Learning From The Dead

January 24, 2016
   Really knuckled down yesterday and did seven scratchboards, with an emphasis on crows:

Daily Whip Out: "Van Gogh Crow"

   

      And I also did a whip out for Johnny D:

Arizona Cowboy Singer

   I was reading a tribute to David Bowie by Cameron Crowe, and in it, Crowe related that Bowie showed him how he writes songs: Take clipped single pieces of paper of the best lines and shuffle them together until it makes just enough sense, and no more. Leave the rest for the reader. So, I applied this to my book project, "Vincent van Gunfigher":

Daily Whip Out: "Learning From The Dead"

"Creativity is freedom. Ability is a poor man's wealth."

—Ricky Gervais