Watching the rain on Elgin St., Ottawa, in April. Watching the light change and the traffic passing by in the rain.
Salutations 2 Y’All,
I bought a couple more 40” x 32” 1/2” canvases. I had the thought to acquire something smaller but decided to continue the current series for at least two more. They leaned against my hallway wall for a day or two awaiting the direction of my muse. This morning I spread papers on the floor and put the canvases side by side on the floor. A while later I poured on a layer of white undercoat paint. Flow Motion is on the move.
The title of this blog posting is a Bob Dylan quote. Rain is also the subject of a song I wrote which Murray Kinsley and I are currently recording.
Above; Lone tulip in early blossom in the April rain among the thorny wild roses along the Rideau canal, Ottawa.
“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan.
Isn’t it cute how all those rich and famous musicians talk about money . . .”Can’t buy me Love” . . . LoL . . . probably you can . . .
Well, I want to paint. I want to colour our world.
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Those tulips I photographed last week and revealed in the last blog posting are now in full bloom. I saw a few red blossoms along the canal earlier in the week. Now they are a garden of red and green.
Wow. It will be an early tulip time in 2010 Ottawa.
Tulips in the rain. These are in blossom (April 8) very early this year along the canal in Ottawa. The Tulip festival is in May. These ones will be done.
Above; Detail of a 40” x 32” x 1/2 “ acrylic on stretched canvas from the current painting series by John R Redmond
Here is my current painting series thus far.
40” x 32” x 1/2 “ acrylic on stretched canvas painting
by John R Redmond
40” x 32” x 1/2 “ acrylic on stretched canvas painting
by John R Redmond
40” x 32” x 1/2 “ acrylic on stretched canvas painting
by John R Redmond
40” x 32” x 1/2 “ acrylic on stretched canvas painting
by John R Redmond
Album contains photos of the most recent paintings in my series of 40” x 32” x 1/2” acrylic on stretched canvas.
I think I may have posted these lyrics before but here they reign again.
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” – Bob
The rain outside my window.
The rain outside my apartment building front door.
Album in the rain…
The following is a true story.
"Watching the Rain" - John Russell Redmond, July 2009
My mind was running peacefully
Across the breadth of a wide prairie
By my lonely friends I'd been left behind, again
I found myself on a rainy day
By a window in a mid-west cafe
Seated beside an old farming man
I was dreaming; staring at the rain
He said, "son you watch the rain like a farmer."
I said, "no."
He said, "yea."
We kept running sea to sea
A time of war with a torch for peace
Wisdom poured down; droplet flames in the rain
I met silence in the watery play
While sheltered there in a mid-west cafe
Seated beside an old farming man
I was hiding, hiding from the pain
He said, "son you watch the rain like a farmer."
I said, "no."
He said, "yea."
Your hands don't look like the hands
Of a man from the country
But you sure know how to watch
The rain coming down
Like a man from the country
Many a time I recalled the old man
Across the years that wandered and ran
Mystery shared with a word / in a tempest world unexplained
The life I’ve known reflected today
In calm words spoke on a grey rainy day
Seated beside a young running man
He was dreaming, staring at the rain
He said, "son you watch the rain like a farmer."
I said, "no."
He said, "yea."
Your hands don't look like the hands
Of a man from the country
But you sure know how to watch
The rain coming down
Like a man from the country
Currently friend Murray and I are working our way through recording this tune which I wrote. Murray does the arrangement and performs on multiple instruments. I sing lead and perhaps bang on guitar. The basement tapes; On this song we have put some drums, bass, organ, piano, acoustic guitar and ghost vocals. The ghost vocals are a rough version to help with arranging the tune. Later we will rerecord the lead vocals and perhaps some backup vocals. The mix is progressing.
You can here some of our other efforts via my Facebook page ‘My Band’ tab. Also there I have some very roughandunready recordings fresh from Howlin’ Dog Studios in downtown Ah-Tah-Wah; One song, one dog, one guitar, one mike.
You could try this link to Reverbnation too.
http://www.reverbnation.com/#/jredmond
Check out my last posting, “Elvis?? Macca??? A Walk In The Park Along The Rideau Canal In Downtown Ah-Tah-Wah,” to find a link taking you a story told by my friend Rob Bruner. While walking in an L.A park recently he and his wife had a chance encounter with Paul McCartney. They chatted for about twenty minutes. Rob shares their experience with Sir Macca. The next day Paul McCartney and band performed at The Hollywood Bowl.
Enjoy the rain.
Don’t just get wet.
John Redmond
Ottawa, Canada
