Show your BB related artwork

[Michael Peich]

Matt-With talent like yours, I'd stop sleeping or quit my job and commit to baseball painting full time! That is a stunning painting of Ryan, and he must have liked it. You are much better than the (to my mind) over-rated work of Dick Perez.
Great thread, Ted.

Cheers, Mike

[DixieBaseball]

Originally Posted by Michael Peich

Matt-With talent like yours, I'd stop sleeping or quit my job and commit to baseball painting full time! That is a stunning painting of Ryan, and he must have liked it. You are much better than the (to my mind) over-rated work of Dick Perez.
Great thread, Ted.

Cheers, Mike

+1

[brookdodger55]

Local Long Island Artist Pat Olds 1991 (copyright), Looks like a combo of Possibily Yankee Staduim and T 206 Card design. Picked this up a the Monthly LI Hofstra Card Show a few years ago

[sayhey24]

Here are a few more from my collection --

Greg
http://www.baseballbasement.com

[baseballart]

Here is some of my collection

Bob Meusel pulp cover painting, from the only year he was with the Reds



Dallas minor leagues, c 1950



Fred Guardineer, pulp art



I have a number more, I guess I will need to take some more photos.

Max

[old13man]

I showed this a while back but here is one my wife's friend painted for me.

CJ

[srs1a]

A charcoal drawing by my wife

[abothebear]

Father Christmas made this for my son this year. Guess who Father Christmas's favorite player is?

[KODIAK]

This is an original oil painting done by my friend and neighbor for my 50th birthday. This beauty measures 3' by 4'.

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[ScottFandango]

that ryan is AMAZING

has the detail of colored pencil drawing!

wow

[CW]

After stumbling upon this story a few days ago, I set a snipe hoping to land this cool Gehrig piece, an original "sketch card" by Chris Henderson. 90% of the proceeds went to a great cause, and I got to add some amazing artwork to the collection without breaking the bank. The artist nailed this one, in my opinion, and the detail is amazing for something the size of a standard baseball card. One of the most satisfying purchases I've made in some time. Posted along with the original (Conlon?) photo for comparison.

[Vegas-guy]

Originally Posted by Michael Peich

Matt-With talent like yours, I'd stop sleeping or quit my job and commit to baseball painting full time! That is a stunning painting of Ryan, and he must have liked it. You are much better than the (to my mind) over-rated work of Dick Perez.
Great thread, Ted.

Cheers, Mike

+2 The Ryan is beautiful..

[DJR]

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[Kzoo]

Originally Posted by Michael Peich

That is a stunning painting of Ryan, and he must have liked it.

Mike, Jeremy, Reg.......Thanks for the kind words. Nolan Ryan actually didn't say a word about my painting, he just decided where he thought it should be signed and I agreed (then and now). Also, I had my photo taken with him and the painting, but he really didn't show or express any emotion....the line was long behind me and he was all business....kind of like when he was on the mound.

Matt

[laughlinfan]

I have to admit I would be a bit disappointed if I created something as nice as you did, Matt, and Nolan didn't acknowledge, but I guess he'd probably seen hundreds of painted images in his career. That is one beautiful painting!

Very nice thread - I've always liked picking up original art pieces, especially artwork used in the creation of cards. Anyone else been picking up any of the artwork Upper Deck commissioned for their Masterpieces and other artwork based sets? I really appreciate the talents of some the folks they used for these sets - Chuck Gilles, Ron Stark, Andy Jurinko, Darryl Vlasak,and Arthur Miller to name a few of my favorites. I'll try to post pictures of a few I've picked up.

[baseballart]

I earlier posted some of my older artwork. As many of you may know, my spouse Jennifer Ettinger has been painting baseball images (as well as dogs, cats and whatever else wanders in the door) for the last 18 years. She is fortunate enough to have 22 of her paintings blown up and on display at Nat Bailey Stadium in Vancouver

Here's a shot of the Stadium . She has also recently competed two paintings of the Stadium, one of which is here

and the stadium has a baseball card as part of the team set, which is pretty cool

She's done quite a number of baseball paintings, which can be seen here http://www.flickr.com/photos/basebal...7594074775860/

Finally, she's working on a 21 painting commission of New York Yankees. Here's Keeler and Chesbro

[laughlinfan]

Your wife is very talented, Max! About the only thing I know about painting is that I can't do it, unfortunately!

Here are a couple of pictures of some of the UD artwork I have picked up in the past couple of years:

[benjulmag]

Thanks Max. I first learned about Dohanos when I saw one of his works on display at the HOF. That one was used for the cover of an October 1952 Satruday Evening Post. I think his work is terrific illustration art.

[Kzoo]

Max..............Your wife is an awesome artist! I would love to paint as a profession. That image of Chesbro is beautiful. What's the medium and size?

Matt