Marty David images: The world I experience; with color, and form.

Galatea fountain sculpture, Port Townsend work in progress.

A portrait of the Chimacum cafe 

I have to mention: I screwed up, in posting this version. I added a pie, sitting on the counter, after this painting was copied at this stage, somehow I just pulled up the wrong version. I will be sure and change this as soon as I can! 

 

 

 

 The pursuit of my passion...

 

    ...of which- said passion, of mine, is creating and sharing original images of the Olympic Peninsula, and other places, where I travel. Some of my recent works have been statements, or explorations of the world I experience, rendered with color, and form, and we're displayed, and some sold, here and there, mostly around the Puget Sound area. 

A painting of a mountain Biker, rendered by my hand, that sold out of a Waterstreet, Port Townsend gallery in the summer of 2022,

 

 

I created the piece, using a variation of an experimental technique that I refer to as colors blast.  This painting, that was sold, already, is now being featured on a print, and greeting card. Interestingly a gallery in downtown Port Townsend sold the original painting, within two weeks from the time of its premier, and paid to have it framed, and shipped it to Chicago. Unfortunately sparks flew from the owner, and curator, when I asked questions about that transaction, since I had only received a minuscule amount for the painting, and I knew that the framing, and shipping costs, alone, would dwarf what I had been paid for the actual piece of art.  an inquiry by me followed; and very shortly after my inquiry about the transaction, that gallery and I discontinued working together, over disagreements about some communication, or transparency issues, or an assumed accusation that I was being un-trusting, as an associate artist of the gallery, and, I guess, deemed by the curator to be problematic, and unjustifiably accusatory, or questioning, in my expressing, any desire at all to know any of the details of the sale, that must have certainly been substantial in the bottom line, compared to the minuscule amount that I was paid for the original art piece. I really do thank that Gallery downtown for or the opportunity that resulted from getting to have my artwork there, at a Gallery with a fairly high profile or at least prime real estate- store front, and I had to decide that I am now moving on. 

   My being able to see that my art could sell in that sort of situation of high end exposure was invaluable, and confirmed what I always believed, and that was always doubted and turned aside by galleries, in the past that commanded high end demographic locations- rejections for their own reasons, of which I can't be sure. That my work would sell, almost immediately, in a

situation that it would receive top billing, or prominent placement in a top notch real estate location- of high profile venue was something tat I always knew would be proven as soon as one of my works would be given such opportunity. So it was something that proved itself to be true, when I was able to finally have it tested. 

 

  

 

Gary team roped with a world pro, and I met the famous Rodeo bullfighter, Leon Coffee

 

Inspired by memories of my brother is this dry erase sketch. My brother Gary won the all around saddle, at least once. To do that he had to hang on to a bronc eight seconds with no foul, and either catch a cow in his loop and milk it and pour the milk out of the bottle in front of a judge in a certain amount of time, and/or rope from his horse, going full speed, and get off and somehow and tie a calf so we'll all in a limited time, so that it could not get up, and/or team role a steer with a partner. All in one rodeo appearance. He bested the Bronco, and at least two of the other three, on at least one occasion to make him worthy to get drug through the mud, or dunked in the cattle troughs by envious and celebratory fellow cowhands immediately after the awards ceremony. My brother, and he was still a butthead even after winning the all around. But even as buttheaded as he was, he was still my brother. And I'll always be proud of my all around cowboy brother and an glad he won even if he was a butthead. Because he was my brother and I wanted him to win, and he did. Awesome.
 

 

 

 

I met the famous Rodeo bullfighter, Leon Coffee, featured in this clipping, while I was bucking out on bareback string rodeo horses- practicing bronc riding at Bobby Steiner's weekly bucking out of his pro- personal  practice arena just outside of Austin. Stiener was the biggest pro rodeo contractor in the district, and maybe the region. More about this meeting the great Leon Coffee will follow.

     Here are results from some of my latest drawing drills. The drawing drills are a series of drawing that I will do in the course a day, in a given period of time between twelve minutes, up to an hour and a half, and usually I'm trying to finish rendering a subject between under a minute, and five minutes, if the drawing involves more than one figure, or subject. 

   A common practice, that I make a point of, is to do the series of at least 3 drawings on various sized surfaces. Besides the moonwalk image, at the beginning of my post; here are some of the latest:

Included also, here: one I did of a very appreciative subject on the street, one day.

 And here are some things most people don't know about my past.  :

Agriculture has been a subject, in my art. Many people know that I grew up on a small farm, in Kitsap county, in the area of what was referred to around our district, as the central Kitsap area. There was no mall in Silverdale, in my youth. The district where I lived was either rural, or small town.

 

My name is mentioned in the beginning of the tally, of contestants' placement in a Rodeo in Kerrville, TX., in this page clipped from a regional publication on the sport.

I kept my promise to myself, to win the first rideo bareback bronc riding contest that I entered, when I got to Texas.

My foreman at 3-J Grain Co. Buda, Texas, USA

Gerry.  I had to run after him whenever he would take me to my my next work task area, to receive my instructions.  Gerry was the first real foreman, on a real job, that I ever had. He had started by out in that mill as a young man, probably, as a not legal citizen. Then he would probably retire from there. I would not be sticking around to see him get his watch. One time after we unloaded the hundred lb bags of meal and stacked them to the ceiling and I had to get atop of the pile and move them the last few feet myself- and action that made me see stars, the exertion was so great, bag after bag, almost impossible to budge, but no one else could do it, so there I was.  Gerry told me I should go down to Galveston and get a job as a porter for 18 bucks and hour.  that would be the equivalent, of 55 bucks and hour- roughly, in comparison to today's dollar value.  Easy for him to say, he didn't feel the way my body felt after doing that horrendous job.  I weighed about a hundred seventy two pounds. And i couldn't see myself beefing up, and becoming a muscle man, just so i could make 55 bucks an hour unloading shipments all day.  A few months later a great blast ripped though the port of Galveston loading dock facilities when someone standing in the wrong place lit a match, or flicked a lighter. Scores were injured, or killed. They were supposed to tell you when you started working in a place like this about the high flammability of the meal dusty air.  No one did that for me. Fortunately I chewed Copenhagen Smokeless tobacco, and was making a comment about a wooden shovel one day, and then they told me.  Good thing I had not been a smoker.

I had plans to go to a college, but then wanted to experience some real world, so when I was I was invited to accompany a friend with his mom to Texas, where it was offered, that he and I would get a chance to try our hand at working on a construction outfit, I accepted.

I packed my rodeo roughstock riding gear. 

That's right, one of the activities of my youth, had been rodeo. I completed in some semi-pro, and pro rodeos, while in Texas.

After not long with the construction outfit, they were shut down by the IRS for some misunderstanding, or failure to pay tax. I then immediately signed onto a labor gig, with a feed mill.

The last thing in the world I needed to add to my resume was working on a grain dock, unloading trucks, and shoveling cattle feed, and grains and seeing to their loading, and unloading, and movement around the complex.  I had already put in considerable time in the wonderful and physically demanding aspects of agriculture works. I had started working other farms, at thirteen, and had done occasional gig work, unloading hay trucks, or 'haying' fields. There was nothing for me to prove, and it would be a step backwards from being an apprentice in a skilled labor operation.

My motive was the simple fear of living the rest of my life thinking that I had returned home beaten with my tail tucked between, my legs, because I couldn't negotiate a difficult circumstance on my own. 

Pride won the day. 

Or. Well; whatever- at least it was the dominant force that pushed me into taking the feed mill job, and let me continue the Texas Adventure. Whether that really paid off as a "win", is still a question mark.  I suppose it was, because, maybe I will be able to weave the experience into some of my illustrated novel tales that I will be spinning.  We'll see.

Here are some pics, and some explanations, it little blurbs, about the events, maybe, and also some other photos of chapters big my life that most people are probably unaware of:

In part of my youth I completed in Rodeos, I was able to compete in some Rodeos that were held locally, and even occasionally in the next district, if I was so inclined.  Traveling hundreds of miles in Texas, even around central Texas, is much easier than similar trips up north where geaography poses poses mental fatigue challenges after awhile behind the wheel.  In most of Texas, everything is flat. It was nothing for people to regularly attend events around two hundred miles away, and return the same day.

I'll cover a bit about my military training experiences, and helicopter logging stint, in one of my next entries.  I hope you found something interesting in that blurb about my Texas experience, in my youth.

Airbrushed art wearables at PT Shirt Co., and Oly Peninsula Outlets: also; More graphics -designs :Email martydeey@gmail.com 3603026354

Wearable art- Crow themed ballcaps

Available, often at the PT Shirt company, in Port Townsend.   

Or contact me at Martydeey@gmail.com , to place order.

Taco Racing Team -Wearable Art 

Retail: $22.00

 Wholesale: (1 dozen min order) $13.00

 

Farming Dreams -Olympic Peninsula

 $25.00

 Available by order, from, me, or purchased from PT Shirt Company- location: Waterstreet, Port Townsend.  Maybe call ahead, and ask about availability, of your size.  A mixed media airbrushed original, combined with direct to fabric printing of my line artwork, derived from my original airbrush work.  Each shirt is an original.  Inspired by my three summers  working at Shorts farm, in Chimacum, before the tragedy of Roger losing the rest of his sight. And my own experience growing up on a small farm, in the Seabeck- Central Kitsap County area.  

Prices as generally are most often offered by me and local distributors are listed in this post: 

Wholesale purchasers prices will generally be about forty percent less, or even more discount.  

  Generally speaking different colors of shirts shirts will be twenty seven dollars for standard Tee shirts in color.  White will be three dollars less, and Black will be a dollar less, than the colors, or shirts in middle tones. Shirt styles that vary from the standard tee shirt can generally add between eight and eighteen dollars to the cost of a regular shirt.  Most likely these more special type of shirts will be procurable by special order from me. and I'll give you an example -If I airbrushed the Wild Things -Oly Pen shirt on one of the specialty shirts, like a 'hoodie': The cost of the shirt could be as much as Twenty dollars more than the Same image on a black, plain tee shirt, although that is not likely, since I frequently shop the web for the best qualities, and prices, and styles to be able to pass those premiums along to you.  3xL shirts must add about 1, or two dollars, based at my present prices that I commonly receive from Manufacturers.  Most shirts that I will stock retail establishments with will likely be the common style of tee shirts, with occasional offerings to them of my wearable art on special wearable clothing, like hoodies and Sweatshirts, or long- instead of short sleeve, and other shirts with more premium, or specialt quality fabric.  The most sure way to get one of these more special order, or individual tailored style of shirts is going to be to contact me directly, or visit PT Shirt Company, on Waterstreet, at 940 Waterstreet, in Port Townsend.  My email Address is:  martydeey@gmail.com ,for anyone interested in putting in an order.  Feel free to put in any contact info in your email to me, that might help me get through to you in a mode that works for you.  You might mention, if you prefer emails, or texts, or direct phone calls, and if you have a preferred time to be contacted, please include that.  

I am from here on- in this post, then going to present images of some of my shirts, and then mention the price that they can be purchased from me, or, at the ballpark price, that they can most likely be purchased from PT Shirt Co., at 940 Waterstreet, Port Townsend.

This may take me a few days to accomplish this whole task- thank you for your patience!

Wild Things Tracks: Twenty six Dollars.

Bee stripes (shirt only): $ 25.00 -retail

Wild Oly-Pen Tracks with badger prints: $25.00 -retail

A quick side note about A-frame signs:

(MORE SHIRTS BELOW)

Sandwich Board sign by David

Sample 1: Petrick Lock and Safe,

 Located at Kively Ctr, 

in Port Hadock, WA

 NOW; MORE SHIRTS:

 (Progressions in the production of this just featured sign can be seen at the ending of post.)

Psychedelic Pirate tee: 30.00

 

 

 

My handy work on the KEYS MADE sign, made for display, at Kivley Center near the beginning of Oak Bay rd, as a traveler would be leaving Hadlock towards Marrowstone, and Pt Ludlow.

Wild Things with Cat Eyes: $30.00 -on regular black tee.

Also to be a featured in my wearable art this year will be some wearable art items that will have an impression done by silk screening the accents of the image on as the base, then the personalized art airbrushing process will follow that first image impression, designed by me: so that the finished product will be a mixed media piece.  I will either be doing the silk screen impression myself, or hiring a local silk screen/ serigraphy expert to do the art.  That producer of the serigraph will be posted then on this site. Also I will be doing a few shirts that will be produced entirely using silk screen process that will be a single color silk screen print on a wearable item, and the art originating from art done from my hand. Just as you see here; with this image of the 67 Mustang Fastback GT, to be printed locally, or by Me.Mustang '67 GT Fastback: Prices pending Not presently in stock.

Fort Warden: $ 28.00

 EMERALD CITY: $28.00

Wild Oly Pen Tracks with Cat Eyes-specialty shirt: $32

Bee costume shirt with bee kind image: $32.00

Selling already (again)- and coming to locations near you, very soon:

DISPLAYED Soon at the PT Shirt Company, and also these locations, 

WILL BE:

 **** THE NEW LINE OF ***

 ***  ORIGINAL AIRBRUSH ART TEEs images***

As to whether the tees will be sold at Aldrich's, as were my face masks- offered there in the past- I'm not yet able to confirm.

   Psychedelic Bee $26.00

     Posting this pic of 4 shirts delivered in early July, of '23 to someone who recently retired from the marine trades, and has patronized my art business in the past:

 I produce these wearable art shirts for $26.00 each original. And also images, of two other wearable art -Marine Trades shirts, that were produced, and sold by me.

 

 

The farming dreams wearable art pieces are not being offered yet. They will eventually be offered, as soon as I work out some production issues.

Price: (presently not available.)

Froggy Farm Dreams will not feature My name scrawled multiple times.  This is just an internet security measure.  This wearable art image shirt will probably soon be made available as a reproduction.  Ill post the latest about this, as soon as i get it. That will be decided soon.

     Finally, if this froggy farm themed original wearable does come out instead as a reproduction, then it may be available at some  retail outlets, and I'll post information about those places. I could still end up offering this shirt as an original airbrushed art image, but I haven't yet convinced myself that I can produce original airbrushed shirts with this image theme efficiently enough to continue to offer those even thru me, except  by special order.  So here's some others.

Bee Kind (basic); retail:  $22.00 

Wholesale (Dozen Min order); $13.00

 

Also, recently- still being sold at Aldrich's Market,  in the Uptown neighborhood of Port Townsnd, were: 
ORIGINAL ART FACE MASKS, products by Marty David. There may still be some of those available there.

5 design choices.

     Stay healthy, everyone.

 

Tee shirt washing instructions:

Washing airbrushed wearable art: (skip pre-soak if item is not heavily soiled, or stained). Using pre-wash soak: seven minutes baking soda- 1 tablespoon per gallon in room temperature water and then light agitation and kneading the soda water through the fabric for 1 minute. Quick rinse, then transfer into the soap-water solution. Best soap to be used for washing a wearable art item will be a sudsing liquid hand soap according to my experience, and research. Agitating and kneading for 90 seconds in room temperature. If heavily soiled increase agitation time. If some staining or soiling remains. Repeat using 1 or two drops dish soap on stain spots, -especially grease, and use warm water for heavier soiling, but only at greater risk of decreasing the life of the wearable art image. The same goes for increasing the strength of the soap and the vigor of the agitation in the washing process. Using the process recommended will make it likely that the image retains at least 90 percent of its original sharpness and saturation after 8 washings, at minimum.   Send to martydeey@gmail.com  any questions about washing, or other issues involving a purchased airbrush original art piece by Marty David.