In an effort to try and get some kind of record of the art I’ve created over the years (much of the earlier stuff having gone out the door unphotographed), I emailed my friends and asked if they could take a photo of the Beatles drawing they’d asked me to draw years ago.
I don’t remember much about the drawing, other than the request was something with the Beatles.
What I ended up doing, as you can see, is a caricature, using charcoal, of McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, and Starr. I then added, in no particular order, a collection of song lyrics in the area of where their torsos would be.
The secret, is of course, a slight addition of a non-lyric; it’s not hard to spot.
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Julie’s Lost Art: If you happen to have one of my early artworks, I’d love to get a decent digital photo of it, emailed to me. I can think of a couple, specifically, that I’d love to get a photo of:
- a caricatured version of “American Gothic”
- a mixed-media painting of greyhounds running (a rather long painting)
- a triptych painting of greyhounds and a starry sky (was sold/auctioned at Dewey Beach greyhound event in ’03 or ’04, I think)
- and a mixed media painting of fish (was sold to a co-worker at Nodak Mutual Insurance Co. in Fargo; her name was Sheila…?)
Much of these were created before the advent of widespread digital camera and/or scanner use, and I didn’t always take a print photograph.
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I think you gave me this for my high school graduation in 1998. I thought it was so cool that I commissioned you to put it in some sort of frame (I think you were working at Creative Expressions at the time?). It got put on the bottom of some pile there for a couple of years, after which it wanted to be found in a manner similar to that of the Ring of Power. It then drove you to put it in a frame and found its way back to me, and it remains under my dominion. (Erika and I just watched the LOTR trilogy a couple of weeks ago.)
The LOTR analogy is working for me….oh yes.
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