The Voord

7 hours ago, NelsonAI said:

The paste up can be trimmed with an exacto knife, (essentially a razor blade with a long handle), around the shoe. 

 

I was thinking the same thing myself.  Only problem here is that you need to know the exact placement of what artwork lies underneath the paste-up , otherwise you might end up with a revealed overspill of a first-attempt foot extending outside of the corrected version.

I'd definitely want the designer stubble removed (white-out?), as no self-respecting PS should ever bee seen in public like that.

8 minutes ago, cstojano said:

My 2 cents, waiting to see if you can live with a <insert anything> is like needing to go to a second viewing of a movie to convince yourself you like it.

Blade Runner 2049.  Definitely going to have to give that one a second viewing.  Not to convince myself I liked it.  Just to catch up on all the parts I fell asleep to . . . seriously.

Jeff Hawke is great; you should also check out the story reprints as they're really well-written and entertaining.  My favourite JH story is 'Survival'.  The artwork's especially good on that one, for example:

5 hours ago, J.Sid said:

So the next question is: 

Would you rather have the artist give you the commission with the f**ked up foot? 

Or have a screwy looking paste-up covering the foot?

 

 

Or PS with or without the designer stubble?

2 hours ago, Twanj said:

yeh kinda looks like he has the amish beard

No self-respecting Phantom Stranger should ever be without his shaving kit . . .

53 minutes ago, Rick2you2 said:

I like the piece enough to keep it, but every time I see it, I'll get annoyed. 

Sadly, that's the long term problem you now have should you let things stand.

7 minutes ago, stinkininkin said:

That's your take.  Apples and oranges.  I stand by what I said 100%.

Me too.

6 minutes ago, stinkininkin said:

I think with commissions, you take your chances and as long as he delivered on time and made a good faith effort at meeting your criteria, it's time to move on.  Being a buyer does not give one the license to be an art director after the fact (again, as long as the artist makes that good faith effort).  There are inherent risks with commissions, and many on this board have had great successes.  I've only tried commissions twice and they were disasters both times.  I've decided getting commissions are not my thing.  But that's just me.

 

Not so sure about the highlighted point you make, Scott.  If you were employing a tradesperson to perform work on your home, you'd have every right to scrutinize and challenge the end-result if it didn't meet desired expectations.

At first glance I thought the PS was supposed to be wearing some kind of metal jaw appliance (then I read your descriptive text).

The foot paste-up is oddly-shaped and intrusive.  He should have cut around the shape of the foot, making more of an effort to make it blend in.

Nice enough commission, but the above observations would irritate and detract for me.

Sorry, you did ask . . .

2 hours ago, glendgold said:

If I were to go out on a limb and guess, I'd say that wall might have featured Avengers 23, FF 40, Thor 122 and/or Strange Tales 138.

Great eye, Bruce. 

 

 

The FF 40, THOR 122 and STRANGE TALES 138 certainly exist (no idea about the AVENGERS 23), but not in the photograph, so I guess you're taking into account known existing covers from this time-frame to imagine what else might have been up there on display?

The cover to ASM # 30 certainly still exists and was up on CAF at one time.

16 hours ago, williamhlawson said:

Wow, that FF 58 recreation is ridiculously good.  How backed up is Bruce?  Time frames?  Is this price range a special price for friends and artists?  Just wow.  Sorry, I gush, but that is incredibly well done.  And the giclees are...to quote a friend..."I say thee NAY!"....

 

Far as I'm aware Bruce's current waiting list extends well into the new year.  Price range was pretty solid during the time-frame of about 18 months when he was performing re-creations for me.  He's on CAF, so all you really need to do is shoot him a message of enquiry.  He's a well-disciplined artist and will usually keep to any time-frame he advises.  A small deposit will likely be requested from new clients.

Link to my CAF cover re-creation gallery by Bruce McCorkindale featuring a total of 27 covers:

http://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=169364

Here's Bruce doing Ditko (in which I requested the splash page 1 art transposed as a cover image):

On ‎12‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 5:36 PM, vodou said:

No kiddin'. I can't stand an otherwise excellent original with amateur (at best) trade dress and lettering. That stuff ruins the piece for me. I won't name names but the list of great artists (but horrible letterers) and happen to do commission and recreations is very long...pretty much all of 'em

I think Art Adams does a great job however. Not a cheap commission though. But I've only seen a handful of 'em, maybe some bad ones too by Art?

It's a funny thing, actually, the 'need' for trade dress. It's clearly a collector-thing, not an art thing (excepting letters, logo and type designers etc...who are very much artists...cue Gaspar Saladino!) I'm sure many artists are really bummed when the request comes in with the trade dress too requirement. I'm sure they -better than all of us- know that's not their strength.

I think most collectors are purists . . . in the sense they want to see things like cover artworks complete with all the logo and text elements present . . .  just as they remember from seeing on the comic-books.  I can see how artists doing re-creations would probably be irritated by the need to take on the additional skills of a letterer (and, in most cases, failing badly with their efforts, for obvious reasons).  Absolutely.   Nothing worse than seeing a nicely re-created cover illustration with badly-lettered text elements.  Totally ruins the piece for me.

I hate to say this . . . and apologies to anyone on this forum who owns such things . . . but some of the later re-created covers by Kirby (whose involvement as the actual penciler is now open to question) . . . and inked by D**k Ayers (at a time in his twilight years when the ravages of old age had taken a toll on his abilities to successfully re-visit the prime work of younger years) are painful to look at.  You get very shaky inking coupled with less-than-satisfactory attempts at lettering.   They're not the 'original' originals, yet they command big bucks (sure, I get the reasons why collectors would want them, even if they don't appeal to me)?  To my mind, they're even worse than nicely re-created cover illustrations let down by poor lettering, as here you're getting serviceable pencils + shaky inking + lousy lettering.  For me, I'd want to compare the re-creation against the actual published cover . . . and if it didn't stack-up, I'd be hugely disappointed.   Would I want to own such things?  Probably not.

Tom Chantrell's double-bill movie poster painting for THE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS & BARRACUDA (1978) . . .

Currently at 91 members and growing!

Lots of previously unseen (by me) original paintings now being posted on my FB group, so worth joining to see what's out there in collector circles!

I'm encouraging For Sale posts and already a few items have been made available to group members.

Link to my FB group (anyone here welcome, even if you don't actually collect movie art . . . it should all prove interesting as most of us collect OA and like movies):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/131047770909401/

12 minutes ago, stinkininkin said:

Never been a recreation fan, especially the exact line for line variety, but that FF 58 is remarkable.  Is it hand lettered too?  I might also add that $200-250 is absurdly low for the amount of time and expertise that would go into something like that (but maybe it reflects demand?).  I don't know the answer, but if this guy is doing a lot of recreations, he absolutely needs to substantially raise his prices. 

The lettering is mostly printed directly onto the artboards (with touch-ups where necessary).  For me, that's the best way to go as hand-lettering is a real skill in its own right that few artists appear to possess.  Bruce is never short of work and has a long waiting list.  Yeah, totally agree about the prices, though complaining about them being too low is not a route most of us want to go

I was never much of a recreation fan myself until I discovered Bruce's work.  No real substitute for the original originals, of course, but I doubt that a lot of the early Marvel silver age covers still exist . . . and if they did, they'd be out of the price range of us mere mortals.

13 hours ago, Chrysaetos said:

You are all great for taking time to answer to my query. I am at the moment flying back from Singapore and after the jet lag effect i will post photos of the canvases in question as well as details about them that i have received. I would also be interested tin learning more about OA and commissioning someone to "reproduce" a cover of comics in my possession . As far as Kirby is concerned a short research gave me only original ink pages of comics and no covers...at least yet, guess i have to "surf" the net more.....

thank you all and i will get back again with new material......

Prices you've quoted on those signed giclee prints are insane . . . sounds like pure extortion to most of us here.

If you're interested in commissioning someone to "reproduce" covers of comics in your possession, I'd recommend Bruce McCorkindale or Doug Hazelwood - who excel at that sort of thing.  I had Bruce recreate for me a series of classic Marvel covers.  You'd be looking at a ball-park figure of around $200 - 250 per recreation, which can vary slightly (depending on the level of detail).  Here's an example of Bruce's work from my collection:

1 hour ago, SquareChaos said:

I hope you continue to share here, but will understand why if you don't! 

No intention of stopping my posts here!  The FB group is just a project to reach out to other collectors that are unlikely to frequent these forums.  

I've decided to create a Facebook group concentrating specifically on Movie Poster original artwork.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/131047770909401/

Members from the OA collecting community are most welcome to join.

Those of you who take an active interest in this art form are encouraged to share examples from their collection.  Wants and For Sale items are encouraged, though I reserve the right to delete suspicious posts.

Early days, and the group is something I hope to be building upon in coming weeks, but it's something I want to promote and encourage.  Even if you don't actively collect movie poster art, and bearing in mind most of us have a love for the movies, no reason why you can't enjoy the art form.

Hope to see some of you there, thanks.

Terry Doyle

New in today . . . original movie poster painting for the 1965 comedy, BOEING BOEING, starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis.  This was created for the Spanish release of the movie.  Although I prefer UK and USA paintings, I liked the whimsical nature of the artwork (and besides, it came at a steal!).

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1438609

The above link will provide access to a large photo of the artwork, together with a write-up and additional images.

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13 minutes ago, MagnusX said:

if you don't succeed the first time try try again!
The price for this is higher but...
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56 minutes ago, comix4fun said:

Free Shipping for us Yanks!!! 

I only live the other side of the pond . . . not the other side of the universe!  Ah well, this 'grail of grails' is not meant to be for me . . .