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Color or No Color - You Be The Judge
Posted by: | CommentsSeveral months ago I was contacted by a “mom” that wanted a special gift for her son for his anniversary. She was quite passionate on presenting a special gift for a special day. This particular mom got the privalage of officiating at the ceremony that joined her son with his new wife. The event happened on March 21st, 2003 and it was the first day of Spring.
Well, spring here in Chicago today is non-existant and we are gearing up for another snow.. My thoughts on that sentence is.. filled with $%^&W#$^$^% explicit language.. but my problem, not yours.
Anyhow, after going back and forth with Jan - the mother of the groom - we decided on a photo.
The only thing collectively we really couldn’t decide is whether to add color to this, I have been successful adding a slight coloring to a grey scale drawing. I did Tommy Katona and When It’s Shinin’ Blue and it turned out pretty well from what I am told.
But this particular scene, came on a chilly Maine Morning, the color of the ocean was deep yet the blue’s still shone through, the color of the sand, was a dark amber, but where it began to dry was a lighter peach. So, the story goes, Jan and I communicated back and forth as the drawing was developing.
The final outcome, with color, was not as she expected, and I have not a single issue when folks are not completely pleased, so I decided that I would re-do it, completely in gray scale. The jury is still out on my favorite and Jan is framing them both.
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Pride and Joy Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Well you’ve heard about love givin sight to the blind
My babys lovin cause the sun to shine….
Well who would have guessed there was a picture of Stevie that I hadn’t seen..this was a commissioned piece for Barry in New Jersey, and after doing the pre-lim concept, I realized that I was drawing the wrong dang picture.
Getting so fired up because I found a fellow SRV lover, I didn’t read the fine print.. if I would have, I’d have realized that the Album “In Step” was re-released and held other photo’s.. after running to the library, Best Buy, Walmart, and countless other stops along the way, I have to thank to my friends at Musician’s Plaza & The Stratocaster Forums, for sending me the picture from the re-issue of In Step…Barry sent one, but it was to grainy to see the detail.
This drawing was a pleasure to do, In Step has the song “The House is A Rockin”… one of the best lines is…
Walkin up the street you can hear the sound
Of some bad honky tonkers really layin it down
Not knowing the man, but knowing some that did, we could all learn from him the lesson of love.. he says in Pride and Joy…
My babys lovin cause the sun to shine…
Put into perspective that we all are here on loan, not knowing when that loan will expire. There are little annoyances that happen to us on a day to day basis, there are struggles and issues, no matter who we are.
If we learn to live within our means, and within our boundaries, we will be a much better person and the music that we create from being here, will cause the sun to shine. It will make an impact on someone, you may not get instant gratification from it, but your memory, kindness, legacy and the music that you created within someone’s heart and mind will forever “dance across their soul”
Dallas Cowboys Release Terrell Owens
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Dallas Cowboys Release Terrell Owens
The move to cut Owens comes a season after the team gave him a four-year, $34 million extension that included a $12 million bonus. When asked about now cutting the receiver, one Cowboys source said, “It was the right thing to do,” alluding to the fact that the team is trying to create a more harmonious locker room..
A more harmonious locker room? With that amount of cash, who wouldn’t be harmonious?
These type of stories just amaze me, with the nightly news being filled with stories of folks loosing their homes, unable to feed their kids, yet, there is this amount of cash swirling around the locker rooms across the country.
I continue to wonder, how we got into such a crazy mess…
Is this type of mess all because of ego?
What makes one person worth a 12 million dollar bonus? And another person worth only 50,000 a year? You can only live in one room, so why is it that over the last decade people needed 30,000 square feet of living space?
I would really like to understand how these salaries can be at such a premium when so many are struggling. I’d also like to understand how at these salaries, why people can’t get along and why they continue to screw up such opportunities.
Stir Your Creative Juices
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Inspiration that has grown wings - that’s how I view Danny from Guitar Players Center
I’ve gotten to know Danny through our passion for Stevie’s Music.
One of the most unique traits about him is his dedication.
We all have angels that sit on our shoulders, and I did this drawing of Danny with two of his musical angels, because I believe that somewhere in a cosmic way, Danny had to have crossed paths with the essense of Stevie & Jimi.
Somehow these two immortalized musicians feed his ability and he continue’s to write and help others that have not obtained the level of knowledge on guitar repair and playing.
Finding something that feeds our ability and stirs the our creative juices is a healthy way of living. Living for what and who we love is lacking in our society, that was pretty evident last night as I flipped channels and the only thing on were reality shows, when in reality, they are not reality at all.
People striving to be like the so called “reality stars” when in real life there are so many people that we could idolize much easier and with greater returns of self improvement.
A strong backbone in Danny’s life are his parents, oddly enough my parents are as well to me. As grown adults we can still learn from our parents. My parents apparently have done something right, they raised 4 kids, all of us married, to our first and only spouse…. my parents will celebrate their 57th wedding anniversary in May.
That reality creates a strong bond - dedication to family and to keeping the basics on track. The Bachelor or The Bachelorette - who really thinks this can make for a strong marriage?
Finding yourself in Muddy Waters
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Muddy Waters is considered “The Father of Chicago Blues”
Following suit of some of the greatest Blue’s Artists, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters was playing guitar at the yearly age of 17.
Having an appetite for all genres of music, blues, jazz, rock and country gave this blue’s man a fully rounded arsenal for music.
When you “Muddy the Waters” so to speak, you are making a situation less clear to yourself and to those around you.
When you need help, do you ask? When you screwed something up, do you come clean? These situations can be two-fold, but are necessary in your own success.
I read and learn from experience, and have stumbled upon many people in the online communities as well in our every day lives, that are willing to help and willing to teach. But, there is a flip side as well, there are many that do not have the tolerance for questions or do not understand if you make an error. B
Let us imagine if Son House, Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters would have been unwilling to teach and to inspire. Muddy Waters had a hand in getting Chuck Berry’s first record contract, because he was willing to help, teach & inspire!
If such greats allowed attitude and ego to get in the way, would we be minus “Johnny B Good?” if so what song would Michael J. Fox have jammed to in Back to the Future? Would the inspiration chain have been broken? Great inspirations, can lead to great success.
From it’s original release in 1958 to 1985 in Back to The Future - Johnny B Good is a great example of the inspiration chain and how other’s can lend a hand in history.
Ask for help when you need to, and admit when you made a mistake, it will be more easy to be corrected. If you are on the flip side of that, what is it going to hurt you to give 10 minutes of your time and or, give an empathetic ear?
