It was Saturday, April 11th

A Day in a Life Beatles For Sale On today's schedule was a trip to the Country Cottage Framery. But first, I needed to stop at the post office to mail out a print to Colorado and 10 note cards to Missouri. As I was finishing up preparations, I got a phone call. It was from Jess at the Country Cottage Framery. Someone was interested in purchasing my original portrait of the Beatles in a piece I call "Norwegian Woods." WOW! This was great news! And later that day when I had finally made it to the framery, I met the proud new owner of my portrait, in person. We had a great chat. He had many encouraging and supportive things to say. He also pointed out he had brought something to be framed as well... While My Guitar Gently Weeps Yes, I know, Jimi Hendrix did not write or play on this song but I have this Beatles theme going here with album and song titles, so please, bear with me. ...The piece, he had brought to be "re-framed" was my portrait of Jimi purchased back in December during the Country Cottage's 20% Holiday Sale! So, it appears John, Paul, George and Ringo will be sharing a wall with Jimi! Now, the reason I was at the framery was to get these two pieces framed for the FIGURATIVE ART SHOW, coming up in May. Polythene Pam I hadn't thought about any names for these pieces until this Beatles theme popped into my head this morning with the sale of "Norwegian Woods" (and the fact, this blog was being "composed in my head" all day long) -- it just seemed more and more appropriate to avoid the usual fine art name of "Untitled 1 and 2" and go with Mean Mister Mustard and Polythene Pam. And actually, Pam here was already being considered in another Beatles themed collage. She was going to be the "big teaser" in a piece I was going base on the Lennon and McCartney tune, Day Tripper. Mean Mister Mustard You may have seen both of these pieces in my Life Drawing posts. But something may have struck you as "something different" about them. I created this "torn-look" in Photoshop to illustrate the look I gave these two drawings. I tore them from their larger 18 x 24 inch pages. As I often draw many sketches on one sheet, I wanted these removed. Jess, my framer, is going to "float" them on matte board when she frames them. I'm looking forward to seeing how they COME TOGETHER!...