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A new piece. This is five miles from my house. In NJ. Yup. It’s true. We don’t live at Newark Airport!

Here I am at probably 11 or 12, in my room with Frank Gifford of the NY Giants artwork on the wall. Playing my heart out.
And I am not a comeback player. I never totally stopped playing. This is 56 years ago, give or take......
I really should be so much better....

A very Happy Easter to all.
Here is a little thing I did 40 years ago, on a nice piece of birch plywood. Painted straight on the plywood with a little thinned down brown around the border to act as a stain.

It might be about time I show a new one, maybe?
I have been bouncing this one around in my head for some time but when it came down to it I got right at it.

Someone stole the wheels from a patrol car. Police are pursuing the perpetrator tirelessly.

Vandals made hole in nudist colony fence. Police are looking into it.

Unknown suspect broke into the police precinct headquarters and stole all the toilets. Investigators have nothing to go on.

Thieves broke into the Mexican Phone Company and stole an undisclosed amount of equipment, Taco Bell reports.

The current Commision I am working on. Here is a series of shots showing the progression of what steps I go through, though this isn’t necessarily the same for every painting I do. This one, however is being done this way. There were several more drawings to determine how I wanted to lay out the design and positioning of everything.

Hunting DOG: FOR SALE.

Some snowy scenes. Some you may have seen some scenes you may not have scene......

They have been having a little bear trouble in Idaho's National forest lately. Warnings were issued, posters were distributed saying:

BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS WHILE HIKING IN THE FOREST. WEAR BELLS AND CARRY PEPPER SPRAY FOR PROTECTION. MAKE NOISE. IF THEY CAN AVOID YOU WITHOUT BEING SURPRISED THEY MOST LIKELY WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE. BLACK BEAR SKAT (feces ) IS SMALL, DARK, AND ROUND. IT MAY CONTAIN BERRY SEEDS OR SQUIRREL FUR.
GRIZZLY BEAR SKAT MAY CONTAIN BELLS AND SMELL LIKE PEPPER SPRAY.

Not trying to pass this off as an original, but I noticed that I never showed this "copy" I had done of my favorite western artist's painting, "A Dash For The Timber". I mainly did it to see if I could do it, and it will never be sold or passed off as an original by myself. That being said, I was pretty pleased with the result.
The original painting by Frederic Remington was 48”x89” ( I think )
Like a mural size. Mine is 10”x20” I might have been wiser to make it a little bigger for the details, but this is what I decided.

I seem to be in a productive stage this year. I have a clear idea of what I want to paint. This is not always a given, by the way. Just glad the juices are flowing. This one was from a photo I took, from the driver's seat of my Uncle's Buick. The passengers were quite panicked, but I assigned my uncle to hold the wheel so we were fine. The second picture is the photo I took those many years ago ( with a film camera, by the way). Then I decided to recreate it in a winter setting. Here are the pictures

I am playing the trumpet, too. I just wanted to make that clear, in case anyone was wondering. But here is a new one inspired by a photo from a friend in Spring City, Tennessee. This is the Piney River. I am happy with this result.

Saw this farm a couple of weeks ago. I have seen it probably a hundred times, but this time I saw it differently. Stopped on the side of the road and took several pics. And here’s what I came up with. Hopewell, NJ farm.

And another thing. Every time I play for memory the notes I decide upon don't seem to match up with the notes everyone else in my section seem to be playing. What's wrong with those people?

Sharing my artwork with High School students at Lawrence, NJ High School. I have no family connections there, but a good friend is an art teacher there and invited me to visit. I had something set up so that they could have hands on fun actually painting a version of my own work, which was on the easel in front of them. Other paintings are scattered around as well. They were fully involved!

@bodine said in Recording yourself during this lay off:

Re: Staying in top playing shape post band shutdown

I kept up the practicing for a couple of months then things started to slide. I was able to get a couple of jazz gigs so I learned a few new tunes and practiced a lot for several weeks. The gigs went very well. Hard to stay motivated after that for sure. I do enjoy downloading play along tracks, importing them into my recording program, then recording myself on aa separate track. Started doing this a lot more since Covid and things have really improved, intonation, time, right notes!! etc. Fu=ind fun ways to try new things, you have lots of time...

I do the same thing myself. It is more fun for me and motivating, for sure. I am not a pro, nor do I have to answer to anyone who might tell me, “ you should be doing this, or that, or long tones, or short loud tones, or unpleasant tones”, you get my point, right? Here is a sample of a track. I added bass, guitar and light percussion with the use of GarageBand on my digital keyboard.

#SoundCloud? #np https://soundcloud.com/bigdub-3/o-little-town-of-bethlehem

Ticket prices were higher this year for the balloon festival due to inflation

@flugelgirl
1914 Frank Holton Revelation. Still in nice shape. Played it a couple of times, belongs to our group, Stone Hill Brass.

I have been doing more small pieces of late and find them to be both challenging and enjoyable. This one is about 11"x14", a farm near my home in Hillsborough, NJ. It may well not be in this condition any longer but that is a big part of why I do like painting subjects like this.

I said I would post no more than one a day, but I think that is even a bit much, so here we are two days later. I'll show some of my paintings from photos taken by my son in law on his various travels with his family.