Admittedly, I'm not much of a writer. Considering most of my speech patterns are peppered with "less than acceptable" musician lingo and the fact that I'm always looking for a good laugh, please let me apologize in advance.
My life has been enriched tremendously by so many incredible people- at the top of the list is my wife/ best friend Adele as well as a huge thanks to the two greatest parents one could ever have.
This blog is actually dedicated to my friend Don Croft, who has in the past, encouraged me to write. I really admire Don for his many talents, especially his written works and personal style of living. I was first drawn to Don through his writing and derive tremendous pleasure reading his chronicles and observations about a wide and wild array of topics. Before I personally met Don, I thought his writings were "creatively enhanced" for effect and his work was a type of fiction that used truth and facts blended together as a potent hybrid. Was I ever OFF the mark. Don and his amazing wife Carol happen to be two of the most remarkable and unusual people on the planet.
First of all, besides being one of the smartest people I've ever met, Don has the perceptual awareness and other unusual skills that make you feel like a special needs, infantile, sewer snerd by comparison. He's aware of all kinds of things going on all around us that we completely miss and disregard. Stranger still is that Don carries around with him a type of 4th dimensional vortex where wild, strange, unusual and twilight zone happenings occur constantly which are chock full of intensity. He is a tremendous artist in that his life and work are completely united and genuine. Don is one of the coolest people I've ever encountered and is a 10 when it comes to NO B.S. He walks the walk.
I am grateful to him no end for his warm brotherhood and his revealing to me how much I truly miss in life, plus his generous offerings of useful advice for use as corrective and enrichment measures.
Tip of the hat to you, amigo.
Who is Kilroy ?
- John Kilroy
- Boston, MA, United States
- Kilroy graduated from The Art Institute of Boston, where he studied with Norman Baer and Walter Marks. Both these excellent teachers had a direct connection to the Brandywine School and American Illustration, as they were both students of Harvey Dunn, a Howard Pyle student. Early influences on Kilroy were Frank Frazetta and all the great artists involved with the Famous Artists School. He studied figure and landscape painting privately for 10 years with color master Robert Bliss, who was a student of Carolyn Wyeth. Kilroy is especially influenced by the teaching and art of modern masters John Asaro and Richard Schmid,whose alla-prima painting techniques and philosophy Kilroy took to heart. John is a member of the Richard Schmid and Nancy Guzik painting group, The Putney Painters. He was also inspired to become a painter because of a small group of Taos/Denver artists active in the 1970's. Among this group including Ned Jacob, William E. Sharer, Mark Daily, Len Chmiel, and George Carlson that really influenced Kilroy to open up to the ideas of diversified contemporary realism as a personal direction. Robert A.Monroe has been a huge inspiration and influence.
Why
I want you to ask yourself Why?
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