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Solitaire Miles

Member since:	12th Oct 2007
Location:	Chicago, IL USA
Occupation:	Jazz Vocalist / Artist
Interests:	music, digital art
Website:	http://solitairemiles.com
Bio:	Check out my royalty free stock account http://solstock.deviantart.com/ I am a jazz vocalist and digital artist living in Chicago, IL, USA. solitairemiles.com

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Beyond winter are thoughts of spring

<p><span class="story_comment">Listen to excerpts from my new CD, and become a part of My Music<br /><br />This time I want to do it on my own. No label, indie all the way. Armed with some wonderful new arrangements, I have lined up Chicago's best musicians and guest artists, including Willie Pickens, Paulinho Garcia, Art Davis, Jim Gailloreto, and Neal Alger, to name a few. My new record has been in production for several months, and is completely recorded, with the exception of some dubbing and tweaking here and there, but I am almost out of funds which we still need for mixing, printing, and promotion. I need donations of around $5,000, so please help, and become a part of my new album in in exchange for some wonderful gifts and services. I promise to make a first rate and unique record with your support. Donators will receive prints of my artwork, signed CD's and much more, check here for details <a href="http://solitairemiles.com/donateCD.html">http://solitairemiles.com/donateCD.html</a><br /><br />Wouldn't you rather invest in the original work of creative musicians who actually conceive the art, than support superficial mega-corporations? The time has come when we need to support independent musicians, and not the Corporate Big Brother's of the music industry, or of any industries for that matter. Fight Big Box, pre-programmed, mediocre music and support indie artists like Me. I realize that times are tough right now for everyone, and as a musician and artist working in Chicago I am still trying to produce new, authentic jazz.. Thank You in advance for any help you may be able to provide...</span></p>
<p><span class="story_comment">*This is a combo of photomanipulation and digital painting with a Wacom</span></p>
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers <br />by Emily Dickinson <br /><br />Hope is the thing with feathers <br />That perches in the soul, <br />And sings the tune without the words, <br />And never stops at all, <br /><br />And sweetest in the gale is heard; <br />And sore must be the storm <br />That could abash the little bird <br />That kept so many warm. <br /><br />I've heard it in the chillest land, <br />And on the strangest sea; <br />Yet, never, in extremity, <br />It asked a crumb of me.

A combination of painting in Photoshop on a grid and photomanipulation

A Golden Day <br />by Paul Laurence Dunbar <br /><br />I Found you and I lost you, <br />All on a gleaming day. <br />The day was filled with sunshine, <br />And the land was full of May. <br /><br />A golden bird was singing <br />Its melody divine, <br />I found you and I loved you, <br />And all the world was mine. <br /><br />I found you and I lost you, <br />All on a golden day, <br />But when I dream of you, dear, <br />It is always brimming May<br /><br />This was inspired by the work of Maxfield Parrish.<br />A combination of photomanipulation and digital painting.

This is a combination of photomanipulation and digital painting.

<p>Come hither, Child <br />by Emily Jane Brontë </p>
<p>Come hither, child-who gifted thee <br />With power to touch that string so well? <br />How darest thou rouse up thoughts in me, <br />Thoughts that I would-but cannot quell? </p>
<p>Nay, chide not, lady; long ago <br />I heard those notes in Ula's hall, <br />And had I known they'd waken woe <br />I'd weep their music to recall. </p>
<p>But thus it was: one festal night <br />When I was hardly six years old <br />I stole away from crowds and light <br />And sought a chamber dark and cold. </p>
<p>I had no one to love me there, <br />I knew no comrade and no friend; <br />And so I went to sorrow where <br />Heaven, only heaven saw me bend. </p>
<p>Loud blew the wind; 'twas sad to stay <br />From all that splendour barred away. <br />I imaged in the lonely room <br />A thousand forms of fearful gloom. </p>
<p>And with my wet eyes raised on high <br />I prayed to God that I might die. <br />Suddenly in that silence drear <br />A sound of music reached my ear, </p>
<p>And then a note, I hear it yet, <br />So full of soul, so deeply sweet, <br />I thought that Gabriel's self had come <br />To take me to thy father's home. </p>
<p>Three times it rose, that seraph strain, <br />Then died, nor breathed again; <br />But still the words and still the tone <br />Dwell round my heart when all alone. </p>
<p>This was inspired by Picasso's earliest work.  I didn't quite get the smoothness of his tones, but I really tried for the look in the child's eyes.</p>

<p>For my 2008 Art Calendar <a href="http://solitairemiles.com/calendar.html">http://solitairemiles.com/calendar.html</a></p>
<p>The model is the lovely Mary Ida Walker Larsen from deviantART <a href="http://mizzd-stock.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-Mucha-Portrait-2-69710675">http://mizzd-stock.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-Mucha-Portrait-2-69710675</a></p>
<p>I really enjoy working with her images because she is a very creative model.  Her costumes and poses are brilliantly thought through, and the quality of her photography is very good, making her photos a joy to work with!</p>

Inspired by the Disney/Dali short "Destino"

<p><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="+2">Hope </font><br /><em>by <font size="+1">Emily Jane Brontë</font></em> </p>
<p>Hope was but a timid friend; <br />She sat without the grated den, <br />Watching how my fate would tend, <br />Even as selfish-hearted men. <br /><br />She was cruel in her fear; <br />Through the bars, one dreary day, <br />I looked out to see her there, <br />And she turned her face away! <br /><br />Like a false guard, false watch keeping, <br />Still, in strife, she whispered peace; <br />She would sing while I was weeping; <br />If I listened, she would cease. <br /><br />False she was, and unrelenting; <br />When my last joys strewed the ground, <br />Even Sorrow saw, repenting, <br />Those sad relics scattered round; <br /><br />Hope, whose whisper would have given <br />Balm to all my frenzied pain, <br />Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven, <br />Went, and ne'er returned again! </p>

$Refractions$ $This is the cover art I created for the book \"Charmed Destines\" which was released this summer by Luna Books. This image is the propery of Luna books, and all rights are reserved.$

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