The Human Canvas - Marci...Fade to Back

Okay. Several interviews to get to. I'll be talking to jazz vocalist Jules Day in the near future. Also, Andy Fraser - if I haven't blown my welcome on that one (we were gonna do it in October). A couple of others, Stanley Clarke AND John Jorgenson - both, having been done, are a few months old by now. Jules, by the way, has a gig coming up at the First and Hope Supper Club in Los Angeles. February 25th. 8:30 pm. It's a Friday. Just so ya know.


Meantime...back to the Human Canvas...quite literally. Now first of all, thanks to Marci for the title of this one...Fade to Back. I was going through some e-mail, and found a few photos of Marci. Remember Marci? This is Marci.

If you missed the beginning of this, a click HERE will take you to it.  Marci was good enough to send a few photos showing the progression of how quickly these things fade. Here's a look at the entire back-piece, a few minutes after I finished.

This next shot is after one - maybe two days of sleep and washing.

And after one more...

I'm still working out something to "erase" immediately, but my best attempt so far resulted in what looked like a big, horrible bruise. We'll show that soon.

In a way though, it's the "permanence" of the ink - as it's being done - that makes this an interesting study...and continuing experiment.

When you make a mark...it's there...you have to work with it.

But they can turn out quite nicely.

Ya think?