

Now, I find people like just stealing my stuff and putting it on posters. Today, the posters are heavily collected and even featured in museums. Q: Are you flattered or insulted when you are copied?Ī: The gig posters Miller, Kelley and artists like Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin crafted used bright colors, elaborate typesets and historic photos. Choose your favorite The Grateful Dead-inspired shirt style: v-neck or crew neckline short, baseball or long sleeve slim or relaxed fit light, mid, or heavy fabric weight. “Earthquake, Bo Diddley,” 1966, ink on illustration board A range of t-shirts sold by independent artists featuring a huge variety of original designs in sizes XS-5XL availability depending on style. Now when I am approaching that, and I kind of can do it, nobody cares.Ĥ. I always wanted to paint like that, like I saw in museums all my life. She sat there like that, and I painted a fantastic painting. Q: What was your expectation when you met the model in “Peacock Feather?”Ī: It was just one of those things where this girl said, “Paint me and make my butt big.” I wasn’t really into it. All I had to do was learn how the paint worked. He said, “It’s easy, just smoosh the paint around,” and he left the room.
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Q: When you moved to Santa Fe in the early 1980s you began working more on figurative paintings, right?Ī: I wanted to learn how to oil paint really good, so I picked out the best painter in Santa Fe and asked if he would teach me. I went into ancient Egyptian mythology and learned myself.ģ. Q: Do you think singer Steve Perry or anybody in the band knew about this?Ī: Some Japanese media people came to interview me about it. “Escape” is the beetle breaking out of a planet, which was the dung ball he was pushing around.

When the eggs hatch, the babies feed off the dung and become beetles. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ: I did the “Capture” album in 1981, and it is a scarab that carries its eggs in a dung bowl.
