03/11/07: Post One-Eyed-Jack show @ Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in NYC; CRB with live painting, completed on-site in the dance studio space
MY CURRENT DREAM: I want to do a live painting every day for a year. That's right. I want to paint a picture a day for 365 days and document the whole thing. I want to do this with jazz musicians, jam band artists, improv freaks, progressive rockers etc.
If anyone at all has any idea on how to make this happen, please feel free to write me. I have no idea how to fund this idea, but I want to do it very badly.
Until this happens, I'm going to focus on getting prints done of all of the live paintings I've done up to this point. My website is currently under construction, but should be ready soon. At that point, people will be able to purchase prints from shows that they've been to...this will include some of our favorites such as U-Melt, The Juggling Suns, Particle, Tea Leaf Green, the DJ Williams Projekt, the Breadbox Band, the Everyone Orchestra, Buzz Universe, One Eyed Jack, Roots of Creation, Natural Breakdown, Ryan Montbleau and more....
Phish, The Grateful Dead, Leftover Salmon, The Disco Biscuits, STS9, Keller Williams, Max Creek, some good punk, Outkast, Black Eyed Peas, The Juggling Suns, U-melt, The DJ Williams Projekt, Blur, Pearl Jam, Man Mountain Jr., William Walter and Company (the band i do lights for), Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Ween, Digable Planets, the Pharcyde to name but a few....
GO LIVE OR GO HOME!!!
CRB Productions: all original, high quality live painting prints: graphic design: CD artwork: artistic promotion
11 x 14 Matted prints with original stamp: $50, 16 x 20 archival giclee prints: $120 w/watercolor paper, $180 on canvas
10/07/06: The Everyone Orchestra @ The State Theater** Falls Church, VA**
From left to right: Asher Fulero, Scott Law, Steve Kimock and Matt Butler**
Live painting by Crazyredbeard**
Proceeds of this painting went to the Conscious Alliance, a group that helps feed impoverished Indian reservations across the greater western US. Check 'em out!
So many. So so many. The Big Lebowski, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Big Trouble in Little Chinatown, Big....the bigness goes on and on.
How about...anything adapted from a Phillip K. Dick book or short story (Blade Runner, Minority Report, etc....)....Sin City, La Jette (and 12 monkeys), Indie flicks, Toxic Avenger movies (need to dust up on my Tromaville knowledge), Office Space, Zoolander, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tannenbaums, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, some japanime, Pulp Fiction, The Goonies, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and on and on and on....
Crazyredbeard paints live with Particle in Earl's Backyard, Tabernacle, NJ on 04/22/07
University Of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville,Virginia
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Psychology
Clubs: Phi Sigma Pi-National Honor Fraternity
C'ville Live-Dedicated to spreading live music in and around the Charlottesville area
Greek:
Phi Sigma Pi
1996 to 2000
Atlee High
Mechanicsville,Virginia
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: National Honor Society
Beta Club
Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field-1992-1996
Literary Magazine
Live painting artist and musician. Skills with lighting set up and manipulation.
crazyredbeard is thinking about not posting new art anymore. People keep using it without asking or giving me credit. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I'm a live performance and graphic artist that works with different bands in the live, experimental, electronic and jamband scenes. I try to channel through painting...to be a conduit for the Universal voice when at all possible. I dance on canvas. I collaborate with musicians to make interactive experiences with audiences and am always amazed what comes through the tube. My art connects me to people and to the Spirit in a way that's transcendental. Synchronicities often occur, happy "accidents", full circle occurrences...it's been an amazing ride so far. I truly believe in the transformative, divine nature of art and music and believe that this is as much of a spiritual journey as an artistic one. It truly connects me to the One the All and the Everything and I hope I can keep sharing these experiences with people for many, many years to come. Please check my blog often for past musings, reviews and current projects and CRB Productions for high quality giclee prints of past live paintings and other graphic artwork. Please contact me (crazyredbeard@crazyredbeard.com)if you'd like me to participate in a live painting experience for your event or if you'd like me to do a commissioned piece. Most of the artwork you see on this site as well as my website is available for purchase whether it be as originals or as giclee prints. If you see something you like, please let me know. CUSTOMIZABLE PRINT SIZES, FROM 8X10 TO ORIGINAL PAINTING SIZE BY REQUEST: PLEASE INQUIRE FOR PRICES...I WILL WORK WITH YOU TO FIND SOMETHING WITHIN YOUR PRICE RANGE
Many of the photos on this site and on my website are courtesy of the multi-talented Britt Nemeth:please check out her work if you get a chance. You won't be sorry you did.
DISCLAIMER: All of the artwork on this site is a combination of many lives converging into One moment. It's a gift that I share as freely as I am able. With that in mind, please feel free to link/use any of the images of my work that you find on this site as long as you credit me by name or link me to your page. Use 'em for your desktop or whatever else you'd like as long as you DON'T REPRODUCE THEM FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.
I am
I paint. I live. I love. I write. I counsel.
I think words are amazing. I find comfort in long drives and wide open days. I would eat music for sustenance if i could and I'm always looking for new groups to work with.
I started this site to network with other artists, bands that want live painting as part of their production, friends, etc. etc...I'm currently the senior counselor at a group home for boys, but I don't feel very senior. I love the kids i work for. They laugh with me sometimes and curse at me at others, but they're good kids and they always, always surprise me. I'd like to be an art therapist one day, in fact.
Other than that, I'd eventually like to tour as a live painter and make a living from my art, somehow connecting that with charity or with the kids. I have huge ideas but take small steps and above all, I have faith.
go check out William Walter and Company, the band that I'm lucky enough to do lights for. Experimental Appalachian hipabilly laced with jamming that almost beats grandmas frozen preserves. A workingman's songbird with a hammer.
Much love and many blessings to all. Namaste!
Calendar of UPCOMING LIVE PAINTING and MUSIC Events
FIASCO 3!! After having painted the first 2 Fiasco events with Funtown, CRB Productions is happy to return for a triumphant year. Be on the lookout for a full art display with brand new merchandise
Buzz Universe's live CD Release: Rocks Off Cruise in NYC, NY!!!
CRB Productions teams up with Weapons of Mass Destruction on October 3rd in Charlottesville, VA (HOMETOWN SHOW!!!!) to create a live mural to Dr. Fameus and KJ Sawka. I'm very excited to be a part of this production. There will be merchandise for sale on site.
Here's a little sample, just an example...how I could just paint a band...
Happy Buddha Is You : my lovely partner Julia adding some detail work on Sunday Aug.24th, 2008 during the Natural Breakdown: photo by Dolla Jill
Go to my website for prints, comments or special orders and other live music/art related stuff...sign up for my mailing list for show reviews/road journals/photos and more...
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone, really. Fellow artists, musicians etc...people who strive for the good of mankind and still leave room for error themselves...freaks, weirdos, gypsies, insanataurs. Ya know. The usual.
DO IT! GO! I BELIEVE IN YOU!
The Conduit...Inspired during the Disco Biscuits 10/31/00 Halloween show @ Traxx; Charlottesville, VA. Message me for prices and details if interested.
Another one from Vibes...
I always welcome guest artists...especially when they're as cool as THIS kid. (Photo courtesy of Kia Fagan)
Yo Barbarosaloco. Vote for Josh Phillips Folk Festival on the link below. You can help the band make it to the Chicago Blues and Bluegrass Festival. Please help them on the comeback trail, we can erase this deficit http://www. cbgbfestival. com/contest/profile. php?aid=70
hello there. have a better week? friday plans? Fogwater @ IS. will be a good show. good guys. take care. -kw i've not seen you paint but have heard good things. it's been tooooo long for me.
