I was honored to have the cover of this month's 'Memphis Downtowner' magazine.... Thanks! Jodie & Terre for ALL the support over the years!

www.MemphisDowntowner.com 

Random Sunset photo!

At this point, Silky & I had a meeting to see what each other thought.  The consensus among us and everyone that worked there was that it was 'nice' but didn't quite have the energy that the bar/restaurant/juke joint/goat haven that 'O'Sullivan's' conveys.  So.... it is not quite 'finished'.

Majestic Grille on South Main

Well, the Majestic Grille Holiday Art Show officially ended this past weekend.... so in my THANKS! to Deni & Patrick for their great contribution to helping Artists, I left them this piece of their place: "Majestic Grille".  They already have a work of Art from a previous artist that has 'Majestic' on the piece and I hope future artists that show can add to their 'Majestic' collection.

Updated: Silky O'Sullivan's Art

So these are the initial phases of how Silky's Art is shaping up.  I wanted to capture the excitement of all that is O' Sullivans by including all that I could.... Fountains, courtyard, Goat Town, & the Palm trees.  There is almost tooo much to stick on a painting without your eyes going crazy.  Almost like a 'where is Waldo' pic.

Newest Project: Silky O' Sullivan's on Beale Street

Silky O'Sullivan liked my art enough to give me a call the other day and see if I would be interested in doing a piece on his place on Beale Street.  So after meeting him and getting a better feel of what he had in mind and what I could do with it in a painting, we shook hands..........

So, I began taking the reference pics to use in laying out this enormous complex.


After a few sketches.... this is what I came up with.

Let's see what happens......

2011 Memphis Blues Awards

This is the finished painting that will be the '2011 Memphis Blues Awards' poster on 5/5/2011.  I wanted the art & poster to reflect the fact that it is held in Downtown Memphis, so I incorporated - in my own style - most of the notable buildings downtown (the Pyramid, UP, Morgan Keegan, 1st Tenn, Sterick, and old Horizon).  It was a slight take off of the poster that I did for the '2009 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival'.

ART - 'IN THE WORKS'

This is the 'rough draft' of the poster for the '2011 Blues Music Awards' to be held 5/5/2011 in Memphis.  Soon the colors will begin and we'll see what happens.