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R. Crumb and Lynda Barry – Drawing the Blues
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
I bought “R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country” for two reasons: I’m a big fan of R. Crumb’s non-comic book drawings, and a big fan this music. While his comics are way too perverse and misogynistic for me, I found the documentary The Confessions of Robert Crumb fascinating. In this film the camera found him drawing something nearly every moment he’s awake. He’s as obsessed with drawing as he is with, erm, bodily functions.
In his sometime Cheap Suit Serenaders he showed himself to be a talented tenor banjo player playing songs from the early 20th century, but in creating this book he takes a different route to praise his musical heroes. He draws loving portraits of the musicians in all his cross-hatched mastery.
Memphis Minnie from R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz and Country
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Shmooshy versus in focus
Friday, August 7th, 2009
One of the challenges that I continually face as a painter of landscapes is figuring out how to be loose in a controlled way, but also to develop a point of interest in the painting that is in focus. I’ve been working hard on this challenge this summer.
Farmhouse | Stephen Springer Davis | 2009
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Tags: landscape painting, oil painting
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Hello.
I'm Stephen Springer Davis
I'm a pretty much self-taught and pretty much unknown artist and designer living near Philadelphia. The plan is to tell you about my artwork, why I do it, maybe how I do it, and also about other artists who've inspired me along the way.
My definition of the term "painting" will remain intentionally broad so I can talk about anything that interests me.
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