i could've just painted a book with lines in its pages and scribbled some made up names and statistics to satisfy today's watercolour prompt. but no! i decided to emulate an image from google images and i thought that it was easy to do. no, no, no, no, no! took me a whole hour and a backache. in the end i decided to just paint a likeness of the image. used gouache and black pigment liner.
i remember long ago back in the old country, we had what we called long playing records in different colours -- rosemary clooney's was red, harry james was multi-coloured, phase 4 was simply white. then we had 45's in black, pink, green and blue. we had quite the collection of 45's, 73's and 33-1/3's and i loved to play with those coloured adapters for the 45's.
our father assembled stereos from scratch, from radio to speaker to record players and constructed the cases, too, with rolling doors. he was a genius! the man could do just about anything. some of his clients would give him records as payment or bonus and we relished it so i am familiar with the record labels 'decca' and RCA victor.
sadly all those were lost in the many floods that pervaded the village in those olden times. sometimes i wish i could go back and salvage those records and the books i had then. but somewhere in my spare room with all those boxes, is a signed double album of don mclean when he performed in manila. and a picture of myself kissing paul anka also during his 'time of your life' concert tour in manila. must find them!
@jacqbb - yes, one more to go! i don't know how @casablanca did the 100 days of painting. but goodness, you're so great it's hard to keep up with you! but i would like to do this again next year.
Kudos to you for doing the painting a day this month! All of them remarkable. This one is no exception. Fun to walk down memory lane with you. I remember records and I’m glad you chose this for your painting
Well done.