My new purple shoes
Bin amazin' the people next door
And my rock'n'roll forty fives
Bin enragin' the folks on the lower floor
I got a way with the girls on my block
Try my best to be a real individual
And when we go down to smokies and rock
They line up like it's some kind of ritual
Oh give me a good guitar
And you can say that my hair's a disgrace
Or just find me an open car
I'll make the speed of light outa this place
I like the good things in life
But most of the best things ain't free
It's the same situation just cuts like a knife
When you're young and you're poor and you're crazy
Young and you're crazy...
Oh give me a good guitar
And you can say that my hair's a disgrace
Or just find me an open car
I'll make the speed of light outa this place
music and lyrics by Roger Taylor
This was done as a project while at S.V.A. in 1990. The subject was to illustrate a lyric from a song. I choose Queen's 'Tenement Funster', written and sung by their drummer, Roger Taylor, for their third album, Sheer Heartattack. I went back into it with some Photoshop fixes, mainly the socks, which I was never happy with in the original. Painted in oils on 15X20 hot press Bainbridge Illustration board. The only two sketches I did for the project are here, where I tried using a different lyric from the song for one of the them.
6 comments:
Very kool. I like the choice of just focusing on the feet.
Thank ya, kindly! Looking back on it today, there are some choices I made I might have done differently today. Overall, I'm still OK with it, aside from some painting issues.
the painting is well done, it kinda looks like the blue boy painting by Johanathan Buttall from the knees down.
Thanks. Just took a look at that painting. Wasn't familiar with it, but I see what you mean in the pose of the feet I guess, and white socks with dark shoes.
it is a nice piece of work. cool composition, perspective and subject matter.
plus i knew exactly what painting may-day was talking about by his description. i guess i'm smarter than i thought...
or at least smarter than justin!
(not true.)
(ok. true.)
(no. not really.)
Good show, matey.
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