SEMA Las Vegas 2023
This year’s Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association Show was the biggest, baddest, best car show I’ve ever attended.
A.D. Cook
November 3, 2023
Posts & Updates
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Luster Exhibition Extended Tour in San Angelo
The LUSTER Exhibition, hosted by the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts has been extended at the Blue Buffalo Art Gallery through February 14, 2024 with an impressive showing of automotive and motorcycle artworks.
A.D. Cook
November 1, 2023
International Artist Day 2023
Yes, artists have a holiday, too. Celebrating each October 25th, International Artist Day honors the contribution artists have and are making to society. The day commemorates the importance of art as an essential medium of human expression.
A.D. Cook
October 25, 2023
Happy Birthday ADCook.com ~ 2023
Oh, how things have changed, especially in the Internet world.
Today, the ADCook.com website features nearly a hundred pages of content, about five hundred and fifty blog posts and updates, over a hundred and fifty artworks, and nearly three thousand images.
A.D. Cook
October 23, 2023
Las Vegas Corvette Association Car Show
The Las Vegas Corvette Association recently marked a major milestone as it commemorated fifty years of existence. In what turned out to be a truly remarkable showcase, the association exhibited a wide range of sixty (give or take a few) Corvettes that spanned seven decades of America’s Sports Car’s illustrious existence.
A.D. Cook
October 21, 2023
My Elysian Dream
I’m excited to share something new from the studio and a departure regarding my figurative metal creations. ELYSIAN DREAM started as a simple little sketch over a cold beer. I must have been drawn to the shapes because I sketched them several times over a few sessions before finally power grinding and sanding metal and beginning to paint. But once I got started, the artwork flowed like a dream.
A.D. Cook
October 20, 2023
LVCA All Corvette Show at Town Square ~ October 21st
Tomorrow, Las Vegas Corvettes Association Presents their All Corvette Show in Celebration of their 50th Anniversary
A.D. Cook
October 20, 2023
After-Party to Zedonk
The Merriam-Webster Time Traveler tells you when a word was first used in print. I also love its other feature, the “Select a Year” button, where you can enter any year and see what words were published that year.
A.D. Cook
October 19, 2023
Are You A Polymath?
So, what is a polymath? A Polymath is defined as someone who excels in multiple fields of knowledge. Today, we might refer to that person as a “jack of all trades” — and some might suggest “a master of none.” I have to laugh at the master of none thought. I believe that a polymath is a person of many talents who also masters a few along the way.
A.D. Cook
October 17, 2023
Momentum in Action
Most dictionaries define momentum as motion or a series of events and speak of mass and velocity. My new art in the studio is all of that! I could not be more excited as my latest artwork, MOMENTUM, moves forward. Momentum is not about light speed. After all, the difference between the 1953 Corvette and the 2023 Corvette is seven decades of choreographed steps to get from there to here. Nothing great happens overnight.
A.D. Cook
October 15, 2023
An Eternal Time Out
My musically gifted friend, Bonzai Caruso, sent me a soothing rhythmic tune that I wanted to share with you. This relaxing music, he suggested, compliments my latest metal artwork, ETERNAL, so I felt it only fitting to create a short video with both sight and sound — an eyes-wide-open meditative experience.
A.D. Cook
October 11, 2023
The Creation of ETERNAL
Two years after photographing my model/muse for my latest metal fine art nude, the artwork is now finished and ready for my collector’s home.
A.D. Cook
October 10, 2023