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Created for the Blind Pig Speakeasy Cemetery Challenge: www.flickr.com/groups/2326918@N21/discuss/72157635983600105/
Texture by Darkwood: www.flickr.com/photos/darkwood67/8200835880/in/photostream/
F-14A Tomcat - 1/15th Scale
After 9 months of work my Tomcat is finally done. The model depicts Wichita 106 from VF-1 Wolfpack squadron, one of the first two squadrons to deploy onto a carrier with the Tomcat. It is displayed on a section of the USS Enterprise Aircraft Carrier that carried the squadron in 1974 and 1975.
The plane itself measures 127cm long and contains roughly 8,000 pieces. As with my Phantom it has PF function powered control surfaces including elevons, rudder and spoilers along with a host of other manual functions like variable geometry swing wings, leading and trailing edge flaps, speed brakes and arrestor hook.
The model also has an after-market F-14A sound module with a 2-inch speaker in each engine tail pipe complete with start-up and shut-down sequences and LED lights that engage at the afterburner stage.
There are numerous custom made decals and stencils, a detailed cockpit and custom vacuum formed canopy glazing. The “airbags” that sit under the sweeping wings are made from dyed Lego sail material.
The carrier deck is a section depicting the starboard forward catapult of the USS Enterprise, complete with jet blast deflector, MD-1 Tow Tractor and various poseable deck crew (designed by the awesome Joe Perez).
The nose gear is inter-changeable to depict either standing or catapult launch stances.
There are certainly nods to some of the other great Lego Tomcat builds out there so thanks to everyone who provided inspiration. This was undoubtable the most complex and challenging project I have done to date, I found the Tomcat’s curves incredibly hard to re-create even at this scale.
Thanks for looking, next up it’s either going to be a 1/15th scale F-8E Crusader or a 1/10 scale Spitfire Mk XIV…see you in 6-9 months
This layout is for this weeks challenge over at OLW "Create" is the word, I have had this photo of these cupcakes for ages, waiting for a reason to scrap this photo. I cook alot and cooking is creating, whether it be cooking, scrapping, laughing or writing Its important to create something everyday.
Artist Fred Eversley to create large-scale sculptural installation at One Flagler in West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach
Dec 14, 2022
Eversley’s largest commission to date will be unveiled in spring 2024.
Sculptor and artist Fred Eversley has been commissioned by Related Companies in partnership with the City of West Palm Beach to create a new public art installation. Slated for completion in spring of 2024, the artwork is titled Portals. It will comprise a constellation of eight of his signature parabolic shapes in transparent, violet-hued polyurethane resin, adorning the One Flagler office tower, a new 25-story building designed by architect David Childs and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.
Eversley’s work is often associated with the Light and Space movement. It has been featured in over 200 exhibitions and is included in over 40 museum collections. He has executed 20 large public artwork commissions. By training, Eversley is an engineer, and his sleek creations in cast polyester resins and bronze, and laminated acrylics and stainless steel, frequently take the form of disks, parabolas, helices and lenses. The reflectivity of the works makes them naturally interactive.
Portals will be the largest public art installation and most ambitious project created by Eversley in recent years; upon completion, it will be added to the City of West Palm Beach’s public art program, ArtLife WPB. The selection process for the commission was managed by Related Companies executives and Culture Corps, the art advisory and creative consultancy founded by Doreen Remen and Yvonne Force Villareal.
As part of the project, the adjacent First Church of Christ, Scientist—which inspired Eversley’s Portals—will be preserved in perpetuity. Designed in the Beaux-Arts style by African American architect Julian Abele in 1928, and completed in 1929, the church remains one of the most architecturally significant historic structures in West Palm Beach. The 1.25-acre public green space in front of the new One Flagler building will be named “Julian Abele Park.” The eight sculptures comprising Portals refer to the eight columns of the church.
Explains Eversley, “Seen from afar, eight Portals rise up, from land, and out of water, shaping a graceful gate that resonates with the columns of the church. Like an arced welcoming arm, the Portals lead visitors to the heart of the site’s historical ground. The Portals become an active third part of what is now a sculptural and architectural trilogy, one in which the number eight is a recurring theme. The aim is to inspire and draw thoughts to Abele’s masterful gestures, and to the mind that gave rise to this destination point, which now appears in a new light, and with new life. Portals signals a new beginning––an homage to Abele’s significance and his relevant, lasting contribution, which are here given renewed value and brought into the eternal light of infinite spirit.”
“We believe that public art is inclusive and creates memorable shared experiences providing moments of discovery and inspiration. The park at One Flagler is the perfect place to present an important work of art by an iconic artist,” says Gopal Rajegowda, partner at Related Southeast. “We conducted an in-depth search and proposal process, which resulted in the selection of Portals by Fred Eversley. The artwork stands out for its beautiful, eye-catching design and its homage to architect Julian Abele and the historic church. Eversley’s sculptures will make a meaningful connection between the past and the current important time in the City of West Palm Beach.”
Adds City of West Palm Beach Major Keith James, “By preserving the historical First Church of Christ, Scientist and creating a new monumental artwork that pays tribute to its architect, Related and Fred Eversley are presenting the City of West Palm Beach with a lasting gift. This new park and captivating installation will be a major draw for residents, visitors and art enthusiasts.”
About Portals:
The shape of the sculptures will act as lenses and create optical effects in the parabolic elements, as well as refractions in the surface of the water. The sculptures are made of a crystal-clear material that will be tinted with dyes, adding a violet tone. Due to their shape, the sculptures will vary in gradation from more rich color in the thicker and wider bottom to more pale at the thinner top. The angled edge surfaces will stand out as mirror-reflective signature arches in both daylight and night light.
During the daytime, Portals will change in appearance, shifting with the sunlight, weather and time of day. The tapered surfaces of the sculptures will naturally be illuminated and more reflective due to their angle toward the sun, creating a silhouette of bright mirroring “arches” that will have a distinct and dramatic effect.
At night, Portals will be up-lit from below, so that the light travels upward through the material of the sculptures. The shell will be luminous throughout, but brighter at the bottom and fading toward the top, adding a range of violet to indigo hues.
About Fred Eversley:
Fred Eversley (b. 1941, Brooklyn, New York) is a key figure in the development of contemporary art from Los Angeles during the postwar period. Now based in New York after living and working in Venice Beach, California for fifty years, Eversley synthesizes elements from several art historical movements associated with Southern California, including Light and Space, though his work is the product of a pioneering vision all his own, informed by lifelong studies on the timeless principles of light, space, time, and gravity. Prior to his becoming an artist, Eversley was an engineer who designed and built highintensity acoustical laboratories for NASA, the French atomic energy commission, the European space laboratory, and other major aerospace companies. His science and technology background helped develop his interest in the parabolic shape; the only shape that concentrates all forms of energy to a single focal point.
His pioneering use of polyester resin, and industrial dyes and pigments, reflects the technological advances that define the postwar period even as his work reveals the timeless inner workings of the human eye and mind. Eversley’s abstract, three-dimensional meditations on color—including the luminous parabolic lenses for which he is best known—entice the viewer to approach, prompting questions about how the biological and optical mechanics of sight determine how we see and understand each other, and communicating a kinetic, palpable sense of the mysterious presence of energy throughout the universe.
Fred Eversley is the subject of a solo exhibition, Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World), at the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California, on view through January 15, 2023, and will be the subject of forthcoming solo exhibitions at David Kordansky Gallery, New York, in May 2023 and at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, California, in 2024. He has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (2017); Art + Practice, Los Angeles (2016); National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C. (1981); Palm Springs Art Museum, California (1977); Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (1976); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1970). Recent group exhibitions include Light & Space, Copenhagen Contemporary (2021-2022); Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2017 – 2020, traveled to five venues); Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London (2018); and Water & Power, curated by the late Noah Davis, Underground Museum (2018). His work is in the permanent collections of more than four dozen museums throughout the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Museum of Modern Art, New York; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The first monograph dedicated to Eversley’s work was published by David Kordansky Gallery in 2022. Eversley lives and works in New York.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.relatedross.com/press-releases/2022-12-14/artist-fred...
www.wpbmagazine.com/portals-a-transformative-art-installa...
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Created in Photoshop using Kais Power Tools, a plug-in for Photoshop. 32bit. I still have a couple of them working in a virtual machine running Photoshop 3.1 my original version. Early 2000's.
Created for Textures for Layers Challenge #19: Wooden Doll
Original from Nesster
Used one of my own and free stock photo given Wooden Doll and one texture from the pool, thx to Elena Baca.
Created for The Award Tree New!! Challenge 74.0 ~ Experimental Directions ~ March 1st - 50 images.
Texture courtesy of dsm8954 , thanks Daniel
In the spirit of this challenge's theme"...experimental and of a style or direction that is new to you.", I tried a number of new things here: shooting through the camera in the iphone, playing around with a GIMP program a friend of mine had given me a few months back (in the end, not really doing too much with it) and using someone else's texture.
CAPTIONS::::
"But I don't WANT to take the garbage out...." [Acqgpsy]
"But honey, it was a long time ago -- and I was drunk!" [Pudchuck]
"STELLA!!!" [TAIwiffic]
He's crying ~~ " I want my side of the rock!!!! " [CSM242000]
He's whining: "Ah Marge, I'm King of the jungle!!" [cmifbpiks]
"- "but you ALWAYS get your way" [g*s*c*]
"oooooh yeaHHHH!!" [Su bu]
"Ahhhh-CHOO!" [Patillac 13]
"Ow! Take it out! Ow! Ow! Ow!" [HiWalkerPhoto]
"Oh my gosh, that smell--what did you bring home for dinner THIS time?!" [terri_lg]
Created in Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, "Nano Banana."
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
"Creating Originality at Home and at Work" by JONATHAN A. KNEE via NYT t.co/nEuvuiDYtt (via Twitter twitter.com/felipemassone/status/693135075857268737)
Image source: Flickr user iboy_daniel.
Idea for sign: Another Flickr photo but I can't find it again for the life of me.
Quotation source: Me.
I started with my art journal today! I'm going to try and do this on a daily basis. It was fun!!! Blogged here: www.creativeflutter.blogspot.com
Created for MacroMondays - theme - Humility
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” - Isaac Newton
MacroMondays group has become a great inspirational boost. I am always left in awe of the wonderful contributions to this pool, hoping that just a spec of the talent from others might rub off on me allowing my petals to open more fully. Thanks for being such a great group! :D
Happy MacroMonday!
Created for DigitalMontage Challenge 8 - Mythical Creatures
Thanks to Rubyblossom for pre-made background
The piece I created for a recent Crim Collective exhibition at Zephyr in Huddersfield. The theme was Wild West inhabitants, so I slotted my Indian Chief in along all the cowboys and dirty hill-billies.
Cooling down after our hike up to this beautiful meadow in the Gore Range where we camped for two nights.