I’m looking for a quick and easy way to break old crockery and tiles into tesserae for mosaics. We bash items with a hammer and we use nippers to do more controlled work, but when you’re doing a large mosaic, creating the little bits is… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose features Sutton, Holt and Coleman performing Darlin’ Cory. Nice use of the mouth bow on this one.
Tonight’s Daily Dose is all about Sugar in the Gourd. I believe this is Dean Barber on banjo and Travis Brink on guitar. I more or less stumbled upon this on the YouTube Machine. They have a number of really good videos on Mr. Barber’s… Read More
The other day I posted photos of two oil cans that are on their way through the post from eBay-land to 27th Street. My plan, as I mentioned, is to stretch my modest abilities a little by making my own fretless neck for two new… Read More
I’m learning to play a tune on the oil can banjo called Julie Anne Johnson (various spellings for this one). One day I’ll put up an oil can version, but for now let’s enjoy some performances by far better players. Here’s Tony Spadaro AKA Old… Read More
Here is a small (it’s only about a hand-span wide) painting called Lost Forest. Oil on Canvas.
27th Street 