of Minnechaug High School, Class of '78. "Most people probably don't remember me as I was very shy in school." Read Joe's in depth take on his personal collection of rockets & speakers. I started in Model Rocketry in the summer of 1973, towards the end of the "golden age" of rocketry. My first rocket was an Estes Alpha III, and my second was the Estes X-Ray. My activities in Model Rocketry were at an agressive rate from the summer of 1973 until about the end of 1974. After that time, my interest in rocketry was somewhat less... not that I was disinterested in rockets, I had other interests coming on line (astronomy and stereo systems). My rocketry activities did continue at some level through and including the 1980's and 1990's, but in a number of those years rocket launches took place only once or twice per year. In late 1998 I became interested in High Power Rocketry and certified Level 1 shortly thereafter. January 1977. A new Pioneer PL-112D turntable has been added (it was my big Christmas present for 1976). Had to re-arrange a number of items to accommodate the new gear. With the new turntable, my 45 record collection suffered much less wear (even though I had modified the old GE phono to track a lot lighter). It also sounds a lot better! One old turntable is now retired.
