Posts from The Ringo Kid in thread „Sketch Prizes“

Quote from Hawkswill

Glad you got them guys. A lot of the originals I posted have been sold, but I made 50 prints of each signed and numbered. Only selling them for $10 until I get a bit of a following. Very low on them now. Am doing one for Carl of Steve McQueen all tangled up in barbed wire with his motorcycle from the Great Escape. He sent me a three foot tall poster of Duke from the top of his hat to the tips of his boots.....will put it in my bedroom after I frame it. The wood I chose is too small....didn't know my surprise was going to be so large, so will pick something else unusual out of my supply in the shop.
Thanks again for letting me know, and if you DO frame the pics, sure would love to see a pic of them that way! HAGO, KEITH

Take a look in the last westerns watched thread. I posted about James Stewart in: The Man From Laramie and--I found somehting you will like--a nice piece of art showing the General being dragged by a rope. Check it out and lemme know what you thunk? ;-))

Quote from Hawkswill

Hi Kid, Thanks.

It is from Hondo.......Hondo is staked out and Vittorio is about to put hot coals in his hand to make him tell where the soldiers are. This is just before he gets released and does the knife fight with Silva. Terry Wilson, (Bill Hawks of Wagon Train fame) doubles Duke in the fight......Terry is known for his knife fights! When Hondo first throws Silva over him, Terry is the one in the scene. Duke is in for a few close ups, but Terry does most all of the fight.

Too bad about your art......most of mine got sold, LOL! KP

Thanks Keith and on both things ;-)) Hondo is one of my top most favorite of Duke movies and Michael Pate is my top most favorite Actor from Australia--well-next to Flynn anyway ;-)) Eating -rather--drinking lunch today--I watched PT-109 again and Pate was Evans--the Aussie Coast-watcher--who eventually got Kennedy rescued.

Still reeling from the Gastro-problem. Im fighting just to be online this long. Im HOPING to be better tomorrow so I cna try getting more pics posted ;-)) I wanted to also try calling you today but not feeling good enough yet. I hate having these probs.

The new Duke art is nice. Which earlier movie is it from?

Thank you Keith and I wish I still had them. Two others I did and in color--were war scenes. One was several Marines during the Boxer Rebellion--fighting off hordes of Boxers--who were unseen, and another was a Vietnam bunker scene. You saw two G.I.s in came--inside a bunker looking out and one had his hand on the depressor button that was to set off a Claymore mine. I really liked the detail I had in this one. One of them even had a pack of Marloboro Reds Cigarettes in a band around his helmet and a small oil bottle and he was smoking one of cigs. I cant remember the name of the comicbook series I got the otherone from but this one was from an issue of Nam.

Hi Keith and I must say more than just a job well done. These are great and the characters are easy to "see". I used to draw and got pretty good at doiung pencils and using ink pens. I would then "paint" the proper color in using crayon markers. I had about 20 drawings but--they all get damaged somehow around 15 or so years ago--and I guess someone in the fmaily threw them out. Two I was particularly poud of were two of my pencil drawings. One showed a highly detailed Spiderman swinging using his web and I did the art to look like Todd McFarlane's art for Spiderman Nr 1. Mine actually looked a lot like his but still missed a bit. The other pencil sketch I ded was the cover to: The Amazing Spiderman Nr 129--featuring the first appeanence of The Punsiher.

Amazing Spiderman issue nr 129:

Spiderman Nr 1:

Others I did ere of Jonah Hex. One I titled, Clint Eastwood IS Jonah Hex.
This Hex cover was one fo about 4 I did:

One very similar to this one was another:

One I cant find that shows him being shot and falling off a balcony through a rail-was my best of the lot.
This is another I did:

See why he reminds me of Clint Eastwood who would have been perfect to portray Hex.

I also TRIED to draw Sgt. Rock but never could master that character. I did one like this:
Cant find the exact image but much like this none. I never could ghet his face and hands correct:

Did another like this one:

Joe Kubert and Russ Heath are my favorite Sgt. Rock artists. I cant seem to find any hardly any Heath stuff posted on the net--which is a darn shame.
This is a good example of a Russ Heath cover. I love his stuff.