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[GKreindler]

Oh man, Leyendecker was a GOD amongst men. Those illustrators of the golden era were really some of the greatest (and most underrated) artists of all time...

[milkit1]

Graig! your paintings are the nicest baseball paintings Ive ever seen. How bout doing lil baseball cards ones and selling them on this forum? id love a Hal Chase

[GKreindler]

Hey milkit1! Thanks so much for the compliments. I actually might do some smaller paintings in the future, say 5"x7" studies, most of which would end up being portraits. I would imagine that they'll end up being a bit looser and more expressive, being that they'd be so small. So, I'll certainly keep the Black Prince of Baseball in mind!!

[milkit1]

Hi Graig!
That would be great! here is my favorite Hal Chase pic:

hal chase.jpg

Could you do action shots in small scale? My fave of your paintings are the ones with the stadium backgrounds especially "Beast Bangs Gomez". Another neat Idea I think would be to add your buyer into the pic maybe as a person in the crowd or whatever.

sean

[Brian Van Horn]

Picture is too big for my scanner:

[GKreindler]

I'll keep it in mind, Sean, though with the images being only 5"x7", I don't think they would be too action oriented, unless they were just incredibly simplified. Once I start getting that small, the back starts to really hurt if I go in there for some serious detail...

[milkit1]

Il think youll do just fine. You are already way too picky as is! lol
Id suggest starting a thread on here asking how many people would be interested in this and how much theyd be willing to spend or put your own prices down or whatever. Maybe do 1 or 2 to show what you can do on a small scale. If you are getting a few to buy your big peices im sure you could get a lot more to buy your less expensive small works. Im surprised you havent been approached by any of the major card companies to do artwork cards for random pack insertions. This Avengers set i collect had 50 original drawings that they inserted randomly into packs that were very cool!
Sean