Gare's Non-Xara Artwork, Vol. 3

[iamtheblues]

I've never seen the sense in spending a fortune at a hotel when I'm only going to be at meeting and being a tourist all day.

If you're like me I feel sorry for you, and...you've also probably noticed all the classic art masterpieces bolted to a hotel room's wall.

Why does a hotel bolt wholesale art prints to a wall? Me, I'm not going to steal them.

Anyhow, here's my entry into the Hotel Art Realm, and room 12, first floor, next door to a broken drinks vending machine, loud ice maker and air conditioning vent.





This year, I hope to pick up where Bob Ross ended with

• Brook near a Mill

• Sad Clown

• August dusk in some cornfield

•Abstract night scene of a rainy street in Paris or somewhere with as little neon

• 3 seagulls in the air near a deserted shore, and

• Elvis in velvet

-g

Ibet if you turn the little red-nosed guy around, there are a couple of vertical line details on the back!

[Gare]

Aha! The little red-nosed ghuy doesn't "play" outside of the USA! Sorry!

That's "Hamburger Helper", a sawdust-based meat additive/extender that Betty Crocker has turned into a really disgusting way to feed a family of 47 with a 1/4 pound of ground beef.



Interesting you picked up on Disney's signature "hand" for most of the cartoon characters. I took a year of traditional animation in college, and the teacher explained the "inside joke" about the gloves that began appearing in animated cartoons beginning with, (I think) "Steamboat Willy" 90 years ago.

To keep fingerprints off the acetate while an artist inked and painted the frames, they wore cheap cotton gloves. And at the time, the least expensive/most common ones had the three pleated stripes on the back. So for the artists to go a little over the top, they added animator's gloves to all the characters. Funny at the time, I suppose!

Our class also discovered the reason why the cartoon creatures had only three fingers. Really simple one: because four made the roundish, exaggerated characters look wrong. Rather than portraying hands, a five fingered character looked as though they had a bunch of cigars sprouting from their wrists.

Unless you're going for photorealism, even today animators will use the three finger deal. Try drawing a cartoon hand sometime with the correct number od fingers—you'll immediately see the reasoning. Besides, three fingers + a thumb are one digit simpler to animate!

My Best,

Gary