"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 10: Parker

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the tenth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie Parker

For Charlie Parker's bio, go HERE

'Parker' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 09: Bow

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the ninth image. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

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"The more I see of men, the more I like dogs." - Clara Bow

For Clara Bow's bio, go HERE.

'Bow' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 08: Davis

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the eighth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

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“For me, music and life are all about style.” - Miles Davis

For Miles Davis' bio, go HERE

'Davis' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 07: Baker

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the seventh image. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

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"... I improvised, crazed by the music... Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone." - Josephine Baker

For Josephine Baker's bio, go HERE.

'Baker' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 06: Calloway

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the fifth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

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"My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience." - Cab Calloway

For Cab Calloway's bio, go HERE

'Calloway' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 05: Berber

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the fifth image. This is from the Cabaret series I'm working on.

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"Life in the service of poetry is a life not wasted" -attributed to Anita Berber

For Anita Berber's bio, go HERE.

I highly recommend the Feral House book: "The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber. Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Depravity" by Mel Gordon.

I will post the second Berber piece in a couple days. Would love to do a comic just about Anita Berber and her pet monkey.

'Berber 01' Ink/Digital Color, July '09

"16 Pieces in 16 Days": Day 04: Mingus

So, the idea is to post a new piece of artwork every day until San Diego Comic Con. "16 Pieces in 16 Days." I will have prints of all the new artwork at Comic Con.

Anyway, here's the fourth image. This is from the new Jazz series I'm working on. This will likely appear in SLG's 'Jazz' Gallery show in San Jose, CA in August '09.

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“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.” -Charles Mingus

For Charles Mingus' bio, go HERE

'Mingus' Ink/Digital Color, July '09