Happy Birthday Steven Tyler

Posted by: Susie  //  Category: Aerosmith, Pencil Sketches

Steven Tyler Pencil SketchHappy Birthday Steven Tyler!

Steven Tyler has a style all unto itself, if you have ever listened to Just Push Play, the beginning of the song starts with a sassy nanananahhhh, nannahhhnna from a front man that can belt out some fantastically ferocious lyrics.

You Gotta Move debuted on Tuesday, November 23rd at 7:00 PM at several Regal Cinema’s across the country, I happened to snag tickets for this IMAX type event.  My son & husband crabbed the entire drive, by the end of the Big Screen Concert they were pleasantly surprised.

This was truly a unique experience, with interesting footage of the band. 

Steven Tyler says, “I just spent four weeks in Pandora’s Box mixing this puppy into a sweet 5.1 lather, and tonight, for one night only, you’re gonna hear, see and feel 30 years of clubs, arenas, juke joints and jams rolled into two hours of sweet concert insanity!”

While I was watching this Big Screen Concert, it was clearly evident that this man’s mind never stops ticking, constantly trying to figure out the best mix of crazy composing and blending it correctly to make yet another number one song.  Dedication to his passion, is most likely the drive behind the success and continuation of a band that has seen the seemy side of life, and lived to tell about it.

Mama, I’m coming home

Posted by: Susie  //  Category: Pencil Sketches

Ozzy Osbourne & Sarah Pencil SketchYou made me cry, you told me lies
But I cant stand to say goodbye
Mama, Im coming home
I could be right, I could be wrong
Hurts so bad, its been so long
Mama, Im coming home!

This was a gift for the little girl I never had! Sarah! How would we all feel if our daughter called you and said.. Mama, I’m coming home……and she brought home someone like the famed Ozzy? What a story that is, I watched Dee Snyder’s wife talking about when she brought him home. What a fun program to watch.  It doesn’t always turn out bad!

Sarah’s a rocker - that’s for sure, at the great old age of 11, she know’s what good rock music is! I love seeing when younger kids get into the heart of rock ~n~ roll, that my generation grew up with.  I enjoy seeing the spark of interest in the old albums that have been tucked away into the attic and they start digging through them.  My son, Jake has been playing guitar for two years now - and he isn’t playing all the new stuff, he is concentrating on Grand Funk, Aerosmith and some I have never heard of even from my era. 

I took a light box to get the characters correctly proportioned on this sketch for Sarah’s birthday.  Having to take and manipulate the pictures via scanning and printing to get them sized correctly so they would fit into one another like a puzzle piece.  Done in Woodless Graphite - 97-4B.