Boardwalk Bar part 3

 Lots of parking in the main lot today, so I was able to get a spot.  Dropped my stuff off at the Studio, then tried my luck at the office.  No one there.  OK, so time for work instead.  After clearing my table I got back to work on my current block.  My plan for today was to do some more work on the figures in this piece, and that I did.  Some were better drawn, and I roughed in a few new ones, dancers and bar patrons, plus a bartender behind the bar.  Not done yet, but a little further along.  I also put in some silhouettes of palm trees on the roof of the building, simple shapes.  My thinking is that these are cast shadows of palm trees on the stretched roof and will be carved as such.  (I had already decided to switch this from the original night scene to a day scene, which matches more with the summer season that sees the main use of boardwalks, and days are much longer in the summer.  People tend to show up at boardwalk bars during daylight hours. As for the palm trees, in the past, every year, large palm trees were planted around the building at the Point Pleasant boardwalk that included Martell's (a seafood restaurant mostly) and the Tiki Bar.  (I tend to think that it was the Tiki Bar that wanted the palm trees)  They came from somewhere down south, where such things grow, and lasted the summer, but I guess died during the cold New Jersey winter, to be replaced with new living trees the following summer.  The tree shapes are also something else for the brayer to hit in those big empty spaces in the ceiling.  Results of today's drawing can be seen below:

At the end of my session, I cleaned up, put stuff back on the table, and tried the office again.  This time it was full of people, so I was able to apologize for being so upset the other day and doubting there was a keypad in the back.  Jeanne said that the apology wasn't necessary, but I thought it was, and she seemed happy to get it.  She also mentioned a possible tenant show in April but said no one had replied yet.  I told her in my case I no longer had access to that email, but was working on that, and meanwhile I could probably show something, my limit being the number of frames I can find.  I'll give more information here when I know it.

As far as music, once again I turned to my storage box and took one of my home burned specials.  This one included a full album from Sam Blue called Delta.  I think I found it in the blues section of a record store in Carbondale.  Not a great album, but one that is pretty good, with a few songs that I used to play on my radio show.  In fact, my guess is that I put it on disc to give me more options should I ever get back on the air again.  Since this left a lot of room on the disc, I filled it up with more vinyl from radio days, things that had been left in my blues section, but weren't really blues and wouldn't get much airplay on my blues radio show, and so I was advised to either just take them home or throw them away.  I chose to take them home.  So this disc also has 5 songs from Standing in the Shadows by RedDog, which is southern rock, but no blues, and 4 songs from a self titled album by the Snakes, which is mostly a rock album, though it does contain a cover of a blues song called 'Aberdeen ' (I know a version from Bukka White) that I did play on the air sometimes.  As with everything else I bring, good music to work to.