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Mike Lavallee & Rhonda Price sent in this photo of an amazing wall mural. I'll e-mail Mike and have them tell us more about this amazing project.
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That's Rob Danlord's work in New Orleans. That particular Hotel was Previously a Howard Johnson where a sniper fired at the Duncan Plaza. Rob has some real nice work all over the country.
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Now if he had asked for some free help on the project.. I would have been there in a flash!!! Beautiful work.... It makes all of us envious!!! The larger, The more inpact!!!
Great Work.
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Wow....I MIGHT be able to do that lifesize(not that good even then though)---but The 3d illusion to this piece ON THAT SCALE is, well awesome.....wow
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Yep that is rob danfords stuff...i mistakenly said the other nite that the work was by a girl that does murals in this area.....i screwed that one up...she does have some other instruments on walls around town though...shoot me it don't have strings so i didnt pay as close attention to the coonversation as i should have...
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Mike shared a photo with me of a car he just did what he calls "Real Flames" on. After viewing it, it took a while for me to start breathing again, and hours of laughing and pointing and proclaiming the combination of brilliance and humility possesed by this guy.
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Now here is some work that put's a grin on your face. After about 6 minutes of wow, and how did they do that. I am now saying I wonder how I could do that hmmm, time to play!
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Cam, The reason the clarinet is so big is that local clarinetist Pete Fountain is bigger than life. He will be making his annual stroll thru the streets of New Orleans on Feb 27 as the leader of the Famous Pete Fountains Half-Fast Marching Band. Something to do with a small local event called "Fat Tuesday". Here a link to Rob Dafford's site: www.highermind.org/murals
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Hi Guys, Rhonda and I were lucky to see that wall job at all! we had taken a wrong turn the day we headed out of town and ran smack into that job! we stopped and got out to examine it closer and on closer inspection you can see the distorted reflection of other buildings in the chrome pieces! and they really got the 3 dimentional thing down too! I wish we had gotten a chance to see more of the other walls he had done in the area. if you're ever in New Orleans they're a must see for sure! as for my Pyro-technique it really is a fairly simple process of 4 to 5 colors starting with a white base and adding transparent color over it. the trick to it is to get the movement to look right. to achive that, I photographed paper and boxes burning at night. I took 2 rolls of film and of course each shot is different so you have a lot of versions to choose from. Mike
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wow! Really nice wall job. And Mikey.....wow! I have a metallic sapphire blue truck....I want fire!!!! Dang.....email and let me know how much I should save to get that done to my truck. wow. I want flames. Dang......
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I tell ya'...just when I've done a little project and I'm feeling all puffed up I stumble across the work of a REAL artist and BAM! Brick wall.
Seriously...work like that mural and those flames is why I keep painting. One day in the far future, if I apply my talent and attend enough letterhead meets...just maybe....
Nahhh, that stuff is just toooooo good.
Thanks for the inspiration! ~Rich
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Great looking wall! Simply the BEST looking Flames I've EVER seen! Very nice Mike! I like it!
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I'm now doing them on a 50 Merc ( purple ) now. Mike
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Now those are "Real Flames"! When I started really looking at pinstriping I just could not swallow those outlined scrolly flames as "flames". Then I Herb taught me how to paint them, and I still didn't like them... on a car. They are fun to stripe, but they don't belong on a Hot Rod.
Seeing your PT's flames gives me inspiration... IT can be done.
Thanks for sharing the picture Rick!
The gonna set myself on fire side of the Moon
(mentally that is... well, some people take things so literally- I didn't want anyone throwing my butt in the snow! Burrrr)
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A few years ago, I also have seen this mural. It is "Super BAD!" BTW the name of the guy is...hate to say this Santo, cause you was the one who sent me the Times of Acadiana, his name is Robert Dafford, aka "Master of Allusion" Anyway Mike checking out the pic by Rick Sacks, those are some BAD ASSSS FLAMES!! you have it down bro, that you do. I'm sure the rest of us we'll be waiting to see the Purple '50 lead sled. Keep up the dynamite work!!
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I am very impressed! Mike, I hope you don't mind that I show your work to my students. I can't wait to see how they react to your flames...and we'll be cruising "Rob's sight" as a class project!
Mike, you are the bomb!
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well it will probably never get read, and santo you should know better! yes his name is Robert Dafford, and he does urals across the world. He's located in lafayette louisiana. he's been working in portsmouth ohio the last few summers on some incredible murals there, probably for the last 3 or 4 summers at that. there's alot of them, and they're big. lafayette is also lucky to have 4 of his murals that i can think of, and they are all phenomenal. and by the way, more flames, freakin unbelievable! by the way robert has a web site at www.dafford.com
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well if you guys want a step by step on the fire , check out the october 2000 issue of airbrush action magazine . I did one on them in that issue on a 38 chevy coupe. Mike
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Amazing work. I feel like a rank amatuer again. I had those flames up on the computer screen and my wife grabbed the fire extinguisher thinking the puter was on fire. hehehe
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Hey guys, just like Mike said, go pick up the October 2000 Issue of Airbrush Action and you will see Mike's step-by-step on that fire. He breaks it down very well and after some practice, you'll see how easy Mike's directions make it.
It does take some practice though to get it down, especially considering variables that affect real fire like wind, temperature, and even the actual material that's on fire (different materials burn different colors).
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