It's the only thing that feels natural next to playing music. It's like medicine. It's me ,what I came here for. It feels like home/safe.
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I love to paint on wood mostly or paper unless I'm drawing one of the music icons. I am not a trained painter obviously. I started doing this when I was really at rock bottom and had to come home from Alaska against my will because I had a spiritual emergency. If I could do anything all day besides play music it would be to draw. When I sit down to draw even if I know that I'm going to draw music icon or just a purging I have no idea where it's going to go. It's just divine floating
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration in my heart and out the doors of my home in the mountains. I find inspiration in nature I'm an Acoustic country blues guitarist. So I painted a lot of my teachers. I studied with the late John Cephas a national heritage fellow for 10 years. Enclosed is a picture of Rufus Wainwright Hank Williams Billie Holiday Loretta Lynn ,Jon Batiste .The 2 sided ,tall A is a thank you card for Jorma Kaukonen. I studied with him for a week in Ohio. The imagination of my unlvd chd
What would you do with $25,000?I would get work done on my old house which is sorta falling down on my head in the mountains where I live in Virginia. I could certainly use a car also. If it was more money than that I would pay every single friends mortgage off today including mine. I love giving people things so I give them paintings. I am spiritually and emotionally a millionaire! 🌀❤️🌀❤️
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