Author: Christopher Conway
Ravi Shankar, June 2019
Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) [14 x 17, charcoal]
Latin American Author Tomb Cards (June, 2019)
I drew and painted these as offerings to leave behind at the graves of Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, and César Vallejo, all of which are located in Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. I don’t know what happened to these 4 x 6 cards. It rained for a few days after I left them there. I assume they were wrecked and eventually trashed by some groundskeeper.
Selected Jazz Portraits, April-May 2019
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
Max Roach (1924-2007)
Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996)
Recent miscellany, May 2019
Frederick Douglass 1818-1895
Amelia Earhart 1897-1939
Amelia Earhart was one of my father’s favorite historical mysteries. I miss talking to him about her and what might have happened to her and to her plane in 1939. I intend to draw Amelia much more. This was my first, loose attempt.
Fab Four Postcards
Two Clifford Brown Postcards
Postcards
Above, left to right: Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and R. Crumb.In March of 2019 I started sketching free hand on 4 x 6 postcards. I often draw them in bed. Playing with postcards helps me to draw fast and loose and hopefully achieve some cartoony likenesses. I generally draw in series, such as American Literary History, Jazz performers, or The Mexican Revolution. Below, left to right: Venustiano Carranza, Woman with a rifle (after a Casasola photograph), and Emiliano Zapata.