guitar boogie by Brenda Oliphant

I like this Brenda , musicians always make for a good composition and you have done a great job here.

A brilliant watercolour especially without any drawing beforehand.

A lovely group and my word, how ever did you do that without any initial drawing!

lovely jubbley// and BB.with lucelle eh wow ?thanks great stuff

Great painting with out drawing too, fantastic!

Thanks all for your interest and comments. Just to correct any misunderstanding, I did do a rough charcoal sketch to find the best layout, but the actual painting started off on a fresh sheet as a practice to get the background colours right, and I roughed the figures in with a brush to get the impression right, and it went on from there! I never know how to stop. I am a little disappointed actually as I was going to do a big 'masterpiece' and now I don't feel ike starting again. Still I am reasonably satisfied with the result.

I recognise BB, and I,m guessing that's Stevie Ray to the right. No idea who it is on the left??

Hi Tony, They weren't really meant to be any specific guitarists, I only used pictures to get the angles of the figures right. Obviously though I didn't disguise them enough. You were correct on BB,(who could disguise him) and I thought that Stevie Ray looked nothing like him. I must have had more success with Mark Knopfler and the bass. It was just meant to be a group jamming together - I wonder what they would have sounded like!

The hat and long hair give it away as Stevie. I heard BB and Stevie together, and it was brilliant. Possibly the greatest blues "jam" was Stevie and Albert King, thankfully caught on CD. I never tire of hearing it. But I digress. Not a fan of Knopfler, which might explain why i didn't recognise him. But you've caught BB really well.

Good to hear from another blues fan. I ran a blues group and club long ago (1960's), which is probaby why I like painting musicians. Seen BB a few times but now only on TV as I am probably as old as he. Fantastic- could listen all day. In fact most of the artists we put on have already gone to the big blues club in the sky. Alexis korner, Champion Jack Duprez and a few others, in fact most of our blues group have followed them. Went to see Albert King a few years ago, but he was late arriving and didn't appear until almost midnight, and as I had been up since 3.00 am that morning, I unfortunately fell asleep actually leaning against a pillar! Won't get the chance now - unless BBC digs out some old recorded sessions. My favourite is Muddy Waters.

You're more Chicago blues than I am - which is OK. I prefer the delta stuff, and then much later the 80's, which saw SRV, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins and others really take the blues by the throat and give it a shake. I highly recomend the SRV and Albert King in session CD. Blistering stuff. I only recently discovered that SRV played lead on Bowies's "Lets Dance" - I heard the extended version and recognised the guitar solo work. I played lead guitar in various bands for years, but packed it in about five years ago. Who in their right mind wants to be driving down the motorway at 3 am in driving snow, with maybe 50 quid in your pocket? And then get up for "proper" work the next morning. Still do the odd session work or stand in, but not so much now.

Motorway blues Huh! Especially if you are the only one sober!!