I told my friend CT about a blind guitarist I met at a grade school family night. I had introduced myself of course but knew in the back of my mind that he was certainly a musician and probably a sting player, which turned out to be correct. It turned out CT is a chair person of a guitar concert series so I gave him Kevin's number and he went over to hear Kevin play. He was very moved by Kevin's orginal composition called River. Kevin's wife Boo from Tunesia is also blind and is amazingly asute politically and historicly. The only sighted person in the family is their daughter.
Unfortunetly when CT was going to bring them all out to dinner he discovered his car was towed. Those damn garden apartments have these kidk back deals with A&G towing and soak the residents and vistors for thousands of dollars. CT called me up for a ride home. I dried off from the hot tub and drove over to get CT, said hi to Kevin and went on to Potomac. Back at CT's house he didn't want his wife to know he had lost his car... then he played the new CD of his violin concerto that Public TV had recorded and that I had written the program notes for. The second movement was like following arroyos of the great southwest with gushing water that opened up into a grand oasis meadow and blue green water falls.

I came back home and opened the mudcat to jot down my latest experiment and decided to put it on the kitchen table.


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I have been drawing with a power washer.

I leave the old patina of dark concrete for the dark contrast and paint with the clean light color the power washer leaves. So on one back yard patio I have done a sun compass with a smiling visage and the solar system as well as an abstract cubist theme. Next I'll do a series of Hirshfeld portraits on the sidewalk out front. The power washer lends itself nicely to line drawing but it does an amazingly good job of gradient shading too!