All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
Over the Waterfall
I love the Old Time fiddle and banjo tune, Over the Waterfall. Here are a few different approaches to it, beginning with Dave Hum fingerpicking it… It has a different feel played clawhammer. This version was posted by Kenneth William Elkington. Very nice. And Ryan… Read More
Raw Materials
After finding that beautiful maple syrup can recently, I ordered up a neck from ebay. My other canjos have been “A” scale but this is a full length neck. It’s in pretty good shape and I think it will make a nice instrument….once I get around to finishing up the mountain banjo waiting in the workshop for my attention.
Storytime – The Catch
We got back to my place with a sack of perch we caught through the ice on Simcoe. As ice fishing goes, it was a good day. The plan was to fillet them up and package them for the freezer but mom wouldn’t let us… Read More
Johnny Can’t Dance
(Johnny’s just like me that way….) Here’s Ray Abshire
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#1
When I started posting these digital drawings/photo manipulations or whatever they are, I was giving each of them a little title, but I think that presumes a greater degree of finish to them. I’m thinking of these more as spontaneous image development than as completed works. I decided that instead of titling them, I would simply assign a number to each of the images, starting now. Even though there are others that came before it, here is #1.
Cardinal Update
Paintings by Tim Deverell
I was out and about in the city today, first picking up some pictures from our framer’s, then picking up a suit from Tom’s place in Kensington Market, after which I walked down to Yumart at 101 Spadina (for readers not from around here, I’m… Read More




