OT - Sports Paintings & Illustrations

[harpt]

Chris

I have some stuff by Rick Rush (who they call the Norman Rockwell of sports), who I really like alot. The limited edition print, in the case of one of my pieces, is limited to 190. I find this very attractive compared to (for example) many wildlife prints (like Terry Redlin) where the pieces are limited to something like 3,500 prints.

Stephen Holland is a good one though. Very unique looking stuff.

Scott

[David]

Consider paintings. It takes hundreds of hours to make one and there's very little forgery with modern sports paintings.

[rose14]

I have several pieces in my collection. I have a couple of original pieces by Darryl Vlasak along with a very unique Mickey Mantle piece. This item is 40 x 49 and is made up of neary 2,700 different Topps mico baseball cards. When right up on the item it looks like a bunch of different cards but as you get about 4 feet or further away the famous image of Mickey Mantle and his #7 appear from the backgrounds of the cards. This piece was the first one that this artist did and there were only 7 ever made. I am not sure how the artist did it but it is really cool looking. I know the same artist did a Babe Ruth one and it sold for over $8,000 in the December Lelands auction.

[AbsolonMoreau]

How my Mantle painting is evolving, hoping to be done with it this week

Original image:




Need to make the face a lot more realistic and then will make the bat look more realistic too!

[71buc]

I have enough trouble affording the things I currently collect. I love art and baseball but cannot afford to indulge both. I really enjoy vintage baseball photography which is about as close as my budget lets me come to art. I do have one piece of original comic art depicting Clemente. Revolutionary comics came out with a Clemente issue in 1992. I am a huge Clemente fan so on a whim I called the company and asked if I could purchase a page. They said sure and asked me which I wanted. I purchased this splash page for $100.00. I think it was the best in the book and now wish I had bought more of them. Nonetheless it is cool to own a one of a kind item featuring the great one.

[Gkreindler]

Hey all,

I haven't posted anything here in a while, so for those of you who are interested, here's some of the stuff I've finished since:


Lou Gehrig, 1925, 16" x 20"


Stan Musial, 1942, 16" x 20"


Mickey Mantle, April 14, 1951, 9" x 12"


Willie Mays, 1955, 9" x 12"


Derek Jeter, 200, 11" x 14"


Babe Ruth, June 25, 1920, 28" x 50"


Babe Ruth, November 4, 1934, 50" x 64"


Roger Maris, October 1, 1961, 38" x 52"

And a few random in-progresses:


Mickey Mantle, May 14, 1955, 9" x 12"


Red Ruffing, 1936, 16" x 20"


Babe Ruth, 1918, 30" x 34"


Lou Gehrig, 1938, 18" x 24"

Hope y'all dig 'em!!

Graig

[shoremen44]

Graig,
Simply beautiful... I love the faces... the eyes are so deep...

but someone said it about a previous painting of yours... The Maris and the Ruths below... I feel like they are moving... you really capture the feel of the action... it is almost like I am there...

Beautiful work

[Gkreindler]

Bert,

Thank you SO much for your kind words. If you feel like you're actually in the Stadium and all, then I definitely feel like I've done my job (no matter how much my gut tells me otherwise).

I'm so glad you're enjoying it all!

Graig

[cohibasmoker]

In the early 1970's, there were a series of prints distributed and done by a guy named David Boss. They were pretty cool items because they came already mounted on a antique looking frame and the process used to manufacture the prints made the pieces look like original artwork. Most of the major NFL teams were reproduced and now and again, they show-up on eBay anywhere from $25-$100 bucks.

Jim

flaa1a@comcast.net

[b.heagy]

In the early 1970's, there were a series of prints distributed and done by a guy named David Boss. They were pretty cool items because they came already mounted on a antique looking frame and the process used to manufacture the prints made the pieces look like original artwork. Most of the major NFL teams were reproduced and now and again, they show-up on eBay anywhere from $25-$100 bucks.

Jim

flaa1a@comcast.net

Love those prints ! Got one myself.