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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

The original Monk.



Yep. I'm talking about Thelonious Monk( not the the tv show). This is a late commission from Heroes Con.. It took a while for me to settle on a final composition.. I decided to focus on his face.. Initially I tried to incorporate the piano, but the face became too small.

And the whole "Monk at the piano" has been done countless time.. I didn't think we needed another version( read imitation) of that.

Here is the prelim and the final.

4 comments:

Craig Zablo said...

That's one cool, jazzy piece!

riq said...

Well said Craig.

shannon said...

Looks great Tariq! Now, who is this for? ;-)

riq said...

Well Shannon.. It's for this cool cat I meet at Heroes every year..

Anyway.. I'll be sending this to him this week.

riq.