David Stone Martin In the world of jazz there is one artist collected the world over who has never played an instrument not even a note of music but has left his mark on the jazz culture. Illustrator David Stone Martin was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, with his signature hand sketched graphics with two or three primary colors, perfectly capturing the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom.
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Rene Eleftheriadou - Jazz Painting. Growing up on ranches in and around Globe, Arizona, Virgil spent most of his spare time drawing what life presented him.
From his earliest doodling to his current pencil drawing, conte drawing, and oils and he recorded the scenes both poignantly mundane and sublimely humorous that represent the richness of ranch life in America. Raising a family didn't afford the possibility of taking classes, so Virgil started reading books and studying paintings by famous artist and well known teachers in his spare time.
Common sense convinced him the high cost of canvas and paint was money better spent elsewhere and he eventually wound up with a pencil in his hand and spent the early part of his career concentrating on fine pencil drawings. His family processed their own meat and poultry, and he was weaned on cows milk straight from the udder and strained through a part of the screen left over from the back porch door. Deer and elk were plentiful and there was never a shortage of venison in the freezer.
There were many times when saddling up to gather cattle, Virgil would stuff a camera in the saddle bags along with a can of Vienna sausages and a roll of T. Although his unique imagery covers a wide range of subject matter from Native Americans and cowboys to domestic animals and wildlife, he remains true to his heritage by portraying only what he knows from first hand experience. In Virgil moved into the world of Conte drawings and oils, as a result of studying under the late master painter and teacher Lou Maestas.
Virgil grew up with music and played piano in his local church. He found whimsical music scenes allowed him to unwind and unravel on occasion from the tightness of realism.
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