Alan G. Brooks - Art and Illustration

Still Life Jimi Hendrix - 'Winter Still Life' - 10 x 8 inches oil on board. Pink Floyd - 68 - Syd Barrett. Acrylic and pencil on paper. 12 x 5 inches approx   Alternative York Road - Kings Heath 1967 - [ or not ] Above - so, after the previous post that got me thinking about Silver Street , York Road , Alcester Rd Sth etc and how it would be if Jimi Hendrix did do an impromptu 'concert' in Kings Heath - seeing as he was at the Ritz and not playing officially there that night. Maybe he'd spill out and over into the street somewhere? Well, anyway - it made for an interesting flight of fancy for a fleeting moment or two. Those fleeting moments have been a surreal platform for my imagination thats lingered now for over 56 years or so! Time Flies! Alan G Brooks

 True story this one.  It was 1967 and I had just been to the swimming baths. It was cold and typically English weather.  I was in Silver Street at the Fish and Chip shop. Getting some nosh to stave off the hunger that swimming had brought on. Also - fish and chips are much better after you've had a swim - and it's a bit of a ritual anyway. So, I bump into an old school friend out side the shop. He was a guitar player and getting involved in all of that. Guitars hadn't totally got me yet - but it was all around - and it was 1967 too! I wasn't prepared for the statement that unfolded next. My friend told me that Jimi Hendrix was here last week in this very road, York Rd. a few paces from where we were standing. This place had the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Pink Floyd - you name it - all flooding through its doors since 1963. All had played there and the building itself was no bigger than the average pub to squeeze everyone into. Those really were the days appare...

                            So - I'm getting bits and pieces together of Kings Heath so as to make a story about it. It'll be my story and it will all be the absolute truth. I know it will be the absolute truth because I will be making it all up myself! Bottom line is a lot of great things happened in - on - and around Kings Heath. Trouble is I only found out about many of them a little too late, it seems. So, the big one was my being a little too young at the time to appreciate the Ritz Ballroom in York Road. To find out that such a magical place existed and pulled in the likes of the Beatles, The Kinks, Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd - and more, is staggering. They all played there in the sixties. Just up the road from where I lived and 'grew up.'  So I thought I'd get involved in all of that past and hot rod it all up a bit. Not that a line up of bands  like the above need hot rodding or embellis...

 This or That is . . . Now and Then [Alan G Brooks 2018] ---| implanting of machine forces into humans |--- Man will, in time, manage to implant the death-forces in man, related to electrical and magnetic forces, with external machines. He will then be able to direct his intentions, his thoughts into the machine. ( Rudolf Steiner, Individuelle Geistwesen und einheitlicher Weltengrund, November 25, 1917, Dornach "Monskeeto" - Mosquito / Monsanto Alan G Brooks 

 Music - Art - Illustration I have put up some more pieces on my website that are sci fi and music themed.  I am settling in to work again after settling in to the new house. I am taking commissions again in music, sci fi and fantasy related art - cover art, logo design - the works. Back in the saddle is - [I guess] - what I'm saying - so Onwards and Upwards and back to it. See you there - gallery  Alan G Brooks Design

 Very nice! Lost Civilization #1 Character art #1 Flying Saucers - Harryhausen project - # Jay Brooks

 For all those in Lockdown - caged - chained and despairing . . . . . Prayer 300 Way Out I did the picture above around 1999, 1998 even. It shows a man in a stone circle - in reverence - who at the same time has yet to understand that he is not only encircled by these stones but at the same time enslaved by them.  Just before he is to awaken to the fact that he is imprisoned by that which he is in awe of, his attention will be taken by the cross which is starting to appear before him. The cross is within a crystal encasement, but will be revealed fully to the man as soon as he gives his attention to it.  For the hard of hearing it is well worth remembering to harken unto the words of the book of Malachi [4:5] where it is explained in the last words of the Old Testament -  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: and [4:6] And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the ch...