Bob Hall

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ABOUT THE AVATAR: My wife, Holly, is very artistic. She sews, makes jewelery, draws, and paints. Here, she did a Corel PaintShop Pro X4 enhancement of a photo taken in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA, recently. Posted 3.13.12

As an artist, I enjoy painting and photographing segments of rural life. Country living became a new world for me back in the sixties when we moved from Chicago, Illinois to East Tennessee. Our family relocated to a farm on Buttermilk Road, just outside of Kingston. I played in the fields, worked in tobacco and hay, plus made corncob pipes for, uh, fun of course. Although I was born a city boy, I converted to a country boy with no problems at all. Country living back then created a lot of good memories for me.”

“My RedBubble site is geared for the rural enthusiast. So, if you like country scenes, old rusty vehicles, near ancient barns and houses, country singers, horses, etc., then you ought to feel right at home, here!”

I’m glad you’re here…

Some of the tools I use when venturing out into my hobbies are…

I use a Canon Power Shot A630 for photography and Corel PaintShop Pro X4 for editing.

cartoon source… HeyOverbey’s Social Media Strategy

PAINTING: I paint in acrylics, pastels, and charcoal.
When painting in acrylics, I use some of the major names in the business… WINSTON & NEWTON, GRUMBACHER, and Liquitex. When painting with pastels, I use Artist’s Soft Pastels, by Gallery. GRAYSTONE, by Gallery is what I use for charcoal work.

The thing not mentioned much on RB: I have a small local art business at home. I do local shows when possible. I have prints, matted prints, framed prints, and glass coasters of much of my art. I have small table top pictures (framed).

Also, I do specialty work for people: If a person wants a picture (that is, a picture that belongs to the person already) matted and/or framed, I can do and have done it. The most unusual job I once took on was matting and framing a Thomas Kincade 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle, very cool! In addition, I do light restoration work of both oil and acrylic paintings. Never a dull moment at the Hall house! Believe it or not, I’m employed full-time at a local healthcare facility.

USING MY IMAGES: Like most on RB, I use my images to sell products on this site and on zazzle. I’m planning to setup a myspace site as home base for all my online activity. This includes offering my home products afore mentioned.

Oh, one other thing about painting… Due to my eclectic activities in visual arts, plus working full-time, I complete, I’d say, three or four paintings a year. That’s par for the course, I guess. Maybe when I retire, I’ll spend more time at the easel… just maybe, lol!

BOB AND THE GANG

BOB’S MOST POPULAR PAINTING ON RB with 32 comments, 9 favoritings, and 1444 views.
Posted 1/5/2012

Country Church 2

Listen to country music on the FROG station, WIVK, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, on this window… open a new window, go to my RB site and visit awhile. Enjoy!

SPOTLIGHT is about featuring rural art located
in museums and galleries around the world.

Our current spotlight is on the oil painting, Water Lilies by French artist, Claude Monet, 1840-1926. Water Lilies is housed at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri and is brought to us through the website, Art Museums of the World,

BOB’S MOST POPULAR PHOTOGRAPH ON RB with 75 comments, 21 favoritings, and 975 views.
Posted 1/5/2012

Check out my Zazzle Site …

ON PAINTING
Painting, for me, has never been a hobby. It is not relaxing – writers and athletes would say the same. Since I was twelve, I have always painted unless I am interrupted. It is a labour, but it is what I do . . . a labour of love let us say. – Robert Bateman, Canadian artist.

ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. – Ansel Adams

BOB’S FEATURED ARTISTS

The following artists are a few of my favorites from around these parts…

Duane Keiser is a unique painter. He is not a rural artist as those above, nor an artist from this region. Duane Keiser is known for creating a painting a day, as his blog is called. Keiser’s work is really amazing. Check it out and see why I say this.

I’ve started a new segment on ArtbyBob called, Redneckology.

PURPOSE OF SEGMENT…
… Redneckology is about all things redneck. I find the study of rednecks to be quite interesting. I guess that’s because I are one,… well… not 100% redneck, but maybe 1/4% to 50% redneck, so I’m told. That means if rednecks owned a string of rest-stops across the state of Tennessee, I’d qualify to claim my share of the profits from the snack machines, pay phones, and pinball machines of each rest-stop. Yes sir, I’m in some mighty fine company.

NEW INFO. (posted 4/16/12)

One thing we can say about rednecks is that they can be colorful characters in the way they present themselves, dress, carry on, and talk. This segment is about redneck vocabulary and terminology. The redneck language is quite interesting, and, at times, humorous. A good trait demonstrated by most rednecks is a sense of humor. We find this kind of humor presented by entertainers like Jeff Foxworthy, in his, You might be a redneck if…, one liners. The old TV variety show, Hee Haw was about country and redneck humor. The show’s duration lasted from 1969–1993. Country folk and rednecks know how to laugh at themselves and not take life too seriously. We’ve all been born and we’ll all die… the ride between the two can be taken lightheartedly or dead seriously. As much as possible, I prefer the first.

Here’s just a little of redneck terminology…

BARD – verb. Past tense of the infinitive “to borrow.”
Usage: “My brother bard my pickup truck.”

JAWJUH – noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
Usage: “My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck.”

MUNTS – noun. A calendar division.
Usage: “My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd from him in munts.”

RANCH – noun. A tool.
Usage: “I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh
bard a few munts ago.”

ALL – noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: “I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck.”

BAHS – noun. A supervisor.
Usage: “If you don’t stop reading these Southern words and git back to work, your bahs is
gonna far you!”
TIRE – noun. A tall monument.
Usage: “Lord willing and the creeks don’t rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in
Paris sometime.”

HOT – noun. A blood-pumping organ.
HOD – adverb. Not easy.
Usage: “A broken hot is hod to fix.”

RETARD – Verb. To stop working.
Usage: “My granpaw retard at age 65.”

TARRED – adverb. Exhausted.
Usage: “I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred.”

RATS – noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: “We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats.”

LOT – adjective. Luminescent.
Usage: “I dream of Jeanie in the lot -brown hair.”

FARN – adjective. Not local.
Usage: “I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed … must be from some farn country.”

DID – adjective. Not alive.
Usage: “He’s did, Jim.”

EAR – noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).
Usage: “He can’t breathe … give ’em some ear!”

BOB WAR – noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: “Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.”

JU-HERE – a question.
Usage: “Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys’ coach Jimmy Johnson recently toured the
University of Alabama?”

HAZE – a contraction.
Usage: “Is Bubba smart?” “Nah … haze ignert.”

SEED – verb, past tense.
VIEW – contraction: verb and pronoun.
Usage: “I ain’t never seed New York City … view?”

HEAVY DEW – phrase. A request for action.
Usage: “Kin I heavy dew me a favor?”

Here’s another good ole redneck song: Charlie Daniels singing, Long Haired Country Boy

…hope this wasn’t TMI, LOL!

All of the above golden information comes from the Redneck Dictionary

[…I respect all copyright laws and will give rightful credit and recognition for humor and such as used in this segment. Illustrations of a redneck in today’s segment is my creation and not knowingly borrowed from anyone else. Posted 2.14.12]

BOB’S PAINTING WITH MOST HITS ON RB AT 1,444
Posted 1/5/2012
Country Church 2

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Posted 1/12/2012

Studebaker Truck: Put Out to Pasture …. ’til the Next Ride

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