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Musicians

For this folder I chose to include a bunch of different musicians I've drawn and painted over the years.

They are drawn in various mediums and painted in various mediums and colors. Some are from life, 

   some after photographs but they all show my concerned committment to "making memorable music"

through my multi-musicians' inspiring images.

Frank Sinatra(after a tape cassette's co

Frank Sinatra(after a tape cassette's cover's photograph)

2003, 2019  20 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, $300

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This acrylic painting of Frank Sinatra, after a photograph of him from one of my tape cassette's of his music, was accepted in a musician art show at The Del Ray Gallery in Alexandria, VA in 2019. The focused, introspective facial features of Frank Sinatra I straightforwardly emphasized well. My aim for this musician-figure-portrait was to convince and show the viewer that even Mr. Sinatra despite much fame and a seemingly natural voice struggled to make it as a musician at first. "It don't come easy" as The Beatle's Ringo Starr once sang in a famous song. Neither has it come easy for me as a visual artist either.  

Eric Clapton(after a tape cassette's cov

Eric Clapton(after a tape cassette's cover's photograph)

2002, 2019, acrylic on canvas, $300

Daniel_Barenboim, 2000 oil on cardboard

Daniel Barenboim(after a photograph)  2000  oil on cardboard  9.0 x 11.00 inches  $300

Julliard_String_Quartet_at_The_National_

Juliard String Quartet at The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC  1992  oil pastel on paper  17.00 x 19.25 inches  $300

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This small oil pastel drawing that "I had the time of my life[creating], I never felt[this much fun drawing from life] ...before(after a popular music song in the late 20th Century)." When drawing this colorful classical musician quartet, I was barely employed working part-time as an art teacher. I, however, had the memory of a creative painting studio class at American University in Washington, DC with my painting professor teaching us art students about Matisse in the late 1980's. This motivation along with Picasso's classic cubist musician masterpiece at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "The Three Musicians," got my joyful juices of artistic attitude flowing well within me: I hope my viewer catches this creative vibe well too.    

The_Bass_Play(at Little Flower Church, B

The Bass Player at Little Flower Catholic Church in Bethesda, MD  2014  oil on gessoboard  14.00 x 11.00 inches  $300

Destiny, The Female Violin Player(at Lit

Destiny, The Female Violin Player

at Little Flower Catholic Church in Bethesda, MD  2017  color pencil on blue paper  10.00 x  8.00 inches  $75 

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