Cripple Creek Painting

Hi,

I got the profession digital pic back on Cripple Creek (Click to enlarge).

I'll have copies (or the original available next week). Please email me at richiematt@aol.com if you're interested.

Here are the painting lyrics:

Cripple Creek

I've got a gal and she loves me,
She's as sweet as she can be.
She's got eyes of baby blue,
Makes my gun shoot straight and true.

Goin’ up Cripple Creek, goin’ in a whirl,
Goin’ up Cripple Creek, to see my girl.
Goin' up Cripple Creek goin' in a run,
Goin' up Cripple Creek to have some fun.

My gal lives at the head of the creek,
I go up to see her ‘bout twice a week.
She’s got kisses sweet as any wine,
Wraps herself ‘round me like a sweet pertater vine.

Cripple Creek's wide and Cripple Creek's deep,
I'll wade old Cripple Creek before I sleep.
Roll my britches to my knees,
I'll wade old Cripple Creek when I please.

Cripple Creek: Rough Pics

Hi,

I finished my painting of Cripple Creek last night. Here are some rough pics I shot with my camera (click to enlarge). I thought the painting would be easy but it wasn't. I had to include a banjo picker and singer in the background yet not disturb the main scene. I'll have some good pics in a few weeks that really show the colors. Hope you like it.

The main scene above features, "Goin' up to Cripple Creek Goin' in whirl, Goin' up to Cripple Creek to see my girl." The other verse is, "Roll my britches to my knees, I'll wade ol' Cripple Creek when I please."

Below is the full painting (click to enlarge):

Salty Dog Final pic Full-view

Salty Dog C 2009 by Richard L. Matteson Jr.

Here's the full view professionally photographed. Click to enlarge:

Salty Dog professional close-up pics

Hey,

I just got my profession close-up digital pics of Salty Dog: Here are the close ups (click to enlarge):

Salty Dog: Close-ups

Hi,

I just finished my painting of Salty Dog Blues. On the left is a close up (Click to enlarge) Sitting on the corner with the lowdown blues, great big hole in the bottom of my shoes.

This is a wild painting featuring a variety of scenes including a little girl lifting the ocean to get her ball- the ocean turning into a giant wave and then becoming a green pasture with a wild hog running on it. A hunter standing on a giant hot dog and lifting his gun, has a finger on his trigger and an eye on the hog. Two old maids are sitting in the sand...each one is wishing the other was a man. It also features cameos of Miss California and Mel Gibson as well a hog running above a meat grinder! What did I leave out???

Here's the hunter standing on a hot dog, finger on the trigger and an eye on the hog. It looks the like the hog better be careful; he's running above the meat grinder!



More wild images! Two old maid sitting in the sand, each one wishing the other was a man. The little girl is lifting up the ocean to get her ball! The ocean turns into a green field with a hog running across.

Bluegrass Messengers

Hi,

I'm revamping my group, the Bluegrass Messengers. We are practicing once a week and are performing on Friday May 29 at 6:00 at Ahoy Fish Hutt on 2902 Bardstown Rd. Louisville, KY 40205

Call (502)451-5508 for info.

We just about got a full band now that Roz has joined on fiddle and Wayne will be playing dobro and some on banjo.

I'm still working on the lyric section- http://bluegrassmessengers.com.temp.realssl.com/bluegrass-lyrics.aspx and have made it to letter H-I on the fiddle tunes and have started the Bluegrass Blues and Jazz Lyric section A-B.

Only a few thousand hours to go lol....

Richard

Driftwood Series

Hi,

I'm working on painting Salty Dog this week. I got back my image of one of my new Driftwood Series paintings (Click to enlarge):

Mona Lisa: C 2009 Richard L. Matteson Jr.

For more info check my art web-site and blog:

http://www.mattesonart.com/blog.aspx

Hope you like it,

Richard