This image is now
available for sale as a signed print, see
below...
Captain
Beefheart's Trout Symphony.
Guache on paper.
Sun
Zoom Spark Magazine
This image is available
for sale as a full colour A3 signed and
numbered limited edition print
Encapsulated
in clear plastic to protect print (unless specified
otherwise by the buyer). UK price: £28.00 (plus 20%
p&p) with
stout
packaging. Click here
to purchase.
(We
may also be
able to provide colour prints of other
images on the site; send an email given here
to enquire.)
Going
right back to my
roots... When Grant Pringle (fine caricaturist
and former member of Dawn of the Replicants... they've recently
reformed
without him - rock and, if you will, roll) at 'Sun Zoom Spark'
commissioned
me to illustrate the Beefheart article it not only summoned up the
psychedelic
posters of the late sixties which turned me on to doing my own art, but
also reminded me that the first ever proper painting in oils I did was
a head
and
shoulders of the good Captain (wearing green topper, of course) at the
head
of a queue consisting of Batman, Antennae Jimmy Semens (in bath cap)
and
several score others. It was nice to incorporate the brown trout
(because
it was actually a carp's head on the cover of the Trout
Mask Replica
album as any fuel kno)
with Don
Van Vliet's other career as abstract
painter. I wonder how the old codger is getting on in the Mojave
Desert:
a genius and no exaggeration (but probably difficult to live with).
Here's
a quick look at that very early painting (from a very old and rather
poor
photograph - now that the original has been unearthed, a better image
will follow soon):
The painting at the top of the
page can be found on http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/pictures/borin.htm
(or copy and paste the above link it into your browser's address box,
then
press Enter)
on the top Captain site...