Cream

I've been listening to Cream a lot lately so I mashed up a few lyrics and ideas of theirs into this image.

The White Stripes

Did a little poster for the white stripes. I tried as best as I could to stick to red black and white, but I couldn't help give it some color.

The Strat King

Here is Jimi sitting in his guitar throne getting down with the spirits and the sounds of his soul.
Up next is some Cream art.

Taj Majal, Guitar Shorty and Keith Richards

Here is the last three of the blues guitarists.

Taj Majal looking for hope in the sky,

Guitar Shorty on his fire burst strat,

and Keith Richards on the tele.

Derek Trucks

Here is one of the last blues portraits, Derek Trucks. Keith Richards is up next.

self portrait

This is a very Barron Storey inspired self portrait. It was a lot of fun. The color is made from the pastel portrait below, manipulated in photoshop.

tab benoit, lonnie brooks, elmore james, otis rush, and a quick self portrait

these are the rest of the blues guitar players series I was doing except for keith richards

heres the self portrait

BB King

Number 12, B B King and Lucille

Eric Clapton

Number 11, Eric Clapton goovin out his Cream years.

T Bone Walker

Number 1o, T Bone Walker smiling for chicago

Kid Ramos

Here's number 9, Kid Ramos formerly from the fabulous thunderbirds.

Duane Allman

Number 8, Duane Allman sliding warm tones out of his Les Paul.

Johnny Winter

Number 7, Johnny Winter heating things up!

Self Portrait

Here is number 6, myself beating blues out the guitar.

Muddy Waters

Number 5, Muddy Waters thinking of his delta past.

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Number 4 on Blind Lemon and his big head.

Albert King

Number three with Albert King Playing his Flying V.

SRV

Here is number two in the series, Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Skip James

I'm starting a series of blues guitarists to explore drawing and mixing pastel with other media. Here's number one, Skip James.

Icky Thump

Just finished this illustration for the White Stripes song "Icky Thump". The songs pretty crazy so I felt the image should be too.

Blues roots

This was for an article in Rolling Stone about Keith Richards and Jack White talking about their roots in blues music. Was a fun adventure in pastel

Ginsberg

Did a quick pastel of Alan Ginsberg. Thought about using my pen linework in my pastel drawings by blowing up small ink drawings, and preserving the line work with pastels.

blues talkin fix up

Here's a little fix up on this piece. I desaturated the ceiling and background colors and also brought the values closer together. Also darkened and desaturated the stage.

pastel dylan

Heres another go at the pastels, Bob Dylan, one of my favorite music peoples.