An Interview with the Iron Dwarf

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:
I just picked up a prject in Westfield NJ starting monday - is that anywhere near the Dwarf Hovel?[/quote]

About an hour and a half!

How long will you be here?

:slight_smile:

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weā€™ll have crews there all next week, then come back sometime in Dec for another week.

I doubt if Iā€™ll get to go, but if I do, Iā€™ll look you up[/quote]

He will do it ID, he made me drink and eat with him and get me in trouble with the wife.[/quote]

Thatā€™s what Iā€™m hoping for!

:slight_smile:

If not now, Edgy, then perhaps in December!
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the boss just told me that he is heading to New Orleans on Monday, and will travel to visit this job on Tuesday - I offered, and he said that heā€™d be out there anyways - fml~

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[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Edgy wrote:
I just picked up a prject in Westfield NJ starting monday - is that anywhere near the Dwarf Hovel?[/quote]

About an hour and a half!

How long will you be here?

:slight_smile:

[/quote]

weā€™ll have crews there all next week, then come back sometime in Dec for another week.

I doubt if Iā€™ll get to go, but if I do, Iā€™ll look you up[/quote]

He will do it ID, he made me drink and eat with him and get me in trouble with the wife.[/quote]

Thatā€™s what Iā€™m hoping for!

:slight_smile:

If not now, Edgy, then perhaps in December!
[/quote]

the boss just told me that he is heading to New Orleans on Monday, and will travel to visit this job on Tuesday - I offered, and he said that heā€™d be out there anyways - fml~
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In due time, Viking friend, In due time!

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ID, do you draw or paint anything else besides what weā€™ve seen? For example, fantasy/outdoor scenes?

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[quote]imhungry wrote:
ID, do you draw or paint anything else besides what weā€™ve seen? For example, fantasy/outdoor scenes?
[/quote]

Not really fantasy, as most of you know it. I work in a handful of styles as a painter.
Hereā€™s a sampling of my painted crap:

http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/markccollins

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
ID, do you draw or paint anything else besides what weā€™ve seen? For example, fantasy/outdoor scenes?

[/quote]

Not really fantasy, as most of you know it. I work in a handful of styles as a painter.
Hereā€™s a sampling of my painted crap:

http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/markccollins

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As luck would have it, the linkā€™s blocked at work. Iā€™ll definitely check it out when I get home, later tonight.

What medium do you prefer the most? Do have times where you just are NOT in the mood to draw/paint, but have to because you have a deadline?

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[quote]imhungry wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
ID, do you draw or paint anything else besides what weā€™ve seen? For example, fantasy/outdoor scenes?

[/quote]

Not really fantasy, as most of you know it. I work in a handful of styles as a painter.
Hereā€™s a sampling of my painted crap:

http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/markccollins

[/quote]
As luck would have it, the linkā€™s blocked at work. Iā€™ll definitely check it out when I get home, later tonight.

What medium do you prefer the most? Do have times where you just are NOT in the mood to draw/paint, but have to because you have a deadline?

[/quote]

In real-life media, I prefer acrylic on canvas or birch panel.

All my commercial illustration work is digital. But yes, I do have approximately one day per month where I have no desire, or the ability escapes me. Like my rightside brain has shut down.

Same with painting. Sometimes the work is just a muddy mess. No connection at all!

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[quote]pushharder wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
ID, do you draw or paint anything else besides what weā€™ve seen? For example, fantasy/outdoor scenes?
[/quote]

Not really fantasy, as most of you know it. I work in a handful of styles as a painter.
Hereā€™s a sampling of my painted crap:

http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/markccollins
[/quote]

I eagerly perused this site and found NO, and I mean NO as in NONE, paintings of Mrs. Dwarf.

And for that I am severely pissed.[/quote]

Heh heh. Sorry, Push!

I have painted her portrait twice in the past. I even did some nude studies of her when we started dating! I gotta dig up those sketch books!

Itā€™s funny, but everyone tells me that the women I draw in my commercial illustrations always resemble Mrs Dwarf.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
I even did some nude studies of her [/quote]

???

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]pushharder wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
ID, do you draw or paint anything else besides what weā€™ve seen? For example, fantasy/outdoor scenes?
[/quote]

Not really fantasy, as most of you know it. I work in a handful of styles as a painter.
Hereā€™s a sampling of my painted crap:

http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/markccollins
[/quote]

I eagerly perused this site and found NO, and I mean NO as in NONE, paintings of Mrs. Dwarf.

And for that I am severely pissed.[/quote]

Heh heh. Sorry, Push!

I have painted her portrait twice in the past. I even did some nude studies of her when we started dating! I gotta dig up those sketch books!

Itā€™s funny, but everyone tells me that the women I draw in my commercial illustrations always resemble Mrs Dwarf.[/quote]

^Really? Iā€™ll have to take your word for it since you havenā€™t sent me any prelim drawings of my own wife ya fucker. Remember about a year ago?

Iā€™m bummed dudeā€¦youā€™ve been hanging out with Edgy too long, he hates Canadians too :wink:

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[quote]bond james bond wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]pushharder wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
ID, do you draw or paint anything else besides what weā€™ve seen? For example, fantasy/outdoor scenes?
[/quote]

Not really fantasy, as most of you know it. I work in a handful of styles as a painter.
Hereā€™s a sampling of my painted crap:

http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/markccollins
[/quote]

I eagerly perused this site and found NO, and I mean NO as in NONE, paintings of Mrs. Dwarf.

And for that I am severely pissed.[/quote]

Heh heh. Sorry, Push!

I have painted her portrait twice in the past. I even did some nude studies of her when we started dating! I gotta dig up those sketch books!

Itā€™s funny, but everyone tells me that the women I draw in my commercial illustrations always resemble Mrs Dwarf.[/quote]

^Really? Iā€™ll have to take your word for it since you havenā€™t sent me any prelim drawings of my own wife ya fucker. Remember about a year ago?

Iā€™m bummed dudeā€¦youā€™ve been hanging out with Edgy too long, he hates Canadians too :wink:
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Man, Iā€™ve had that on my mind ever since! Sorry I never got to it. I think it basically came down to the photo not being sharp enough to pick up the minor details that are required for defining the features that make a good caricature or portrait.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]bond james bond wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]pushharder wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
ID, do you draw or paint anything else besides what weā€™ve seen? For example, fantasy/outdoor scenes?
[/quote]

Not really fantasy, as most of you know it. I work in a handful of styles as a painter.
Hereā€™s a sampling of my painted crap:

http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/markccollins
[/quote]

I eagerly perused this site and found NO, and I mean NO as in NONE, paintings of Mrs. Dwarf.

And for that I am severely pissed.[/quote]

Heh heh. Sorry, Push!

I have painted her portrait twice in the past. I even did some nude studies of her when we started dating! I gotta dig up those sketch books!

Itā€™s funny, but everyone tells me that the women I draw in my commercial illustrations always resemble Mrs Dwarf.[/quote]

^Really? Iā€™ll have to take your word for it since you havenā€™t sent me any prelim drawings of my own wife ya fucker. Remember about a year ago?

Iā€™m bummed dudeā€¦youā€™ve been hanging out with Edgy too long, he hates Canadians too :wink:
[/quote]

Man, Iā€™ve had that on my mind ever since! Sorry I never got to it. I think it basically came down to the photo not being sharp enough to pick up the minor details that are required for defining the features that make a good caricature or portrait.[/quote]

Shit thatā€™s right, I forgot. Sorry man.

Maybe Iā€™ll try bugging my niece I told you about whoā€™s fantastic. All that talent and sheā€™s happy working in a mailroom at a small company, what a waste. Whatever makes you happy I guess.

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Have you read Les Miserable? A regular poster here on T-Nation suggested it in a PM. You would never guess who, I know I wouldnā€™t. Anyway Iā€™m halfway through and when Iā€™m finished It will be the best story Iā€™ve ever read me thinks.

Raft Of Medusa. Thoughts? I saw a special on the painter a few months ago and fell in love with this work of genius. The fucking size and scope is staggering.The back story is tragic as well.

I could stare at this painting for hours. Iā€™m actually thinking of getting a small print of it for my home.

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[quote]bond james bond wrote:

Maybe Iā€™ll try bugging my niece I told you about whoā€™s fantastic. All that talent and sheā€™s happy working in a mailroom at a small company, what a waste. Whatever makes you happy I guess.

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If possible, PM me some of her work. Iā€™ll give an honest critique!

[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Have you read Les Miserable? A regular poster here on T-Nation suggested it in a PM. You would never guess who, I know I wouldnā€™t. Anyway Iā€™m halfway through and when Iā€™m finished It will be the best story Iā€™ve ever read me thinks.

Raft Of Medusa. Thoughts? I saw a special on the painter a few months ago and fell in love with this work of genius. The fucking size and scope is staggering.The back story is tragic as well.

I could stare at this painting for hours. Iā€™m actually thinking of getting a small print of it for my home.

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I had a copy of Les Mis since high school, but never read it! Never even saw the play adaptation. Now that you suggested it, I may pick it up! Thanks

Oh yes, Gericaultā€™s masterpiece based on a true shipwreck in his day. One of my favorite paintings.

As a kid, I grew up in a house with NO artbooks. Never set foot in an art museum until my mid teens. However, for some reason I have a vivid memory of seeing ā€œThe Raft of Medusaā€ in person as a kid. I cannot for the life of me recall where, but I DO remember it was public place, a HUGE canvas, and I was taken over by the desperate drama unfolding on its surface. The thing is, I had thought it a dream for years until I bought my first art book when I was 20ā€¦ and within its pages I saw a picture of that painting and it hit me! ā€œI saw THAT very painting as a kid somewhere! This painting DOES exist!ā€

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to Clarifyā€¦

my percieved animosity towards our frozen neighbors of the north is a metaphor for me breaking free and releasing myself from the prison of my own making.

the oft imbued cry to ā€˜invade canadaā€™, is my attempts to show my reverence for our esteemed Maple Leafed neighbors, and thier ability to live a good life full of fun and laughter.

as you can see, the very fact that I even mention the name ā€˜Canadaā€™ is, in itself, a compliment.

when a persone grows up tall, pasty white with bright orange hair, you learn that:

any attention, is good attention.

stay thirsty my friends

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WHOA!!!

Iā€™m honored and flattered you posted this revelation HERE in my thread (a thread YOU started for me).

What brought on this sudden change of heart, friend?!

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
WHOA!!!

Iā€™m honored and flattered you posted this revelation HERE in my thread (a thread YOU started for me).

What brought on this sudden change of heart, friend?![/quote]

methinks that there are many that I have offended.

Edgy wished not to offend.

nor do I wish to be odiferous.

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[quote]Edgy wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
WHOA!!!

Iā€™m honored and flattered you posted this revelation HERE in my thread (a thread YOU started for me).

What brought on this sudden change of heart, friend?![/quote]

methinks that there are many that I have offended.

Edgy wished not to offend.

nor do I wish to be odiferous.[/quote]

Iā€™m liking this!
Though I do believe most here took your jabs in good humor, your change of heart will be welcome Iā€™m sure!

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
ID, do you draw or paint anything else besides what weā€™ve seen? For example, fantasy/outdoor scenes?

[/quote]

Not really fantasy, as most of you know it. I work in a handful of styles as a painter.
Hereā€™s a sampling of my painted crap:

http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/markccollins

[/quote]
As luck would have it, the linkā€™s blocked at work. Iā€™ll definitely check it out when I get home, later tonight.

What medium do you prefer the most? Do have times where you just are NOT in the mood to draw/paint, but have to because you have a deadline?

[/quote]

In real-life media, I prefer acrylic on canvas or birch panel.

All my commercial illustration work is digital. But yes, I do have approximately one day per month where I have no desire, or the ability escapes me. Like my rightside brain has shut down.

Same with painting. Sometimes the work is just a muddy mess. No connection at all!
[/quote]

Being creative on demand must be a bitch.