tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165049352011-04-21T22:20:42.280-07:00My blues and roots via brushes and paintWailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1160329441686201132006-10-08T10:35:00.000-07:002006-10-08T10:45:49.003-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/Divine%20Madness.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/Divine%20Madness.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Divine Madness<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">60" x 37.5"<br />oil on fabric<br /><br />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 <a href="http://www.upsetter.net/scratch/main.htm">Eternal Thunder website</a>! <br /><br />Bright Moments and Creativity my illustration Friday Friends!!<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-116032944168620113?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1160067476640573632006-10-05T09:52:00.000-07:002006-10-05T09:57:56.656-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/givin%20things%20up.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/givin%20things%20up.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />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!!<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Givin' Things Up</span></span><br />25.5" x 24"<br />oil on fabric<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-116006747664057363?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1133960444192649022005-12-07T04:51:00.002-08:002006-10-08T10:46:14.036-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/000_1404.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/000_1404.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Poor Bob's Blues<br /></span>24" x 48"<br />ink, acrylic, found chains on found wood<br /><br />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.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-113396044419264902?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1132863673946019032005-11-24T12:13:00.000-08:002005-11-24T12:21:13.956-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/The%20Kingdom%20of%20Heaven%20is%20Within.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/The%20Kingdom%20of%20Heaven%20is%20Within.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">The Kingdom of Heaven is Within<br /></span>Ink and Acrylic on wood<br />24" x 24"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow</span>, 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!!<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-113286367394601903?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1132672314033900512005-11-22T07:05:00.000-08:002005-11-25T03:56:41.003-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/broke%20by%20blues_fire%20spirit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/broke%20by%20blues_fire%20spirit.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Broke by the Blues<br /></span>24" x 24"<br />Acrylic and Ink on Wood<br /><br />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 <span style="font-style: italic;">Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee with Cyprus Grove and Willie Love</span>, its damn good.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-113267231403390051?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1129687445486022462005-10-18T18:52:00.000-07:002005-10-18T19:04:05.486-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/000_17811.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/000_17811.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a>Ain't nothin' colder than a working stiff's lifeless heart, 'ceptin' perhaps a well digger's ass of course.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I was a Thirty year old Teen-Age Zombie<br /></span>ink on paper, 4.5" x 6.5"<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-112968744548602246?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1127185192143627692005-09-19T19:49:00.000-07:002005-09-19T19:59:52.146-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/000_1750.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/000_1750.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Well here it is, a few days early even. "There are no prisoners on earth 'cause of death and art", I reckon.<br />Houdini was the greatest with smokes and mirrors, the ultimate showman. Isn't all art an escape?!<br /><br />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!!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Smoke, Mirrors, and the Abstract Truth<br />25" x 36"<br />ink, acrylic, charcoal, and chalk on found wood<br /></span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-112718519214362769?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1126835994601830472005-09-15T18:50:00.000-07:002005-09-15T18:59:54.606-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/000_1744.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/000_1744.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Man I wracked my brain over this, trying to avoid cliche so we got the sword swallower's blues. Miss Linda Lovelace, adult film star from 1972's <span style="font-style: italic;">Deep Throat, </span>which incidently has been one of the world's highest grossing films of all time. Linda was the cute girl nextdoor with an "extordinary" talent who would later become one of the most steadfast and tenacious advocates for women's rights and empowerment later in her life.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Subtle Art of Sword Swallowing<br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>ink and acrylic on found wood<br />22" x 38.5"<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></div> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-112683599460183047?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1126698919035006812005-09-14T04:40:00.000-07:002005-09-14T04:55:19.040-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/000_1739.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/000_1739.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Here is The Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard aka Dirt McGirt, Big Baby Jesus, etc. ODB chose his nickname because no other emcee before had his style. Makes sense! His style is part sung, part rapped, growled and garbled mostly stream-of conscious crazy dirty flow. His first solo recording is arguably his best produced by the Wu's RZA, called <span style="font-style: italic;">Enter the 36 Chambers: the Dirty Version.</span> Great album, backed with hard early 90's beats. ODB dies last November of heart problems while in the Wu's studio, reportedly clean and sober.<br />I am still stuck on the pthalo blue. You can get so many values by adding a dash of another color. I really dig the pthalo mixed with the lemon yellow. Makes for a great time!!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">McGirt's Low Down Dirty Blooze<br /></span>ink and acrylic on wood<br />24" x 24"<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-112669891903500681?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16504935.post-1126188380345935222005-09-08T07:00:00.000-07:002005-09-08T07:06:20.350-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/1600/Copy%20of%20000_17201.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/1568/400/Copy%20of%20000_17201.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">figurin' I'd translate the topic the way I see things in paint and sweat via the holy sung, twanged, picked note or word. Ali Farka Toure is a bluesman of the highest caliber from Mali, refusing to leave his village of Niafunke to even record or tour. His home is his passion magic music source, a deep blue. Root down my friends check out his album <span style="font-style: italic;">Niafunke</span>, you will transported way away.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></span>This is <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Real Blues and Roots</span><br />ink and acrylic on found wood<br />24.5" x 48"<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16504935-112618838034593522?l=popindenial.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wailin' Rob Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590022112493211436noreply@blogger.com3