Illustration Friday: Trouble

Divine Madness
60" x 37.5"
oil on fabric

Lee "Scratch" Perry, the Upsetter is perhaps one of the greatest musicians/artist/procucers of all time everywhere. This man may possibly be immortal and has definitley produced some immortal sounds, causing trouble and wreaking havoc everywhere he goes. For an brief, but thorough bio check out this Eternal Thunder website!

Bright Moments and Creativity my illustration Friday Friends!!

Illustration Friday: Quiet

Whoaa I have been gone for a long time. Just newly got re-acquainted with my oil paints. Love'n'em, missed the smell of the mineral spirits and binders...anyway howdy Illustration Friday!!

Givin' Things Up
25.5" x 24"
oil on fabric

Illustration Friday: Blue

Poor Bob's Blues
24" x 48"
ink, acrylic, found chains on found wood

This IF topic couldn't make me more happy!! Seein' how've I been in a pthalo blue rut for some time now. This is Robert Pete Williams. In the 50's Mr. Williams was convicted of murder and sentenced to life inprisonment in Angola State Penn, until the man responsible for Arhoolie records came and recorded his blues. The scholar then played Mr. Williams' blues for Warden and the Warden had Robert play before a judge. The judged granted Robert pete Williams parole with three years probation, just in time for the huge blues/folk revival in the 60's. At the end of his life, Robert died a free man on his own land, after traversing the globe several times playin' the music he loved. Fat Possum released a pretty fine album of his songs, worth checkin' out. His music is definitley avant blues, if ever there was such a thing.

Illustration Friday: Free

The Kingdom of Heaven is Within
Ink and Acrylic on wood
24" x 24"

Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, the second album from funk rockers Funkadelic, fronted by the ever present intergalactic grandmaster of funk hisself, George Clinton. Free your mind and your ass will follow...truer words have never been spoke!!! Happy Funky Thanksgiving all!!

Illustration Friday: Broken

Broke by the Blues
24" x 24"
Acrylic and Ink on Wood

Jeffrey Lee pierce was the intense frontman for L.A.'s roots punk outfit the GunClub. The group set out to destroy blues music and disgust the general publlic with their covers of great blues standards. As time went on they themselves became wrapped and swaddled in the blues. Jeffrey's swansong was a solo album, a blues solo album, fantastic piece of work. Checkout Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee with Cyprus Grove and Willie Love, its damn good.

Illustration Friday: Cold

Ain't nothin' colder than a working stiff's lifeless heart, 'ceptin' perhaps a well digger's ass of course.

I was a Thirty year old Teen-Age Zombie
ink on paper, 4.5" x 6.5"

Illustration Friday: Escape

Well here it is, a few days early even. "There are no prisoners on earth 'cause of death and art", I reckon.
Houdini was the greatest with smokes and mirrors, the ultimate showman. Isn't all art an escape?!

Anyway this is dedicated to Danny(give'm hell), Kent(get well man), and Aaron L(no fuckin' way), and Reg(It is ours babe, we done did it!!). Number 150 for the year. Onward!!

Smoke, Mirrors, and the Abstract Truth
25" x 36"
ink, acrylic, charcoal, and chalk on found wood