Recent content by Patrick Kirk

Folks, Just wanted to let you know we've expanded the list of prizes. Here they are: 1st Prize- Custom bust OR figure by Matt 2nd Prize- "Federal Drummer Boy" Cold cast bronze by Ron Tunision 3rd Prize- Tom-Tom XL330.3 Text to Speech Car GPS 4th Prize- "The Youngest Hero" Cold cast...

Thought everyone might enjoy this little piece from our own Pete Culos... http://greathistory.com/painting-for-preservation.htm

Folks, MFCA is just around the corner; the APG will have a table set up at the show. We look forward to seeing everyone there. The APG will have on hand membership forms, raffle tickets for the one-off sculpt from Matt Springer and information about the upcoming show in August. Additionally...

Just a reminder folks, the raffle is ongoing and we look forward to your continuos and generous support

Folks, We've updated our blog; please take a moment and stop by and see what's new... http://apg-newsletter.blogspot.com/ Patrick

-- personal attacks are not tolerated --

Yeah, I agree, Paul... ;)

"...It draws my attention that the ones more intense in trying to prove an elitist attitude in others, are now themselves showing such an attitude, covering themselves with the mantle of artists - apparently to the exclusion of other people." I am not excluding anyone from the definition of...

I am going to try, John...if not, please look me up at Atlanta or MFCA...look forward to the talk... regards

Let's be clear...I am not defending anything, simply stating what Daniel clearly articulates in his statistical inference "these statistics are not quite reflected in the number of actual postings to the thread..." If this is the case, then surely we can't expect everyone to subscribe to the...

I guess you're just like all the rest of us...an ordinary kinda guy... ;)

I think we will continue to "beat this dead horse" as long as we have donkey's out there who look with distain the work of others because of a perceived or actual inaccuracy as a lesser form of our artwork…It's really as simple as that.

I agree with you, Steven!

I think we need keep the perspective that a field soldier isn't perfect; so therefor, neither is his uniform or this "artform". The elements have a huge vote in the shade, tone and texture of uniformology, let alone the affect it has on fleshtones...we can take this to the extreme that instead...

For the last couple months I have been looking hard at the value my posts have added to the community as a whole…not sure, given the prevailing attitudes of many in the planet, they have been well received, value added, or quite frankly even understood. Enjoy yourselves, and I leave you all...