Box guitar player / in memory of Johnny Slim Campbell

Box guitar player
Originally uploaded by trudeau.

Sketched while listening to American Routes radio program host/producer Nick Spitzer talk about the rebirth of New Orleans.
Centenary College, Feb 07.

Image based on memories of the late blues singer Johnny Slim Campbell.

N. Fez

N. Fez
Originally uploaded by trudeau.

Mediterranean dude. The stylized hair is borrowed from an impression I got from Etruscan art, maybe. Minoan?

This is a misbegotten figure all around but I think he's an amenable sort.

Waif

Waif
Originally uploaded by trudeau.

Started with a young violin player onstage before us, drifted into the graphic style that produced the logo for Les Miserables, imagined a light linen coat, wanted it to be daring rather than boring. While listening to Theofanidis' work Rainbow Body as performed the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, 03.31.07.

Carmina Burana

Carmina Burana
Originally uploaded by trudeau.

Stirred by the stunning voices and thunderous music at the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra concert, Mar 31, 07.