It would appear that a number of members on the Modern Blues Harmonica forum are also gifted in areas of the arts other than music and the harmonica.
I learnt yesterday that Waltertore and Joch230 enjoyed painting, and I know that Kyzer and Buddha have also expressed their love of practicing the arts so I thought I’d open
The Modern Blues Harmonica Players Art Gallery.
It’s open to any harp player who may want to upload some images of their artwork here to show what we are doing when we are not blowing . When we are not blowing, we could be drawing.
It’s only a bit of fun so come on you harp hearted artists, showcase what else you do. Do you draw, sculpt, paint, graffiti, photo, facepaint, video, tattoo, design, create? Show us what you do.
I’ll kick things off with what I do. I paint watercolour landscapes. Over the past four years or so I have been painting small format (5 x 7 inch) atmospheric intimate landscapes, three of which I have posted below.
tookatooka: Very nice stuff. I haven't tried water colors yet. You are inspiring me to give it whirl!
Josh230: I dig your stuff too! The night time bridbe one is my favorite.
Here is one of mine. I have to say up front I have no training with art. I buy the cheapest brushes, paints, and canvas boards and go from there. I don't frame them. this one is sitting on a window sill. I mainly use acrylics because they dry fast. I need to do a painting in one sitting. Going back to them doesn't work. I feel like it is someone elses picture. I feel the same way about overdubbing music... I do my paintings the same way I do music - in one take, and have no idea what will come out. I just let the hand start with the brush and watch it unfold. Walter
---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
Walter. That's when it's the most fun....just painting and throwing on the paint in one take! The Las Vegas painting you liked was very tedious and not fun at all to paint. But the painting above it, just a farm with a red tree...that I did in about 90 minutes. The tree and the colors are just out of my head. That was really fun! The flowers above that were fun too....cranked the tunes and finished it in one take. Again, the single rose above that was done more traditionally...that method seems like work to me.
I get burned out on painting and sometimes go for years without picking up a brush. I'm in a music phase now and haven't painted in about a year.
I really like that one Josh230. the part I really liked about the las vegas painting is the car headlights on the black road. I am waiting for them to invent a paint that you can put on thick and it dries in minutes. I get frustrated with waiting for it to dry and muddle my colors oftentimes. That is what keeps me away from painting. I haven't painted a picture in about 10 years. Doing spontobeat is like a blank canvas everytime and the colors don't muddle into each other! Someone recently told me about oil pencils. I am going to buy some soon. Walter ---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
Click on my username, and you can link to my website for my cartoons. Pro editorial cartoons and some gag stuff. I also do the drawings/graphics for the bands I'm in plus those of friends.
Here is some of my Art. Since I have started teaching I don't work much anymore except in the classroom and as it is summer break I don't have access to those pieces so I will share what I have around the house.
One of two turtle paintings in the living room
A CBG
Some flower pots that I painted
The second turtle and CBG, I also made the palm tree lamp in the corner
Sunflowers in the dining room I made from cut paper
Another collage, this time a cityscape
Same picture to show the scale
Another collage from cut paper heavily influenced by A. Warhol. Anybody recognize the movie?
Another picture to show the scale
Another collage. I hope that my Aussie friends might recognize this one.
This is an Oil pastel
---------- The Art Teacher Formally Known As scstrickland
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But as an Art teacher this is the work I am most proud of. This is a skit written and performed by my students. All the props and costumes were created by fourth and fifth graders from the things that they learned in my class. In my opinion this is much better art than anything created by my own hand. Harp content @ 6:00
---------- The Art Teacher Formally Known As scstrickland
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I draw cartoons all the time. They are usually either a bad pun or a terribly disgusting thought that will require mind bleach to get rid of, or a combination of both. I always worry about putting them on the web. Most picture hosting sites have a morality clause in the fine print of their user agreements that I worry I'll run afoul of.
It's great to see all the members work here. What a talented and creative lot we are.
I have attached a slide show of some old work I did in the past, when I made the slide show I was still fairly new to harp playing and made a sound track of some of the tunes I was playing at that time. It's great to look back on it to see the improvements I've made. I was only finding my way around the harp at that time so blues was still a dream away for me then.
I like the zombie art. Real old school using a brush for lines with real character and the old crack and peal ben day kind of dots. The Ghetto art is nice too. I have a Commercial Art degree. Illustration is a hard field to crack into. I'm sure you know that though. The computer generated art drove a lot of old school artist out of business. Don't see much Norman Rockwell kind of stuff anymore either. The lower piece is kind of Frank Frazetta'ish. Best of luck.
