Keith without an S

A "cover" of a Rolling Stone

Here's "my take" on the original Rolling Stone, Keith Richards.




Here's where this piece was at sometime around 1:30 a.m., the "day-after" my birthday.

This has actually been some time in the making. Not that it's taken long to create. It's just that it started way back in the early part of this year as a PhotoShop digital-montage. Made up of a photo of a friend who posed for my original portrait of Buddy Holly. He posed a number of images in a suit and tie holding his red Strat and those were the images that became Buddy. In this collection of images, he included a couple wearing a white T-shirt. I decided to use these for "the body" of Keith Richards. (My model was also born in Buddy Holly's birthplace, Lubbock, TX. He's a guitarist and a big fan of both Buddy and Keith Richards -- so, he was quite excited to get "double-duty" out of his poses!)

The other images in this piece are of the "brick wall" in my house (used in my Brick Window Series") and the Immaculate Conception Church of Easthampton, MA.




You can follow a more step-by-step update on my Live-Journal blog but I will also follow up her with in-progress steps now and again.

The capture of the collage

The difficult part in working in this medium of "collage" is the capture. How does one capture something photographically when the piece is now 3-dimensional?

Rob Caswell at Skylake Studios in Easthampton, MA is my answer. We discussed what I'd like to see in the way of what angle the light should hit the pieces and he pulled it off!

(click images to see the proof)