JULIE JANNEAN IN WHITE 2

18" x 24" oil on canvass  1995

JULIE JANNEAN IN WHITE

16" x 20" oil on canvass 1995

JULIE JANNEAN IN PINK

16" x 20" oil on canvass 1995.

JULIE JANNEAN AND THE BEAUTY SALON

When I painted this portrait of Julie Jannean she had just come back from her first trip to the beauty salon.  It is on a board I cut to 24" x 36" and I used oil paints.  She sat a few times for the painting and as usual never complained. She even put a few brush strokes of her own on there.

MORE JULIE JANNEAN

More of Julie Janean.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIE JANNEAN

I painted this portrait of my niece in 1995 when she was seven years old. It was done using acrylic on board. When she would visit us she always wanted to paint and draw.  She even drew a comic called Polliwog (which I still have and cherish). She is now 26 years old and the mother of a wonderful baby boy. Happy birthday Julie and thank you for all the fun times.

WHAT A 60 YEAR OLD THINKS OF TOMMY KANE'S BOOK

Go buy this book.  Buy more than one.  If you are interested in drawing this is what you need to be studying and learning from.  I study and copy his work. A lot.  If you want to draw like a master you must study the masters, and he is a modern master.  I've learned so much about angles, details (oh those bricks!), the way the light hits the side of a building and, most importantly, taking the time in order to really see.  For me his work is right up there with Van Gogh, Hopper and Kirby. He has drawn a lot of the places I am familiar with in and around Brooklyn and Manhattan.  His drawings bring back wonderful memories of places I haunted in the 1970's when I lived there and the world was a much different place.

From the very first he describes how fear drove him to do what he has done so far in life, and how his art has saved him.

 That is real stuff. Motivated by fear and going for it anyway.

When you make art because you have no other choice but to do it you are in a wonderful place.  I like the way he works through adversity.  He goes for it with a Uniball pen, watercolors and prismacolors. Mistakes happen.  But he works it.  Here is a guy willing to produce art without a safety net. He works so hard at it that even if 90% of his art turned out to be mediocre the other 10% would be stone cold masterpieces.  In my opinion his masterpiece percentage is much higher than 10% already.

And anybody who liked Joe Pepitone knows what being a real Yankee fan in the 60's was all about!

One last thing...I noticed on the back of the book it said "to be continued".  I hope there will be a volume 2.
Nice job Tommy. Thanks!