Seeking an inspiration for a quick sketch, I took to Wikipedia to learn latest news. No! I have no desire to draw the New York governor who has resigned. None of the other news items for March 13th were drawing me. (Apparently, Wikipedia is on 'Univeral Time', which is seven hours later than Yuma time.) So I had a look at March 12 events, where I learned in 2005, Stavros Koujioumtzis, a Greek songwriter born in 1932 died. At Stavros' page, I read "Koujioumtzis has to show various co-operations with some of the most important Greek singers, Anna Vissi, Haris Alexiou, Yiannis Parios, Eleftheria Arvanitaki and Giorgos Kalatzis."

I know Anna Vissi, have downloaded one mp3 by her and would take more if more were sold in U.S. market. I've bought CDs by Haris Alexiou and Eleftheria Arvanitaki. I suspect I've heard Yiannis Parios on the HellinkosFM internet radio. For my quick sketch, I wanted a man. So I followed his link, where I found the link to his website. Parios has been very productive, from 1971 to 2006 he's made forty albums if I counted right. There's photos at his website.

I sort of melded together the 'direct gaze' one with the 'smiling' one:

Friday, March 14, 2008

"Pen and Ink Portrait of Old Man"
7:00pm

Yes, I used an online source