Scott Fertig's Art and Sketches

More Todd Sketches

2008-03-12T15:13:00.001-07:00

These sketches of Todd also posted here....

Lippy Woman

2008-02-16T20:01:00.001-08:00

Leroy Neiman

2008-02-16T19:56:00.000-08:00

Freaky Nonsense

2008-02-16T19:52:00.000-08:00

David Choe

2008-02-16T19:48:00.000-08:00

Christian Admiral Pool

2008-02-16T19:37:00.000-08:00

The Christian Admiral is now gone. The railings in the lower right of the demolition photo are the same ones in my painting. That white structure was once the platform for the diving board.

Carolyn Reading

2008-02-16T19:32:00.000-08:00

Fertig!

2008-02-05T03:40:00.000-08:00

Gary Taxali

2008-02-03T10:01:00.000-08:00

Rick Wright

2008-01-29T19:47:00.001-08:00

An older sketch of caricaturist
Rick Wright done on the spot.

Mug Shot

2008-01-28T18:34:00.001-08:00

Pittsburgh South Side Slopes study

2008-01-28T18:30:00.000-08:00

Peter Scott

2008-01-27T00:02:00.000-08:00

Peter Scott

Misheard Lyrics

2008-01-25T22:57:00.000-08:00

Don Knotts- Rock God

2008-01-25T22:14:00.000-08:00

We've heard the rumors that Mick Jagger and Don Knotts may have been separated at birth. I think if you give Don the right look it may be easier to imagine.

Olan Mills Senior Prom photo

2008-01-25T10:17:00.000-08:00

Sleeping dog

2008-01-18T23:50:00.001-08:00

Sketches from some muscle magazine

2008-01-18T22:25:00.000-08:00

Arnold Schwarzenegger sketch

2008-01-17T13:39:00.000-08:00

Museum painter

2008-01-12T03:32:00.000-08:00

Self Portrait Update

2008-01-10T02:46:00.000-08:00

http://scottfertig.com/selfoilabout.htm

Photoshop

2007-12-29T00:47:00.000-08:00

One of my first attempts with photoshop a number of years ago.

Dreaming

2007-12-29T00:38:00.000-08:00

Style progression

2007-12-29T00:26:00.000-08:00

Fun sketch

2007-12-29T00:23:00.000-08:00

Old dog portrait

2007-12-29T00:21:00.000-08:00

1969 Ford Falcon

2007-12-29T00:16:00.000-08:00

Another old car I had owned.

Amy and Amy's cat

2007-12-18T19:00:00.001-08:00

John Waters

2007-12-16T23:46:00.000-08:00

Four more strangers

2007-12-16T23:41:00.000-08:00

Abstracted Tina

2007-12-16T23:18:00.000-08:00

Judge Judy Sketches

2007-12-13T01:54:00.000-08:00

A couple girls from youtube clip.

Female body builder

2007-12-12T23:14:00.000-08:00

Michael Schoeffling sighting!

2007-12-05T18:55:00.000-08:00

Michael Schoeffling, actor who starred in the popular movie "Sixteen Candles" with Molly Ringwald, was recently spotted leaving work at a local furniture outlet in a small Pennsylvania town.

Don't show me the pad. I don't want to see the pad.

2007-11-18T14:57:00.000-08:00

Self Portrait

2007-11-18T01:01:00.001-08:00

8"x10" in oils.

Alternate version....
http://scottfertig.com/selfoilabout.htm

Caricatures of caricaturists

2007-11-16T08:36:00.000-08:00

Mike Hasson

Del Ray Plein Air

2007-11-13T21:15:00.000-08:00

Oil on Canvas 8" x 10"

Document Frames

2007-10-22T23:51:00.000-07:00

Michael's Arts and Craft store has a nice selection of frames. I picked up this nice 8.5" x 11" document frame there.

Sculpture Video Clip 1

2007-10-10T00:59:00.000-07:00

This is the first video post of my sculpture in progress, although it's changed a bit since this stage. There has been some reworking of the form, so much of the color is being reworked too. I'll post more videos as interesting changes happen.

Thomas Dolby Sketch

2007-09-26T23:15:00.001-07:00

Thomas Dolby portrait concept based on song "One of our submarines". Colored pencil with touches of acrylic.

Thomas Dolby

2007-09-22T06:42:00.000-07:00

I was at the Thomas Dolby concert last night at the Birchmere and we lucked out getting seats by the stage. Did a couple rough sketches of Dolby at the beginning. Great show.

http://www.thomasdolby.com/

Building Sculpture Progress

2007-09-16T01:38:00.000-07:00

Some in progress photos here of my Building sculpture. After realizing this would also be a subtractive process as well as additive, I decided to take a claw hammer and rip off some of the metal objects that were giving my Dremel some trouble. There were some Smashed up Diet Coke cans and a couple other odd shaped things buried under many layers of paint that had to go. Kind of forgot what was actually under there as I had done the initial stages in a more spontaneous fashion. I’m reworking some areas using cardboard, wood and putty. I think the form itself needs a lot more love. The first concept was to have the paint and color make sense of the form after the fact. That game has been abandoned. I think it’s going to be much better this way.

Elvis and Lady Liberty

2007-09-14T22:17:00.001-07:00

Thought these two icons had simular features.

56 Chevy

2007-09-12T13:26:00.000-07:00

My first car

1961 Dodge Phoenix

2007-09-12T12:30:00.000-07:00

Another old car I used to own. Acrylic on board.

Foot ball guy

2007-09-12T12:01:00.001-07:00

Falcon Convertible

2007-09-10T19:40:00.000-07:00

Cars from 1957

2007-09-09T22:39:00.001-07:00

Something I did in the early 90's.

Todd organizing his music collection

2007-09-09T22:25:00.000-07:00

Done in 1994 in Pittsburgh.

Dave Thompson

2007-09-09T22:11:00.001-07:00

Bikini Clad Women

2007-09-09T22:01:00.001-07:00

Mike Hasson again

2007-09-09T21:38:00.000-07:00

Mike Hasson

Mick Jagger Caricature idea

2007-09-09T21:34:00.001-07:00

Cut out car

2007-09-07T10:30:00.000-07:00

Another Stranger

2007-09-04T23:41:00.000-07:00

Don't know who he is.

Young Cartoonist

2007-08-29T20:37:00.000-07:00

Katie Rice

Bill Wright

2007-08-29T18:38:00.000-07:00

Mike Hasson

2007-08-29T18:33:00.001-07:00

Mike Hasson

My Brother Passed Out

2007-08-28T09:27:00.000-07:00

Pool side

2007-08-15T19:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.scottfertig.com/art3.htm

Joey Ramone from memory

2007-07-30T00:16:00.000-07:00

I've been hooked on this

2007-07-30T00:02:00.001-07:00

http://www.ledjamradio.com/

Go there. Listen. You won't regret it.

City Girl

2007-07-26T05:03:00.000-07:00

Fun with glitter and polyurethane.
Another view here

My Sculpture

2007-07-26T03:28:00.000-07:00

This has been in the works for a while.

http://scottfertig.com/intheworks.htm

Another Self Portrait

2007-07-15T15:41:00.000-07:00

Self Portraits

2007-07-15T15:28:00.001-07:00

http://scottfertig.com/watercolorself.htm

Drawing from two years ago.

2007-07-13T23:27:00.001-07:00

http://www.scottfertig.com/cruisers.htm

Carolyn

2007-07-13T22:05:00.001-07:00

Denny's First Date

2007-06-08T03:21:00.000-07:00

Denny was right on time. He pulled up as Linda peered out the front door to get a glimpse of the shiny car that he spent the afternoon washing and waxing. The tires glistened under many coats of Armor All and he had the top down. It was a 1982 Buick Riviera. It was white with a red interior. This was 1984, so this car was one of the finest on the street. He was still as excited about this car as the day he got it two months ago. Two years of saving every penny and a loan from his parents as reward for getting good grades made it all possible. The only thing that would make the car any nicer would be a beautiful girl riding in the passenger seat.

Tonight, it seemed, that would finally happen. He got out of the car and quietly shut the door. He had just checked his hair in the rear view mirror as he turned onto her street. His brand new high tops didn’t have a scuff on them. His baseball shirt was fresh out of the laundry and he even ironed it for good measure. He hoped she was impressed. He tried to walk in a way that seemed casual, although he was about as nervous as he had ever been around a girl. He didn’t want to let on to just how much this date meant to him. She was hot--very sweet, but also very hot. A lot of kids liked her at school. He felt she was out of his league, but for some reason she said “yes” when he got the guts up to ask her if she wanted to go get pizza and maybe go see “The Karate Kid”. What possessed him to launch into such a brave act and how he got to this point with her was beyond him. He wanted to play this right. This is the big time, he thought. “Don’t blow it Denny” he kept repeating to himself.

On his way up the steps to her front door, he heard a slight crackling sound behind him. He turned to look and spotted her 13 year old kid brother in the tree by the driveway, hanging from a limb with a couple of his friends and giggling. Denny grinned and kept his pace. It was apparent from the muffled laughter that they realized they were spotted. The game was to scout out the new boyfriend. Denny was all Linda talked about at home this past week and it was made clear to her brother that there would be no teasing or funny business when Denny got to the house.

Linda also saw the boys in the tree. She shook her head and shouted”I see you Frankie! Get down now!” He and his friends began to maneuver through the branches, and as they did the unnerving sound of a cracking limb echoed in the air. Everyone froze. Frankie narrowly escaped falling by grabbing onto a higher limb just in time, but the limb he had been perched on broke away from the tree. It was an old, thick, dead branch with no leaves. More of a log actually. It turned end over end in the air for one full rotation on its way down before landing and significantly altering the hood of Denny’s car. Pieces of bark danced in the air as the limb bounced off the hood and into the driveway. Denny was speechless. He gawked at the long scratch and dent in the hood.

The boys, in shock, slowly made their way out of the tree. Frankie was the first on the ground. Things remained silent as everyone stared at the car. The silence was first broken by Lance, Frankie’s friend who was still up in the tree and started loudly muttering something about the situation. Everyone kind of ignored him until his words were cut short. His feet slipped from the tree branch he was standing on. He was wearing old wing tipped dress shoes with no laces and no socks, not the best gear for climbing a tree. His sweaty hands couldn’t pick up the slack that fast, so he was airborne before he knew it. He fell from the tree, screeching in a loud, sustained tone on his way down.

Bam!!

He couldn’t believe his luck. He wasn’t hurt in the least bit when he landed. It was a miracle, really. The windshield on Denny’s car had become a safety net. Lance was surprised that he wasn’t even scratched or anything even though the windshield glass looked like a hammock draped over the dash board. The pride he felt in being so lucky showed a little on his face as he poked at the windshield glass with his finger, amazed at how it stayed in one piece for the most part and had a sort of gummy texture to it.

Everyone stared at the damaged hood and the Lance-shaped impression in what was moments ago a streak-free, perfect windshield. Lance kind of looked over at his friends to see if they might appreciate the spectacle of his lucky fall, but they weren’t in the mood.
Denny and Linda couldn’t believe how suddenly things had unfolded. What was supposed to be only an awkward, first date moment had become a full blown disaster.
Denny now was watching Lance carefully scoot and shuffle off of his hood in a crouching position as his wing tips left black skid marks.
By this time, Linda’s parents were in the front yard trying to process what had just happened. They had heard the entire racket and came rushing out. Linda’s dad walked down toward Denny’s car and pretended to inspect the damage but mostly seemed to be looking over his own car that was parked nearby. Seeing his car was fine, he seemed relieved although he turned and yelled something at Frankie as he hit him in the back of the head. Weeks later, in the privacy of their clubhouse in the woods, Lance and Johnny would irritate Frankie by reenacting that particular moment in slow motion. Describing how Frankie’s cheeks shook and how his thick hair sort of jolted as one solid form, like a motorcycle helmet or something. They tried hard to mimic Frankie’s facial expression too, but knew it was one of those “had to be there” sort of things.

Stranger

2007-06-01T01:37:00.000-07:00

Lost in thought, he hadn't realised he was caught in the background of the snapshot. It was supposed to only be a photo of the two new sales reps. He was hoping to leave the party as soon as he could because he hated these functions. He began to hate all these trade shows and happy hour drinks at the hotel bar after the convention center closed for the day. Business is business though and he had to meet his quota. He would later go back to his hotel room and get some rest. Flipping through the channels on the t.v. while looking over the stack of business he cards he accumulated that day. As he dozed off into a restful sleep, the last thing on his mind would be that one day, an artist snooping around the web via an image search, would happen upon his picture.

Ron Hall

2006-08-30T20:58:00.000-07:00

Good friend and great artist.

http://ronaldhall.com/ .

Nicole Luter reading the paper

2006-08-26T01:32:00.000-07:00

A sketch of my friend Nicole.

Arnold Schwarzenegger caricature

2006-08-25T15:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.scottfertig.com/

Chubby self portrait

2006-08-25T03:22:00.000-07:00