New Years Eve 2024 with Davina and the Vagabonds

Posted on January 4, 2025 by portfoliolongo.com

Annyth and I joined our dear friends Darcy and Chris to ring in the new year at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, MN with Davina and the Vagabonds, a jazz blues band founded in 2004 by front-woman Davina Sowers. We fell in love with the group, especially Davina. By the way the Dakota handed out little bells, so we actually did ring in the new year!
A free-hand iPad painting of Davina done in the Sketch Club app with tweaks in Procreate and iColorama:

Davina herself. See reference photo below. Click on image to enlarge.

My own reference photo.

The bow before the encore.

Our Annual Christmas Letter: A

Posted on December 13, 2024 by portfoliolongo.com

As you well know, we here at portfoliolongo.com have a holiday tradition that goes back all the way to 2013, yes, our Annual Christmas Letter! (Please continue reading below.)

At our annual retreat in early December the Board of Directors and Senior Management – both of us – meet and, after a self-facilitated process that incorporated large sheets of adhesive, butcher-block paper and color-coded stickies, decided ultimately that the 2024 letter would be A, mainly because of our new facility in Canaan Township, Athens County, Ohio. Please click here to view posts previous years’ letters.

PATSCH AUTO BUS CO. INC.

Posted on December 11, 2024 by portfoliolongo.com

Several years ago I saw an awesome photo on Flickr taken by David Wilson, I believe in 1969, of one of the old buses that I would see almost every day of my childhood growing up in Canonsburg, PA. Click here to see that photo. I’d been so taken by that photo that I decided to use it as a reference for a freehand, digital painting on my iPad Pro in the Sketch Club app. The image brings back fond memories, and I can almost hear and smell that bus going through this intersection in Houston, PA, a neighboring town.

Click HERE to see a Patsch Auto Bus Co. token.

(click on image to enlarge)

Holiday Selfie

Posted on November 29, 2024 by portfoliolongo.com

Lean in.
Sketch Club stats:

Screenshot

Steve Zarate, lyricist, vocalist, and instrumentalist (Athens, OH)

Posted on November 21, 2024 by portfoliolongo.com

Back on September 7, 2024 I took a photo of Steve Zarate performing live at the Athens Farmers Market. Over the last few days I’ve been rendering a freehand, digital image of that reference photo on my iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil and the Sketch Club app with a tweak or two in iColorama. Steve’s music complements the fresh and funky feel of the Market.

11 years here (wherever here is)!

Posted on November 12, 2024 by portfoliolongo.com

…a collection of images – mostly digital – and other impressions…

Emaline at the Cannabis Museum

Posted on November 10, 2024 by portfoliolongo.com

Emaline

That’s Emaline Duquette, and what a pleasure it was to hear her soulful voice at a Tiny Museum Concert at the Cannabis Museum the other night.

Sketch Club Stats

Graham Nash in Athens, OH

Posted on October 21, 2024 by portfoliolongo.com

“We’re going to take a 20 minute break so I can take a pee. You try doing this at 82.”
An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories with Graham Nash at the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium on the campus of Ohio University.

What an absolutely wonderful and energetic performance! See tour dates right here. Band members include: Todd Caldwell: Plays keyboards and sings; Shane Fontayne: Plays guitar and sings; Zak Djanikian: Plays guitar, sax, mandolin, and drums; and Adam Minkoff: Plays bass, guitar, and sometimes drums.