Nellie lutcher (October 15, 1912 – June 8, 2 by jocko500
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Description
She was born here in lake charles and they going to rename an area of Lake Charles in her honor.
The painting is for an opening honor meeting the city is going to have,
Many local artists is entering paintings so this is mine
the painting is 30x40 inches.
Comments (32)
Cyve
WOW my friend... What an awesome painting... Marvelous scene and fabulous characters also !!!
claude19
exwceptionnal remembrance ! Great Art !!!
Madbat
Oh goody! I love it when you post your paintings and the original photo's Great stuff!
npauling
A lovely painting of this trio with super detail. I hope your painting gets picked to be hung in the gallery.
eekdog
You captured and painted it superbly, Jock. Truly amazing talent.
soffy
Excellent and so beautiful work****
UVDan
Beautiful painting!
Faemike55
Beautiful dedication and tribute
Richardphotos
outstanding likeness of the group and quality composition
donnena
oh WOW!!! GRAND job!! I hope you win!
Radar_rad-dude
Beautiful work on this fine creation! Love your reference image as well! Great and creative job, Jocko! Well done!
starship64
Fantastic painting!
Jean_C
A superb and very expressive painting , great art work, Jocko!
Hendesse
Excellent painting. Very very well done!!
1971s
Excellent
flavia49
wonderful image
jif3d
Nellie ROCKS and deserves to own area, neat painting skills Jock.
~Cheers~
durleybeachbum
I love that era of jazz. Super painting.
jendellas
Fabulous painting Jocko. x
daggerwilldo
Outstanding painting. I love what you did from that original photo. Your musician works are fantastic and this makes a great add. Well done my friend !
dochtersions
This is amazing good, Jock!
Star4mation
Super painting Jock :)
Crudelitas
Wonderful painting! Love the Colors. Very well done!
RodS
This is just wonderful, Jock! Man.... Every painting you do raises the bar, my friend!
DennisReed
Excellent Jock
emmecielle
Wonderful painting! :-)
junge1
Super painting Jock. I hope your entry is being recognized and properly acknowledged!
auntietk
This is great, Jock! I'm sure the City will be happy to have this hanging at their exhibition. Beautifully done!
helanker
What a fine painting again. You are getting better and better. Love this one.
anahata.c
I'll comment on both the photo and the painting, here. I saw the video this comes from, and I knew Nellie Lutcher's work, since I was a jazz pianist years ago. She was terrific. And she also did early R-and-B, which helped influence early Rock and Roll, in addition to her fine jazz singing and piano playing. Southern Louisiana has such an immense musical tradition, it's nearly a country to itself. Lutcher was typical of the huge range of music that's come out of your immensely rich area of the country.
You really transformed the photo to make it a total Jock painting. The photo (a video still, as you point out) is largely present in your painting; but you've given it great light, you've taken out several pieces of metal (stands, wires, etc), you've removed the "atlantic ocean" graphic, etc etc: You've purified it to a pure musical painting, and yet still kept the cloistered, intense 'crowdedness' of a small jazz ensemble. While her mouth is partly open in the video-still, you painted it closed in rapt in concentration here: That expression is very familiar to all musicians, and you know it so well from painting the souls of musicians for so long. She's all musical concentration in your painting. Immersion. The drummer's face has that too; and the bass player. In fact, the bassist has both concentration as well as that 'absent' look that all musicians get as they play: They're in another world: You capture that so often, in your painting.
You removed the city names from the map, and added what I assume is names of her songs. And, in a loving bow to Lake Charles, you put "Lake Charles Boogie" on top (up in the Arctic, lol), as a bow to the exhibition. But above all, you captured the immersion of musicians; and your broad brush turned the photo into a living piece of music: Great lighting on her, deep shadows, you gave color to her where the video has none; you gave reds and blues to her dress too, to help her stand out. And your texturing on her face and arms is almost sculptural: It's very alive. This is how you handle human beings in all your paintings. And you used deep blacks for the drummer and bassist, in striking contrast with your high whites and blue whites. You lightened the 'ocean' part too, to give great light behind the musicians. And you made the bass and drums alive. I love your brushwork on the drum shadows (caused by the sticks): It's almost like water. And you painted the hands and fingers perfectly for musicians: Ie, the curved fingers, the intense distorted movements, the graceful articulation (in the bassist's upper hand). This is painting about music through and through. And a wonderful tribute to the intensity of one of the terrific musicians from your area; you brought her to life. Wonderful work as always, Jock. You transform photos into true spiritual statements.
(And btw, thank you for your advice on how to rescue oil paintings. I appreciated it greatly. Sorry I took this long to thank you: When I return to RR, I'm rushing to get to everyone, so I'm always behind. But I appreciated your link and advice greatly.)