Dale Leroy Scott
Born Corvallis, OR. 1947
O1000: Thanks for allowing this interview Dale... would you be kind enough to introduce yourself?
DLS: I am Dale Leroy Scott and I draw log trucks for a hobby. I have been doing this since I was a boy of 6. Its fun to do drawings for you people.
O1000: Where did you grow up?
DLS: My dad was a log truck driver. We grew up in Wren, Oregon where my father drove for B and W and Moser Lumber in Kings Valley. Me and my sister rode with him, it was fun. I rode with other men too and helped dad and the drivers wash log trucks. The pitch and tar did not wash off. We lived in Wren, Oregon when we were kids. When I got older I helped under the trucks looking for problems. I miss living in the country and miss seeing the log trucks. Dad's last job was with Marse Bros, Inc. in Tangent, Oregon. The chip trucks put me to sleep when I was a boy. My sister was a long haul truck driver. She took me on trips to California.
Born Corvallis, OR. 1947
O1000: Thanks for allowing this interview Dale... would you be kind enough to introduce yourself?
DLS: I am Dale Leroy Scott and I draw log trucks for a hobby. I have been doing this since I was a boy of 6. Its fun to do drawings for you people.
O1000: Where did you grow up?
DLS: My dad was a log truck driver. We grew up in Wren, Oregon where my father drove for B and W and Moser Lumber in Kings Valley. Me and my sister rode with him, it was fun. I rode with other men too and helped dad and the drivers wash log trucks. The pitch and tar did not wash off. We lived in Wren, Oregon when we were kids. When I got older I helped under the trucks looking for problems. I miss living in the country and miss seeing the log trucks. Dad's last job was with Marse Bros, Inc. in Tangent, Oregon. The chip trucks put me to sleep when I was a boy. My sister was a long haul truck driver. She took me on trips to California.
O1000: So you grew up in Wren?
DLS: I went to Kings Valley Middle School and graduated from Philomath High School in 1966. I had polio as a boy and I can tell you that those were some rough years. You don't know what that was like nowadays. I worked as Janitor at Philomath High School for about 6 years. When I was about 24 I got epilepsy and had a lot of seizures and I lost my drivers license.
O1000: Would you tell me a bit about drawing trucks... what motivates you to draw them?
DLS: I've been around log trucks all my life and love to draw them for people. My trucks have been displayed all over the world. That is what I do with the trucks, I send them to people who want them. When I'm not drawing I do the work other people don't like to do, like weeding work and so on.
O1000: You mention that you've shown your work all over the world... tell me about that... how does that work?
DLS: Well, I have all the books and catalogs and magazines about the trucks and about the companies that make them and about who sells them and also about what companies use them to haul logs. I write to them and ask them to send me some pictures of their trucks and I tell them I'll draw their trucks for them on paper, by hand and mail them to them display at their offices. I tell them its my hobby, cause that's what it is.
O1000: I notice lots of letters around your home from people and organizations, thanking you for your drawings.
DLS: That's right, my trucks are all over the world.
DLS: I went to Kings Valley Middle School and graduated from Philomath High School in 1966. I had polio as a boy and I can tell you that those were some rough years. You don't know what that was like nowadays. I worked as Janitor at Philomath High School for about 6 years. When I was about 24 I got epilepsy and had a lot of seizures and I lost my drivers license.
O1000: Would you tell me a bit about drawing trucks... what motivates you to draw them?
DLS: I've been around log trucks all my life and love to draw them for people. My trucks have been displayed all over the world. That is what I do with the trucks, I send them to people who want them. When I'm not drawing I do the work other people don't like to do, like weeding work and so on.
O1000: You mention that you've shown your work all over the world... tell me about that... how does that work?
DLS: Well, I have all the books and catalogs and magazines about the trucks and about the companies that make them and about who sells them and also about what companies use them to haul logs. I write to them and ask them to send me some pictures of their trucks and I tell them I'll draw their trucks for them on paper, by hand and mail them to them display at their offices. I tell them its my hobby, cause that's what it is.
O1000: I notice lots of letters around your home from people and organizations, thanking you for your drawings.
DLS: That's right, my trucks are all over the world.
Transportation and Defense
Dale Scott and Patrick Hackleman at the Corvallis Arts Center
Patrick Fancher, Gazette-Times, 3/3/16
Patrick Hackleman loves historical warships; Dale Scott loves log trucks.
Both local artists have a passion for drawing their favorite machines in such amazing detail that their work has been appreciated around the world.
Now, local residents can see their art in depth in "Transportation and Defense: Patrick Hackleman and Dale Scott," an exhibit in the Corrine Woodman Gallery of The Arts Center.
Bruce Burris, director of ArtWorks (CEI), represents both artists. He helped them present illustrations last year in the exhibit "I Am," which was part of "inVISIBLE," an arts and disability festival.
Burris said: "One link between Pat and Dale's work is they are both entirely self-sufficient as artists. They were creating these things before, and essentially they don't need me."
What Burris does provide is larger public access to showcase the artists' work.
Scott, an Albany resident in his late 60s, came from a family in the trucking business in Wren.
"He grew up, literally, working on his dad's truck. His sister is also a long-haul driver. That really shaped his interests," Burris said.
Scott started experiencing epilepsy when he was 24 years old and lost his driver's license. He uses pencil and paper to draw trucks, usually from memory, with a specific goal in mind.
"He will figure out businesses that have something to do with trucks or truck manufacturing, and he will pack 10 to 15 of his drawings in a manila envelope and send them off to these companies," Burris said.
On occasion, people will send him a photograph of his drawing hanging in their office or elsewhere, Burris said.
Hackleman, a Corvallis native who was diagnosed as being on the spectrum of autism at a young age, has drawn and made models of historical warfare ships and boats since he was in the third grade.
The precision in his drawn-to-scale illustrations resembles blueprints or schematics.
"Patrick's drawings are kind of corrupted plans of ships he has redrawn to a scale he likes from books and the Internet. In the process they're changed, " Burris said.
It's important to Hackleman that he alter the fate of the ships he draws by adding safety modifications. So, for example, the ironclad Civil War era ships he has illustrated include features he's added such as more lifeboats or reinforced armor, Burris said.
"These are wrecks sitting on the bottom of the bay somewhere, and it is his belief he can actually save lives by making them safer. Pat provides us details into making a better vehicle," Burris said.
Last year, Burris and art organization Outpost 1000 facilitated the display of Hackleman's artwork by Gallerie, Christian Berst in New York and the Outsider Art Fair in January.
Despite the differences in subject and the purpose of their drawings, viewers should see the attention to detail and other similarities between Hackleman and Scott's artwork.
The two artists, along with Burris, will be present at the Corrine Woodman Gallery for a discussion about the "Transportation and Defense" exhibit today at noon.
Dale Scott and Patrick Hackleman at the Corvallis Arts Center
Patrick Fancher, Gazette-Times, 3/3/16
Patrick Hackleman loves historical warships; Dale Scott loves log trucks.
Both local artists have a passion for drawing their favorite machines in such amazing detail that their work has been appreciated around the world.
Now, local residents can see their art in depth in "Transportation and Defense: Patrick Hackleman and Dale Scott," an exhibit in the Corrine Woodman Gallery of The Arts Center.
Bruce Burris, director of ArtWorks (CEI), represents both artists. He helped them present illustrations last year in the exhibit "I Am," which was part of "inVISIBLE," an arts and disability festival.
Burris said: "One link between Pat and Dale's work is they are both entirely self-sufficient as artists. They were creating these things before, and essentially they don't need me."
What Burris does provide is larger public access to showcase the artists' work.
Scott, an Albany resident in his late 60s, came from a family in the trucking business in Wren.
"He grew up, literally, working on his dad's truck. His sister is also a long-haul driver. That really shaped his interests," Burris said.
Scott started experiencing epilepsy when he was 24 years old and lost his driver's license. He uses pencil and paper to draw trucks, usually from memory, with a specific goal in mind.
"He will figure out businesses that have something to do with trucks or truck manufacturing, and he will pack 10 to 15 of his drawings in a manila envelope and send them off to these companies," Burris said.
On occasion, people will send him a photograph of his drawing hanging in their office or elsewhere, Burris said.
Hackleman, a Corvallis native who was diagnosed as being on the spectrum of autism at a young age, has drawn and made models of historical warfare ships and boats since he was in the third grade.
The precision in his drawn-to-scale illustrations resembles blueprints or schematics.
"Patrick's drawings are kind of corrupted plans of ships he has redrawn to a scale he likes from books and the Internet. In the process they're changed, " Burris said.
It's important to Hackleman that he alter the fate of the ships he draws by adding safety modifications. So, for example, the ironclad Civil War era ships he has illustrated include features he's added such as more lifeboats or reinforced armor, Burris said.
"These are wrecks sitting on the bottom of the bay somewhere, and it is his belief he can actually save lives by making them safer. Pat provides us details into making a better vehicle," Burris said.
Last year, Burris and art organization Outpost 1000 facilitated the display of Hackleman's artwork by Gallerie, Christian Berst in New York and the Outsider Art Fair in January.
Despite the differences in subject and the purpose of their drawings, viewers should see the attention to detail and other similarities between Hackleman and Scott's artwork.
The two artists, along with Burris, will be present at the Corrine Woodman Gallery for a discussion about the "Transportation and Defense" exhibit today at noon.
