Kobs Tapestries
Description: A monochrome, retro-style scene displays the text 'KÖBS FAMILY FARM' prominently on the left. In the center, a two-story farm home with a porch is set against a cloudy sky. In the foreground, a field of wheat stalks fills the lower half. Below the scene, it reads 'est. 1900 KECINORAN — NEREN, SAPESHERN FOUNDER MANSAN'.
Description: HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGES can be seen at my FaceBook Page - RkobsStudio Creates https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558759285010 This is art from a linocut that I printed in 2022. This is peace and solitude. Nothing else exists except you and your buddy, alone in nature, exploring, bonding. I was experimenting with different techniques to create dark and light values of the sky and foreground. I wanted to art to tell the story and let the title "I WALK THE DOG" become a subtle part of the background.
Description: High Resolution view of the art can be seen on my FaceBook Page: RkobsStudio Creates https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558759285010 In 1932, Walter H. Beech, formerly head of the aircraft manufacturer Travel Air set up a new company, Beech Aircraft Corporation, based in Wichita, Kansas. Beech took the airplane designer Ted A. Wells from Curtiss-Wright, and the first project of the new company was the Model 17, a fast biplane with an enclosed cabin designed to meet the needs of business executives.The Beechcraft Model 17, popularly known as the “Staggerwing”, was first flown on November 4, 1932. It was used as an executive aircraft, much as the private jet is now.
Description: HIGH RESOLUTION DETAIL of the art can be viewed on my FaceBook Page - rkobsStudio Creates https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558759285010 The Gee Bees—a series of 1930s racing planes—are perhaps the most famous, or infamous, aircraft in aviation history. During the early 1930s, the Gee Bees were among the fastest planes of the day and won several prestigious National Air Races, but several pilots also lost their lives while flying them. To date, the Gee Bees have remained very controversial. While some people have labeled them “killer planes” and “the most dangerous aircraft ever built,” others admire their engineering and claim that they were just too aerodynamically advanced for the pilots of the day to handle.
Description: HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGES can be seen at my FaceBook Page - RkobsStudio Creates https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558759285010 Digital illustration composed of the Mona Lisa painting which has always fascinated me and a photo of a box of berries that I shot. I'm always looking for interesting textures and patterns found in nature to shoot. PhotoShop gives me the ability to combine traditional art with digital images and the tools to experiment endlessly. This image made me think of a trippy psychedelic image that could have come out of the 60's. Consequently, I believe that Mona may have inadvertanly ingested some very magical berries. rk
Description: HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGES can be seen at my FaceBook Page - RkobsStudio Creates https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558759285010 The singing of crickets in the folklore of Brazil and elsewhere is sometimes taken to be a sign of impending rain, or of a financial windfall. “Jiminy Crickets”... we could all use a windfall! In the 19th century “cricket” and “crickets” were in used as euphemisms for using Christ as an interjection. The addition of “Jiminy” (a variation of “Gemini”), sometimes shortened to “Jimmy” created the expressions “Jiminy Cricket!” or “Jimmy Crickets!” as less blasphemous alternatives to exclaiming “Jesus Christ!” So why does Mr. Walt own the name Jiminy Cricket, it was in common use before he appropriated it.
Description: HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGES can be seen at my FaceBook Page - RkobsStudio Creates https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558759285010 I am what I am because of who we all are. I heard a speaker use this phrase years ago, it resonated with me. I may forget a lot of things but this phrase has always stuck in my mind. “Ubuntu is a philosophy that considers the success of the group above that of the individual.” Stephen Lundin The word ‘Ubuntu‘ originates from one of the Bantu dialects of Africa, and is pronounced as uu-Boon-too. It is a traditional African philosophy that offers us an understanding of ourselves in relation with the world.
Description: High Resolution view of the art can be seen on my FaceBook Page: RkobsStudio Creates https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558759285010 The Boeing P-26 “Peashooter” was the first American production all-metal fighter aircraft and the first pursuit monoplane to enter service with the United States Army Air Corps. Designed and built by Boeing, the prototype first flew in 1932, and was still in use with the U.S. Army Air Corps as late as 1941 in the Philippines. The open cockpit, fixed landing gear, externally braced wing design was the last such design procured by the USAAC as a fighter. The “Peashooter”, as it was known by service pilots, was faster than previous American combat aircraft.
Description: HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGES can be seen at my FaceBook Page - RkobsStudio Creates https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558759285010 One of my favorite Jackson Pollock photos combined with a photo I took of a cluster of crickets. I’ve often wondered what went on in Pollocks head. How did he make the break to abstract expressionism. What was he thinking at the time, was it the incessant chirping of the insects that finally drove him over the precipice and freed him to explore the space?
