Dragons are real and magic is real. You can see Fooble perform kid’s shows and he will explain how he learned the ancient secrets and can help you realize your potential for magic. I saw them at Oregon Country Fair. They also perform at other events including faerie worlds.
Noah Mclain performed with many guests including JenUine the unicorn. Check out their website here.
This band is totally fun and dresses in wacky costumes. They played for us on the grass in skinner’s butte park. Check them out here. I enjoyed their originals about elephants and bunnies and their cover of Radiohead’s “national anthem.” I feel I really got loose for these drawings and drew them in a Jules Fieffer and or William Blake kind of style. Shaded with copics.
This delightful show, sponsored by Eugene Musicians Against Sexual Violence had psychedelic oil and water and ink and paint projections on the wall throughout the whole show provided by Mad Alchemy. To make these drawings, I inked, then penciled, then worked in images of oil and water shows in the background.
I also added some gentle layers of lime and onion prints from my work at Mecca. ( This was fun, notice the “shivasshivasshivas” written in the background. Then I took a layer and made it super dark, put that over the regular layer, then erased circle shaped holes around their heads. If I had been less than confidant with my drawing, I sure could distract from messy details (such as sloppy hands) with some of this psychedelic mess, huh?
The Shivas play classic surfy rock and roll. Some tracks sound like the Kinks, others like the Doors or the Velvets, they all sound catchy and awesome. There are so many classic tracks. I love to listen to them while I drive, and I sing them in my head all the time. “You know what to do,” “you make we wanna die,” “Thrill yr Idols,” “baby I need you,” and many catchy more songs.
My favorite is probably “big mama casio.” (the swirl of the bands name looks pretty cool with the swirl of the oil and ink behind it! You might have to look hard to see the onion prints!
Here is this illustration in a more traditional style. I had a fun time with detail in the shirts.
EGOTONES play fierce, tried and true surf rock with the occasional wurlitzer keyboard riff and funny samples from old movies much like Man… or Astroman? I will definitely be checking them out more. The above drawing is superimposed over an oil and watercolor photograph. This next one I started filling it in with marker.
Now here is the final piece with shading and full colors.
There were other great bands too! I really enjoyed “the blimp” (riffs reminded me of Zappa) but I wasn’t able to draw them. Psycho Magic is a great band too!
This drawing has been in my notebook awhile. I found a video of their performance from 2016 in YouTube! This troupe has many more performers that I didn’t draw, and I’m not sure about their costumes and hair color, and the page has some splotches on it because my markers were water based and I had it in the rain! It was a good show, full of laughs.
Of all the comics I saw at bumbershoot, Kate Berlant was my favorite. Her show was so utterly confusing and unique. She would threaten us that if we weren’t up for staying for the whole three hours we should just get up and leave right now! I also loved that she steals makeup as a radical feminist act.
Khadija Hassan was quite funny too! There were so many women and people of color at the shows, I really appreciated that.
Every August for many years now I have trekked to trapper creek Alaska to perform for people in a muddy woods on a stage made of recycled pieces and a sound system run off a generator.
Look, it’s me! Photo by Kevin Morisky. Below is Riesa Rose.
I got to see some great acts, including… Yeehaw, the Shoot Dangs!
And the Avery wolves
The Jephries!
Harp Daddy and the Mojo
Plus lots of decoration, the natural kind and the kind arranged by humans.
I got to perform stand up comedy and poetry alongside these slam poets and MCs at the Oregon Country Fair Chez Rey’s stage. It was a wonderful event tucked away in the trees. It was so special having ASL interpreters there!
Here is a video of Me doing the animal jokes. (It does cut off right before the final punchline)
Grayson and Susan!
Eleven Eyes.
I also took these photographs of people having fun, in costume, being themselves out there in the woods, with clowning, juggling, music and great food all around.
The Green shape on the right is a person in costume.
These costumed performers were on stilts. Here she is down on the ground so you can see her makeup.
A giant chess set!
A GIANT backgammon set!
A marionette perfomance. 
I saw three pianos on the grounds that people were playing (and resting under).
This installation is known as the Pink Room
Incredible, the THE REAL Donald TRUMP with huge hands came to visit us.
Strongman Jon Deline!
Puppets!
Yogoman is from Bellingham Washington and I love them! Sweet ska and soul, with a violin! New Orleans style riddims! My favorite song is “Chakka chakka.” It’s so catchy and poppy!
Watch them play “Pass the O.” Songs like “Please oh please” sound thirty or forty years old, authentic reggae. Total booty shaking music. I caught them at the Oregon Country Fair and what a sweet smooth sound they have.
I have been so busy and not posting my drawings, or even coloring them! Here are a few I made recently, as in last month. Childspeak play post rock spazzy wacky fuzz and are never boring or predictable!
Kef play Balkan music! Alternative brass bands are in! Rebirth, galactic, Balkan beat box, and Slavic soul party are popular but there are many more all over the United States. Some of them gather on the west coast for HONK and Yonk fest.
At a street fair in Kesey Square in downtown Eugene (that charged nothing to vendors), I drew portraits and performerd comics and banjo. The event was not a fundraiser, just a free fair for everyone to enjoy Kesey square in downtown Eugene, a public space that will sadly soon become another overpriced apartment complex because people with money want more of it.
I drew these portraits and more. I hoped to do art lessons for children but there were no children.
I could draw people at your event!
Isaac and the Awkward Situations 