Sketches at the Palladium Theater

Had the pleasure of going to see a concert at the Palladium Theater featuring guitarists Nate Najar and headliner Larry Coryell.  Amazing music and first time experience of this venue in a renovated church with beautiful architecture. There was way too much to draw in the dark lighting with very little time. 

It was fun to listen to the stories, tributes, and on-the-go tuning from Coryell. Watching him bob and groove up there with that white shock of hair, to tell his guitars' origin story. A romantic tangent on the Gibson Super 400 he purchased back during 1956 in Cartagena, Colombia.

The Palladium is one of many St. Pete venues large and small that attract quality acts within the downtown area. A few examples of my favorites are; The State Theater, Jannus Live, The Hideaway, and next to the Dali museum is The Mahaffey Theater.

This drawing is from the encore where he switched to an acoustic guitar. Drawing the legendary musician without glasses made Coryell look decades younger but I like it.

John Lennon and Jack Kerouac

Portraits of Lennon and Kerouac who's music and writing, respectively, were synonymous with a generation. Engrained, defining, a measure of the passing seasons, like the rings on a tree.

This was a somewhat related process sketch drawn during the build up to the Flamingo Bar mural project, The Last Road Trip. Drawn with a Prisma-color black pencil which is wax-based and hard to erase but are quality and worth it in terms of shading and contrast.