[Art] The Creations of Green Ben

[Green Ben]

I spent my twenties as a Dharma Bum/Punk artist. Most of that time, my day job was selling art supplies, which was perfect for me at the time. I connected with other artists, and collected a lot of samples and closeout priced inventory to pass along to kids in the local punk scene who were into painting.
Era was pre-internet. Most of my work from that era is scattered to the winds, no digital archive, and most of the lost is rightly so.

Gassho
stlah

[Matt Johnson]

Those are awesome Ben! ... I especially like that one of the bodhisattva.... is that manjushri or perhaps fudo?

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matt

[Green Ben]

Those are awesome Ben! ... I especially like that one of the bodhisattva.... is that manjushri or perhaps fudo?

It is Fudo..

Gassho

stlah

[Green Ben]

A few more, only the Quanyin is from the 90's. The airbrushed t-shirt (yes, I beat AI art to giving Shakyumuni six fingers) is from around 2008, and the quadriptych is from about 2012, and is the first work of art I created for a specific space, being the living room of our family's first mortgage.

[Matt Johnson]

A few more, only the Quanyin is from the 90's. The airbrushed t-shirt (yes, I beat AI art to giving Shakyumuni six fingers) is from around 2008, and the quadriptych is from about 2012, and is the first work of art I created for a specific space, being the living room of our family's first mortgage.

The quaddriptich... is that mixed media? it almost looked like textile...

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matt

[Green Ben]

The quaddriptich... is that mixed media? it almost looked like textile...

_/\_
sat/ah
matt

It is a collage, mostly kozo washi.

gassho

stlah

[Green Ben]

Thank you Jundo, for merging the threads, and since your title is wisely broader than mine, I'll start posting some projects that aren't just drawing and painting.

Starting with one of my more recent big projects, armor for SCA fighting. An attempt at recreating a third quarter 16th century Nuinobe dō out of Greek plastic olive barrels. I didn't make the kasa, but I made everything else I'm wearing in this photo.
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Gassho

stlah