Keith Richards 02
Keith Richards 02 - by Miki
I always wanted to see him (and his mates) live.. and always missed him!
But this won;t happen again, next time the Rolling Stones are on stage, I go there, wherever it is!
Let’s see what the Wikipedia has tp say about him
“Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, songwriter and founding member of The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created “rock’s greatest single body of riffs” and, placed him as the “10th greatest guitarist of all time.” Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting partner and band vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone Magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.[1][2][3] Richards’ notoriety for illicit drug use has stemmed in part from several drug busts in the late 1960s and the 1970s…”
If you want to read more about that extraordinary guy, go yourself to the Wikipedia.
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Together Old in Italy 02
Together Old in Italy 02 - by Miki
Travel sketch in watercolour and ink
Mt second artwork from the mini series “Togetherness and Loneliness in Italy”… my last post was about an old man/woman couple. Today the Togetherness is more about friendship, two old ladies chatting on a bench in a town park in Lucca, , Tuscany. And obviously they have a very enthusiastic conversation, probably telling each other some dirty secrets judging by the face expressions… 
In this motif I was especially attracted by the contrast between the colours of the background and the black and white colours of the woman clothes. Also by the contrast between the darkness of the clothes and the lightness of the faces…
Well, it was again not easy to make this sketch, I had to be quick, and in the heat of the moment I forgot to take some photograph to refer to it later… but well, I think I could render good enough the impression of the scene. In fact what i wanted to show here is that ageing can still be fun… at least in Italy.. and among women!
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Together Old in Italy
- Together old in Italy – by Miki
Watercolour and ink travel sketch
I saw this old couple in Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy in April 2011, while I was on my 2 months painting trip through Tuscany. I found the scene extremely poignant, full of symbolic about life and death and age and love…It was a big challenge to try to capture this moment, I did as good as I could to hide and draw. I added the colours some hours later when we came back to our Boomobile, our tour bus… well, it is not exactly a bus, bit is a big a motorhome, but we use it for my paintings tours, so i guess the name is appropriate… it sound so much cooler than “motorhome”!!!
Some years ago, I think it was in 2008, I did in Lisbon, Portugal a sketch of an old couple too, walking together in the street after shopping. That painting has received very much recognition since then, being featured in many places around the world, for example as magazine cover related to special themes about ageing , illnesses, etc…
- Old Couple in Portugal – by Miki
I hope that my painting of an Italian couple getting olf together will have the same success.
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The Children from Tahiti 05 – Tahitian Boy with Knife
Tahitian Boy with Knife - by Miki
Pastel chalk painting on Fine Art Paper
One of my favourites from my “Children from Tahiti” series…
Last year as I was making some designs for a greeting cards company, I remember having chosen this painting for a Father’s Day card with the title:
“Life is a long thread from YOU to ME…”
It would have been perhaps more appropriate for a Mother’s Day card, keeping in mind the umbilical cord … and in fact, thinking about it, it was rather a bad choice for Father’s Day as the boy is about to cut the thread with the knife!
But in any case, yes, life is a long thread connecting us to our parents, whether we want it or not. Almost every child, once in his life, mostly in his/her youth, is tempted to cut this thread, and sometimes he/she does it, but the consequences are often dramatic, at least from a psychological point of view, for the child as well as for the parents. I know very well what I am speaking about, and I wish any child or parent actually denying the other would stop this awful nonsense at once!!!
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The Children from Tahiti 04 – Very Young Maori Warrior
Very Young Maori Warrior from Tahiti - by Miki
Pastel and Colour Pencils
One more beautiful child from Tahiti.
What fascinated me in this face and inspired me to paint it is the combative expression.
So young and such a warrior already!
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The Children from Tahiti 03 – Little Boy
Little Boy from Tahiti - by Miki
Pastel and Colour Pencils
One more beautiful child from Tahiti.
A result of races mix. If I remember well, this one was a mix between a Chinese man and a Polynesian woman… just wonderful!
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The Children from Tahiti 02 – Little Girl
Little Girl from Tahiti - by Miki
Pastel and Colour Pencils
She looks so upset, even sad perhaps… i just adored that expression on her face…
One more from the Series “The Children from Tahiti”. I explained in my first post about this series of Tahitian children portraits how it all began…
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The Pianist 01
The Pianist 01 - by Miki
I mentioned them in my last post, and there you could see them in the back ground.: The Pianist and his Little Buddha. Here is the first painting I did of them some days ago. I was so fascinated by them, such a wonderful couple, I guess they will haunt most of my paintings about that show Joe Bonamassa did in the Royal Albert hall in London.
I still don;t know what is his name, was too lazy or too busy so far to google it. But i will. In the meanwhile, if somebody out there knows his name, he/she is welcome to leave a comment. And if this divine pianist one day finds his way to my blog, and read this post, I want to thank him personally for this wonderful artistic inspiration he is to me. I think I could paint him millions of times and not getting bored!
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The Children from Tahiti 01 – Very Young Maori Warrior
Young Maori Warrior from Polynesia - by Miki
Pastel and Colour Pencils on Grey Fine Art Paper.
My brother lives in Tahiti. He was having a big career in the French army, luckily not at the front, but in the background teaching logistics (in normal words: how to make the most successful wars, highly secrete stuff like that.) to high ranged officers, and also to bosses of big companies, as in fact, the methods to success are not that different, wherever it is.
Anyway he had dreamt all his adult life to buy a sailing boat and to sail around the world for the rest of his life. In my family we take it quite seriously with our dreams, so one day he.bought a boat, gave every thing up, including the wife and sailed away on his love;y one-man boat called “Atalante Fugitive” (“Escaping Atalante”, Atalante being a mythology figure). Well, he happily sailed for a year or so, part of it with me, then arrived in Tahiti and found it so great that he decoded to stay there!
He kept living on his boat for may years, but then he met a woman, and she was sea sick on the boat that they had to sell it, about one year ago.
And what hat that all to do with my portraits painting? Well, many years ago, he told me that the children in Tahiti are incredibly beautiful, most of the time as a result of the many interacting races there: Polynesian, Chinese, White, Black, Blue… so I simply decided to make a series called The Children from Tahiti. I will present some of them in this blog.
One of the first I did was This young Maori Warrior. i was fascinated by the seriousness, determination and combativity on his face.. so young and so ready to fight! Well, to tell the truth, even younger i was fighting like mad with the little and big boys in my street and school!. Must have some Maori blood…
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Street Life – People from Memphis 02
My guitar hero Big Jerry was a people from Memphis (well, at least I saw him there, no idea if he actually is from Memphis)… now comes somebody I saw in Beale Street, not far away from Big Jerry, but another day. I wished it would have been warmer and I could have sketched directly from life, but the temperatures were under 0… anyway this painting is based on a furtive photo I took of that person. I was fascinated by the colours, of her clothes, on the wall and the window. Just gorgeous!
Street Life in Memphis - by Miki
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