A Very Happy Birthday to DR John G.!! :D
I love Ruthie in "She Loves Me." There's a fragile quality that makes her heartbreaking.
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I wanted to post this question on some kind of Stephen Sondheim or Broadway board, but the Sondheim board isn't allowing new registrations, so I thought I'd ask this question here. My sister is an artist. She mostly does still life pencil drawings, and she draws very unusual items. Rather than using a vase of flowers or fruit for her subjects, she draws things like power tools, dungeness crab, bicycle parts, etc. The reason she's drawing these items is that she's created a niche product she calls Time Capsule Portraits whereby people give her a list of all their favorite things (hobbies, foods, etc.) and she compiles them all so that they look like they're displayed on a table and then draws them. Her customers like to commission these as gifts for family members, but they're obviously one-of-a-kind pieces that only one person would want. Then, she branched out into doing drawings based on books. The drawing below is based on the book (which was made into a movie) called "The Help". I told her she should do a drawing based on a song, but the only song I could think of that would have a lot of items in it was "Ode to Billy Joe", ha! So, then I started thinking she should do a drawing based on a Sondheim musical. For instance, a "Sweeny Todd" drawing would have items such as barbers' blades, Pirelli's Miracle Elixir, a meat pie, a birdcage, a meat grinder, a coin purse, a Barber's chair in the background, and maybe a sign that says "The demon barber of Fleet Street".
What do you all think of this idea? Do you think Sondheim fans would want to own a drawing like that? Or is this a totally stupid idea that would never sell. Please be honest because I don't want my sister to waste her time on something that no one would want.
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I wanted to post this question on some kind of Stephen Sondheim or Broadway board, but the Sondheim board isn't allowing new registrations, so I thought I'd ask this question here. My sister is an artist. She mostly does still life pencil drawings, and she draws very unusual items. Rather than using a vase of flowers or fruit for her subjects, she draws things like power tools, dungeness crab, bicycle parts, etc. The reason she's drawing these items is that she's created a niche product she calls Time Capsule Portraits whereby people give her a list of all their favorite things (hobbies, foods, etc.) and she compiles them all so that they look like they're displayed on a table and then draws them. Her customers like to commission these as gifts for family members, but they're obviously one-of-a-kind pieces that only one person would want. Then, she branched out into doing drawings based on books. The drawing below is based on the book (which was made into a movie) called "The Help". I told her she should do a drawing based on a song, but the only song I could think of that would have a lot of items in it was "Ode to Billy Joe", ha! So, then I started thinking she should do a drawing based on a Sondheim musical. For instance, a "Sweeny Todd" drawing would have items such as barbers' blades, Pirelli's Miracle Elixir, a meat pie, a birdcage, a meat grinder, a coin purse, a Barber's chair in the background, and maybe a sign that says "The demon barber of Fleet Street".
What do you all think of this idea? Do you think Sondheim fans would want to own a drawing like that? Or is this a totally stupid idea that would never sell. Please be honest because I don't want my sister to waste her time on something that no one would want.
Amy, your sister does lovely work. My thoughts:
(1) You'd be surprised what people are drawn to. They may be surprised themselves! I'm usually drawn most to color, with composition second. I don't need to "relate" to certain objects to enjoy a drawing or painting. So the audience for her work may be larger than you think.
(2) I like the idea of commissions and "favorite things," whether relating to a song or show or anything really. I'd suggest she make up a list of collections--ones she has done, ones she thinks would appeal. This could be a starting point, with "Oh, could you do this, too?" to follow.
Best of luck to her!
Today will be a day of doing practically nothing. I have no plans at all. My friend Margo might come over and we might watch "The Normal Heart," but since that only might happen, it's not a real "plan."
A Very Happy Birthday to DR John G.!! :D
Thank you, George, and a very happy birthday to your sister.
A friend of mine, Hudson Talbott, did the illustrations for a children's book based on "Into the Woods." I think it sold well. I think a lot of things Sondheim sell if only the association. But consideration has to be given as to how the tale/text will be treated and the audience.
My niece would LOVE to see GWTW, but she has problems with her ears, so she can't.
The drawing below is based on the book (which was made into a movie) called "The Help".
I saw my Australian neighbor in the apartment above me. They've been a wonderful, fairly quiet couple, and they are moving out next week.
DR Jane, no for some reason we do not usually do honey cake for Rosh Hashanah. My sister doesn't like it.
I don't know that we have usual dishes (except always brisket).
My nieces really wanted these special mini brownies. And they turned out so delicious.
And i am home. The goddam elevator is out again. The firemen had to break down a door to rescue an old couple on the fourth floor. Holy crap.
Back from the paper show - a paper show is stuff like old postcards, magazines, newspapers, calendars, etc. I got one thing - a Bradshaw Crandall calendar pin-up thing - and what are the odds of what calendar page is there? December 1947 - my birth month and year. Had to have it.
Many thanks, my friend.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday, DR JohnG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May you have a most wonderful day, DR John G.!!!!!!
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Happiest of birthdays to DR John G!
A Very Happy Birthday to DR John G.!!!
A happy birthday to John G.
Here is an epic happy birthday song for you
http://youtu.be/0N_aanQoshU
Happy Birthday, John G.
A very happy birthday to DR John G.!
Happy Birthday to DR JohnG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday DR JOHN G.
Again, happy birthday to dear DR John G!
(I wished it yesterday because I didn't think i'd make it to HHW today, but I did, so I'm sending wishes again.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to DR John G!!
I see that the festivities have already begun.
Have a great birthday weekend!
Happy Birthday, John G.!!
did they 'bleep" it on your station as well?
Grant and I split a pepperoni pizza at Dino's - his first time there and he is now a convert.
One other thing I got at the paper show: A dealer had one-page movie sections from the Hollywood Citizen News - from the end of 1961 all the way through 1964 - he made me an incredible deal. I've been looking through them and it's literally like taking a time machine back to my favorite moviegoing years. There is not a week (and I have every movie section week-by-week for those years) where I didn't see at least two or three movies - I knew exactly where I saw what before seeing the theater ads, and I was never wrong. And the plays and musicals - that was when I began seeing everything and so much is here in these weekly papers - Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Molly Brown, Virginia Woolf, Stop the World, Beyond the Fringe plus all the local stuff, including Charley's Aunt with Steve Franken - that's one I thought I saw earlier than I did, so that was interesting - and the life changing Oscar Brown, Jr. concert at the old Music Box theater. What a treasure trove - I have have them bound.
George I just realized that was a still from BK's The Faculty
Happiest of Birthdays to my favorite food critic!
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY John G!!!
Happy Birthday to DR John G!!
Hey...how's this for a posting plateau!
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Five 2s! :D
Happy Birthday to DR JohnG!!!!
Sorry I'm a little tardy for the party...LOL
Can we move this show forward?
Happy Birthday to DR JohnG!!!!
Sorry I'm a little tardy for the party...LOL
I'm still here, BwayAnge. And you set me up to sneak in a Sondheim reference.
I'm now watching Tuesday's season premiere of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
Hey...how's this for a posting plateau!
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Five 2s! :D
Thank you, everyone, for your feedback on my sister's artwork! I really appreciate it.
When I wanted to be awake I kept falling asleep and now that I want to be asleep.....
When I wanted to be awake I kept falling asleep and now that I want to be asleep.....
Oy, it's nearly 1:30am your time. Hope you can get back to sleep.
I'm a nite owl this evening -- had a late dinner and have tomorrow off.
I gotta tell you.
When I wanted to be awake I kept falling asleep and now that I want to be asleep.....
Oy, it's nearly 1:30am your time. Hope you can get back to sleep.
I'm a nite owl this evening -- had a late dinner and have tomorrow off.
Good, then let's have a frenzy or three.
I'm now watching "Doctor Who" from last weekend.
I'm now watching "Doctor Who" from last weekend.
Every time I hear a mention of Doctor Who -- it makes me miss Torchwood with Captain Jack Harkness!
John Barrowman and those blue eyes of his, get me every time! :D