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Its 2:10am Monday morning. We just got home from a long week at the Nevada County Fair. Our booth, "Shake, Rattle & Roll" featured our "rattle" can posters. Our posters resemble the style and techniques that Bob Ross uses on his Public access show. (I know, He's dead)
For the whole week, we would arrive at 9:am, and leave at, get this; anywhere from 11:pm to 12:30a The people of Butler Amusements were very kind to us, they even bought some of our paintings. These Carneys are some of the nicest people, a close knit family, sort of like; Letterheads. Most of them needed a shave, and all of them needed a shower. No teeth. Dirty clothes. Rode hard, all for that almighty dollar.
Who am I, that I should talk? I was after that same dollar. On average, we used about ten cans of spray paint a day to produce about thirty pintings. In the beginning, when I first started all I would do is outer`space scenes, but now, we can do alot more. Complete paintings, just like you know who, Bob Ross.
We found Nemo! One of our posters featured an aquatic scene with, none other than, Nemo. We thought that with the new "Finding Nemo" cartoon from Disney, we could cash in on some of their sales. I had never even heard of a fargin clown fish, let alone seen the movie. I would hear from the small kids, "Look Mommy, its Nemo, and I would say, "We found Nemo."
...to be continued "must sleep"
"in the heart of gold country..."
-------------------- Richard Bustamante Signs in the Pines www.signsinthepines.com Posts: 781 | From: Nevada City, California | Registered: Nov 1998
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I can relate!!!! I'm gearing up for my 25th year at the Eastern States Exposition. Hrs are 10am to 10pm.....for 17 days. I have made some wonderfull friendships (and customers) with very talented entertainers as well as carneys from all over the world. 1,250,000 people attend...makes my whole year!
Joe, Makin Chips and Havin Fun!
-------------------- Joe Cieslowski Connecticut Woodcarvers Gallery P.O.Box 368 East Canaan CT 06024 jcieslowski@snet.net 860-824-0883 Posts: 2345 | From: East Canaan CT 06024 | Registered: Nov 2001
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Some of you real old timers may remember the great Duke Ash who spent his lifetime traveling with the circus and carnivals.
I had the privilege of meeting Duke back in 1954. He decorated circus wagons and painted some of the wonderful pictorials on the canvas drops for carnival side shows. Besides being an extremely talented sign artist, he was a wonderful person who was willing to share his knowledge with other sign people. He lived his life to the fullest. It's a shame he is not alive today as he would surely be a wealth of knowledge in the Letterhead community.
-------------------- Jerry Mathel Retired Grants Pass, Oregon signs@grantspass.com Posts: 916 | From: Grants Pass, OR USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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As Jerry knows, I also knew Duke Ash who last worked at Deggeler Attractions in Stuart Florida. His work for pictorials and animals was unreal. After his death from cancer, his replacement was taken over by Michael Saint, my long time friend and business partner in everything from racecars to sharing a castle in the 60's right up to working for both Conklin shows and Deggeler. We worked the Canadian show circuit from C.N.E. to Calgery Stampede and down into the Arizona state fair and over to the Youth Fair in southern Florida. Working those circuits were fantastic and the knowledge learned from working with people can't be beat anywhere. Where else can you make that kind of money legally and the experience is priceless
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
quote:For those of you that haven't had a chance to see his "Rattle-Can ART" work, maybe we can get ya to post a few of them in the Portfolio Page........
Just click on the www.signsinthepines.com in his post above and there's a section on Spray Can Art. Very cool stuff.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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Heres a shot of our booth. It was kind of a spurr of the moment thing. If you notice the big tubes in front; that was the vacuum system I came up with. Those fumes are the only draw`back to doing these type of paintings. Oh! Heres the pic.
It was also the first time I used "Fusion". Its hard to know where it will work best. It doesn't work on raw banners, it does however, work on straight on plotter vinyl. Go figure? Heres another shot.
I still haven't recovered yet. Sunday night, actually Monday morning, we satrted to dismantel the boothe, and didn't get home till 2:00am. which rounded off the week with about 100 hours for the both of us. I'm a walking zombie these last two days. How`about another pic?
...in the heart of gold country
-------------------- Richard Bustamante Signs in the Pines www.signsinthepines.com Posts: 781 | From: Nevada City, California | Registered: Nov 1998
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