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Here are two more Collages of various Latin albums, the first one is a collage of various reissued Latin CDs, the second one is a collage of CDs from the FANIA record label…enjoy.

So here is my latest Digital collage for the latin music website that I’m currently working on…It’s for the cuban section of the website, it therefore only has a few cuban musicians that Ernesto felt should be included…though there are obviously hundreds more that we could’ve chosen from…the artists in this artwork are Fajardo & his orchestra, Silvio Rodriguez, Arturo O’Farril, Gloria Estafan, Chano Pozo, Juan Formell & Benny More.

So here is a Digital Photoshop collage that I did earlier today for Ernesto (owner of Eden Musical Records), of whom I wrote about in my last post. Anyway the following tango musicians can be found in this artwork: Tita Merello, La Orquesta de Alfredo De Angelis, Julio Sosa, Roberto Goyeneche, Anibal Troilo, Astor Piazzolla & of course Carlos Gardel. I overlayed a transparent yellow-brown color to give the black & white photos a vintage sepia quality…

Here is the main image for the homepage of the Latin Music store website that I’m working on currently for one of the last remaining Mom & Pop Latin Music shops here in the tri-state area, Eden Musical Records (based out of Clifton, N.J)…I basically did a digital collage of various photos,of some historically important Latin-Jazz/Salsa/Cuban Musicians and edited/rearranged their positions/color in photoshop… enjoy! ( Hey and by the way, why not see if you can name all of the musicians?, if you can’t, & are from the Caribbean, then you have to go out and do something really extreme to remedy the sad musical state you’ve attained, e.g. instead of listening to what the typical latin commercial radio stations are playing these days, you could actually listen to good quality old and new Latin music every Saturday from 12pm-4pm on 89.1, i.e. Vicki Sola’s “Que Viva La Musica” show. But, in order for this to work and stick, you would have to do it for about a year to at least counter the sacrilegious musical taste on your present palette …aaahhh!! sorry about the side ranting, as you can see, I’m really into the importance of remembering the musical history of the various Latino cultures……………until next time!……………….. )

Hello folks, although I haven’t posted anything new in the past 2 weeks, I’ve been quite busy finishing up a commissioned drawing as well as working on a website for the local Latin music store where I buy all of my Latin music for my ever-expanding Salsa/Latin-Jazz/old Cuban music collection, Eden Musical Records based out here in Clifton, NJ( which by the way, you can actually check out the website in its early stages at www.Edenmusicalrecords.com). The commissioned Drawing or Double-portrait was completed on October 31st. Starting another person’s online music store & getting the drawing delivered to the patron took up most of my valuable time, I therefore couldn’t find any time to post the finished piece when it was done . But I’m finally posting it now, along with the other previous drawings in order for you to see the process of the drawing as it developed from a rough sketch to the completed artwork. Enjoy.

The finished piece after 29 hours & half.

The End.