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Guitar on Fire
16/03/09 17:26 Filed in: The Intersection of Music and Visual Art | Highlights
Guitar on Fire
Shoosty
Watercolor Pencil and Ink 14” x 19”
October 16th, 2008
This is a painting about guitar. The neck is bent in cubist style making the instrument unplayable but this adds to the playfulness of the overall composition.
Heat and Ice border the sides as Cassidy and her twinkle toes holds the guitar on her back. the notes become an upside down head and a series of fish become notes which become cherries. Fire burns on the top o the guitar and buttons with flowers are flying while some are the tuners for the neck.
Cassidy sits on an oriental rug.
Lots of metallic ink makes this image jump.
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Jam Band
08/09/08 15:29 Filed in: The Intersection of Music and Visual Art | Watercolor and Ink | Music | Highlights
Jam Band
Giclee
Shoosty 2008
Here is a wild organ with feet gas pedals and gauges to show the power. This is combined with trumpet and french horn with a small guitar or violin in the center.
The tuners are flower buttons and the neck of the string instruments is curved in a cubist way. You may not be able to play music but it sure sounds like your having fun.
This is an ode to Jam Bands. Bands that using improv as the central method of creating music. Unplanned, playful, the music creates shapes of sound that are then crafted by the players.
Upside down head notes and strings the double as music sheet, an animal clawed foot and a crazy clock with chinese numbers.
Jason and Jaime Shooster are the artists kids. they are great improv artists. Carly’s eyes become the keeper of the prize.
Van Gogh’s ear is nearby to act as art element evoking impressionism and as the symbol of hearing or sound.
Music Theory and Art Theory converge
Bull Headed
Bull Headed - Shoosty 2007
From the Oriental Museum in Chicago the giant bull sculpture that is over 20 feet tall and thousands of pounds is reduced to a painting.
Watercolor and Ink 14” x 19”
Bullheaded 2008
This was sketched at the Oriental Museum in Chicago. The original statue is huge. It must be 20-40 feet tall. and extremely heavy.
Once the image was drawing I invented a story and completed the painting.
Bullheaded
Love / Hate
Rage / Peace
All the kings men
mythical
style / power
yes / no
fearless
Jamming / Wamming
Assertive
Groovy
notice the flowers at the bottom. Later they become buttons in the paintings that follow.