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Buz Hitchcock Artwork

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About Me

ART IS MY PASSION ~ IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY PASSION ~ I GUESS YOU COULD SAY I LIVE FOR ART ~ ART HAS COST ME AT LEAST TWO NICE HOUSES, THREE NEW CARS, FOUR GREAT JOBS AND COUNTLESS RELATIONS. BUZ MANN 2008 Ever since i was about 14 I've worked at art. Over my life I've been a sign Painter, Show-card Painter and a Billboard Painter. A Concept Artist, Advertising artist, Scenic Artist and a Freelance Artist. I've done Paste Up, Layout, Story Boards and Surfboards. I spent almost 8 years in Vegas doing the interiors of Casinos. I've made Wallpaper, painted Murals, Marbled Columns, Lacquered Furniture and Wood-grained Mantels. In any spare time I had I worked at home in my studio in all mediums from Oils to Watercolors. After practicing about 35 years I became fairly good at Photo Realism with a Airbrush. My first love has always been doing really large Abstracts, often using materials left over from other jobs.I was lucky guy, I LOVED WHAT I DID...About 4 years years ago I survived an stroke, apparently the effect of the tiniest of spider bites. After 5 semi-conscious weeks I came out of the hospital barely able to walk, talk, dress myself or (even worse) hold a paintbrush! I WAS LOST~ COMPLETELY LOST...An long time friend heard about my situation and gifted me with a computer to see if I might be able to use it for doing Artwork. I had zero computer skills but I did have a burning desire to create Art. In the beginning my hands shook so badly I had to Velcro the mouse to my hand to keep from dropping it. It soon became Meditative for me, enabling me to regain a lot of the use of my hands. I no longer tape my mouse to my hand ~ now I draw using a Track Ball drawing with my thumb. What you see here is the culmination of nearly Four years diligent work.I HAVE MY PASSION BACK! I HOPE YOU ENJOY THEM AS MUCH AS I DO MAKING THEM. Be Well All, PEACE AND LOVE, BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL.
Willie Nelson and Shelby Lynne, Angel flying too close
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbNTK0Q3qPA

Dig it!

I got my layout at Cleanupmyspace.com

My Interests

The Art of life ~ Music ~ Humor ~ Teaching ~ Sharing and Mother Earth

Fiona Apple performs "Extraordinary Machine"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2gor-sbFU

I'd like to meet:

"I would awake at sunrise, and without washing or dressing sit down before the easel which stood right beside my bed. Thus the first image I saw on awakening was the painting I had begun, as it was the last I saw in the evening when I retired . . . I spent the whole day seated before my easel, my eyes staring fixedly, trying to 'see', like a medium (very much so indeed), the images that would spring up in my imagination. Often I saw these images exactly situated in the painting. Then, at the point commanded by them, I would paint." - Salvador Dali,

Music:

Right off the top Led Zep is the best band I ever heard, they sill blow my mind after all this time. Aerosmith comes in next for all time great band ~ "Get Your Wings" wipes me out! In no particular kind of order - Canned Heat, Meat Puppets, The Kinks, Where would we be without the Dead? The Beatles, The Beau Brommels, Ten Years After, Hendrix, Captian Beefheart, Sass Jordan, Keb' Mo', JJ Cale ~ love J J Cale, John Mayall, Jeff Beck, Beck, The White Stripes, Howlin' Wolf, Dylan, Early Stones, Eric Burton, Traffic, Talking Heads, Yardbirds, Nina Simone, Grace Slick, Rita Coolege, Buffy St Marie, Michele Shocked, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy and Julie Miller, John Prine, Kasey Chambers, The Band, Janus Joplin, Elkie Brooks, Al Green, Moze Allison, John Hiatt, Pink Floyd, Keaton Simons. --- Give me time I'll remember em more and more as time goes by. new adds -, Feist, Kate Nash, Tori Amos, Brandi Carilie, Goo Goo Dolls, Sister Hazel. Dr. John, K T Tunsall, Gossip, early Joan Osborne, Violent Fems, Lucinda Williams Just about everything else out there, I have a huge love for most kinds of music. Mostly new music, keep it coming everybody, give me punk, rock, blues, folk and jazz.
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Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello - "I Want You"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOmhOumh-w

Movies:

My friend Ron Pastucha's work, gotta love it.



Taxi Artist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Wl3IOR5LM

Television:

The whole "Deadwood" series on HBO some serious work there

Books:

Stranger In A Strange land (was my first totally absorbed) by Robert Heinland Letters from Vincent to Theo - Like Water For Chocolate - The Four Agreements - Watermelon Sugar - Confederate General from Big Sur - Big Sur - On the Road -Spanner In The Works

Heroes:

Ash Nash - always proud of you little girl - - My wonderful (muse) julie zale. - - All my friends and family who've stuck by me all my "what were you thinking?" crazy life, they're always been happy to see me, never avoided or judged me and supported me in whatever hair-brained idea I pursued. ~~ Now - that's a hero for you! ~~ And all my fellow Artists in Life - Lore, Ron, Rod, Richard ChauDavis, JAHnic, Bucket, Ash, Arron, Victoria Light, Linda Lips, Guybo, Dean the Dude, Murf Baggs, Fast Matt, Tomas, Lugar (bless you my brother), my Cuz - Wish - and not to forget my new friends, Mary Mary and Cedar (such majestic work) along with all the rest who make an ART out of Life thru Music, Humor, Surf, our Mother Ocean, Growing, Giving, Teaching or just Love and Light. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." -Johann von Goethe

My Blog

Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello - "I Want You" - TRIPPY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJ2HK2Epqs ...
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:31:00 PST

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfTDDAstig ...
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:29:00 PST

Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello - "I Want You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJ2HK2Epqs ...
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:27:00 PST

My life as a dreamer

"In my dream, the Angel shrugged and said, "If we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination." And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand." I'm a Pisces, we Pisces are all dr...
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Wed, 28 May 2008 01:40:00 PST

Marc Ribot w/ Krauss & Plant - Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi7raSRXH9M Dig It !!...
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Wed, 28 May 2008 04:59:00 PST

Jimi Hendrix - Red House - Atlanta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFk83s8qMKw ...
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Wed, 28 May 2008 04:42:00 PST

Little Feat,Bonnie Raitt- Dixie Chicken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO3ZMdcL8Pc Lowell George R.I.P....
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:25:00 PST

Elkie Brooks - Pearl's A Singer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTnsT0d5SA ...
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Mon, 26 May 2008 11:31:00 PST

Elvis Costello with Lucinda Williams - Wild Horses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pliZuHXoz_c Classic Elvis and Lucinda GREAT STUFF!...
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Mon, 26 May 2008 09:44:00 PST

Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends - Joan Osborne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRy53fb_7Sc Classic Joan...
Posted by Buz Hitchcock Artwork on Mon, 26 May 2008 09:42:00 PST