Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Marty, You Are Needed...

To fix this very bad statue of Lucille Ball in the town of Celoron, New York!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/04/travel/lucille-ball-statue-feat/index.html

Also, here is a self-promotional piece of a friend of mine, Paul Turnbaugh. He and I went to art school together and lifted weights together.  His favorite super-hero was the Hulk.  Paul was (is) monstrously, preternaturally, STRONG, one of those guys who could leg press a thousand pounds. And his artwork is beautiful.  He does a lot of nature paintings - Robert Bateman-esque.  Check out his work at his "Wild Heartland" Facebook page

 https://www.facebook.com/WildHeartlandArt?fref=nf

6 comments:

JMG said...

I saw all the hoopla over this. What an ABOMINATION! Looks more like Alfred E. Neuman than Lucy.

Davis Chino said...

I saw this too--was just talking to a friend about doing a live sculpture workshop online for his teaching community...I suggested we do a Lucy!

MrGoodson2 said...

Wow. So off the mark.

MrGoodson2 said...

Were you lifting with this artist when you hurt your back back in the 90s, Tom?

How is the back?

Tom Moon said...

No, Paul and I lifted together back in the seventies when we were both in the Bay Area. My back is very good these days, though I have to be ever-vigilant about stressing it too much or in the wrong way.

MrGoodson2 said...

That Lucy is just a sculptor that has a ways to go on everything. Clothing folds are bad. The hands- bad. Just needs more practice at injecting life into sculpture.

And of course zero likeness. Might as well be Lucy's friend Ethel.