I got an offer I could not refuse on another Germs painting...

[GReedDiamond]

Title: Lucha

Medium: Acrylic on wood panel with vintage frame.

Image area: Approx 29" width x 22" height, 32 5/8" w X 30" h framed size.

This is done in his more "traditional" style of rendering of what he calls "Lucha Squids."



(Note: The upper right corner shows a lot of glare, in person it actually looks more like the upper left corner.)

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Like your work

[GReedDiamond]

2. To clarify, this is not by me...

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...it's by a friend of mine known as Germs.

So you like Germs' work.

Which is great!

But here is something by me:



Called Birdbrain, it is a digitally altered photograph of a bird dropping.

On Edit - Here's an oil on canvas, Love Gasoline, 58" width X 32" height (unframed).

[MLAA]

3. I really like Germs.

Did you did paint the car? I love it. The bird photo is also very cool.

[GReedDiamond]

4. Germs is great, so I've thought for about 17 years now...

...plus he's a great person. He came over to my place today to help move a bunch of stuff out of a Victorian era 2-car garage which I'm converting into a (mostly) Germs mini-gallery and office/studio. He brought that painting with him to show to me. It's still here.

He's got a real solid base of collectors (besides me), he has done several museum shows, and will be in the permanent collection of Cheech Marin's Chicano Art Museum when it opens.

The car painting (Love Gasoline) and the Bird Brain were done by me.

[MLAA]

5. The car painting is just beautiful.

Please post more of your work when you have time.

[GReedDiamond]

6. Thanks so much, I really appreciate that...

...Love Gasoline sold to somebody at a charity auction for the Sierra Madre CA Public Library. I didn't have room for it in my house, so I donated it to the auction. I don't know who bought it though.

I'll dig up some other stuff and post it here, in this sub-thread.

In the meantime, here's another one I donated to the same auction on another year:



Title: Stolen Eyes

Medium: Oil on canvas, 24" width X 20" height.

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Title: (untitled) Fisheye Cat

Medium: Oil on canvas, 24" width X 20" height.

I found a bag of frozen peas in my freezer and thought it looked like a fish, so I helped the idea along.



Title: Peaquarium

Medium: Oil on canvas, 24" width X 20" height.

I did all of these at the same time around 2005.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. I was like 'those are pretty good' but then when you said you did them all at the same time I was

really blown away!

Which one did you do with your foot?

[GReedDiamond]

8. Actually, I did certain areas of all of them...

...with my prehensile tail.

True story.

I no longer do that, as I had the tail removed several years ago.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Are there any photos, by chance?

Cause that sounds AWESOME

[GReedDiamond]

10. Photos of the p-tail in action, or of it being removed?

I dropped off the entire single-use cardboard camera containing both to be developed at the local FotoShack in 2005, and when I went back in 2007, the place had become a SooshiShack, drive-thru sushi. They were using my Peaquarium picture on the front of the menu.

True Story.

Rilly.

I mean it.

[MLAA]

11. Sure hope they had as good a taste in food as they had in art!

I love peaquarium. It has magic. You have incredible talent. Do you still paint?

I started taking painting lessons from a local artist a few years ago. I love painting my friends cats and dogs. Your cat paintings are beautiful and really motivate me.

[GReedDiamond]

12. Thanks MLAA...

...I don't do much painting these days. One reason being, I don't really have enough space for a proper studio, another being I use up a lot of time doing tee shirt and garment silkscreen/airbrush/hand painting pre-production work for a company in L.A. - although I've been working from home since before the pandemic, which saves a lot of time and aggravation from driving back and forth every day.

I'm also going to start a recording project as soon as I get the music tracks from my collaborator, which will consume a lot of time until completion.

Anyway, I'm happy to know my cat pictures are a motivation to you, keep painting!

[lunatica]

13. I love your cats and peaquarium!

They are very colorful and have an element of mysteriousness so typical of cats. My cat gets a wild eyed look where he opens his eyes wide, like in alarm just before he dashes off somewhere mysterious in the house. He does it to elicit a surprised gasp from me. Sometimes I mess with him by gasping, eliciting that surprised reaction out of him. He and I understand each other pretty well. We take turns being surprised at each other.

[GReedDiamond]

14. Thanks lunatica...

...we got our current cat from a shelter about 4 years ago. She's a 14 y.o. polydactyl calico with diabetes and hyperthyroidism, so she mostly lays around/sleeps a lot.

BTW, I should make it to the Post Office on Saturday, at least that's my plan. I'll send a DU mail with a tracking number when I get it.

[lunatica]

15. Thanks so much!