The Artistic flies of Mark Romero

[hankaye]

Vicki, Howdy;

George is the one with the cigar .....

"Say G'night Gracie"

hank

[kanutripr]

OK let's go with this. Salvador Dali would be proud.

And Hank G'NIGHT!


Vicki

[tie2fish]

I guessed wrong too, Vicki; I was sure the one that looked tobacco stained was George, but apparently that golden hue was from second hand smoke .

[willowhead]

Bill, that "golden hue" was just my way of expressing her bubbly personality. Had nothin' to do with cigar smoke. i always saw George as the passive tie me up type, and Gracy, as the dominatrix (like that spellin' ), with the whip and chains.
The fly below is 10 times as bright as it looks in this pic..........i dunno what happened............that bead is especially bright........but none of that came through in this pic............. It's named after a Barry White tune on a Quincy Jones date from the 80's called "Back On The Block".........one of the greatest dates of ALLLL time. i still listen to that (as all classics) every chance i get. Listenin' to it right NOW!

[letumgo]

Mark - have you ever seen Cashmire Goat? I found some at my local fly shop last week, very nice stuff. Long fibers like the wing on this fly.

[willowhead]

Hi, yes i've seen it a few times.........i love anything that's got long fibers. The wing on the above fly is another example (there are a few in this "thread"), of the Just Pretending wig things they sell at the dollar stores at Holloween time. i've got it in a dozen colors.....(sent Vicki all the colors i had more than once), and they are only a buck apiece. It comes on a hair band. Chicks wear them over their own hair, and some guys too i expect. Specially in S.F. You could do at least a couple dozen big ass flies like this with one of them, and maybe 100 or more small flies, like for fishin'. i don't use it that often, so once a year access to it is fine. The GREAT thing about it is, it lays (and pretty much stays), right where you put it. When your rotating the fly to do the head (coats), it falls, but all together............not in 16 different directions all over the damn place. So it's easy to control it's out of controlness. Nice stuff to work with actually, and it has a bit of flash built right in. i dig the stuff. One buck per color...........OH YEAH!

[kanutripr]

There is a painting by J E H MacDonald (famous Canadian, one of the group of Seven) called The Tangled Garden that is ABSOLUTELY my very favourite painting. It was actually quite controversial at the time. It was very large and the critics decided it was too large and felt too much importance placed on such a mundane subject. Anyway it reminds me of this fly. The colours, the details in the bead. the way the materials fall, much as the spent sunflowers and flowers in MacDonald's garden.



Vicki

[willowhead]

Vicki, flowers is the first thing i thought of when i saw this bead............i realy wish you could see this fly in hand. It is so bright and MUCH more vivid in real life...........i guess the lighting was just screwed up when Misa took the pic.............who knows. And it has a KILLERtag, which you can't even see in this pic. Anyway, i'll be sure to get a much better pic for the book. And you're one of only thee people besides me who knows the new title.....Misa and Bill are the other two. So keep that quite. Domo.....

[kanutripr]

What new title?

I was imagining the colours more vivid. Try looking up that painting and let me know what you think.

Here's a link. The photo isn't very good though.

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthis ... onald.html



Vicki

[willowhead]

WOW that's almost scary...........YES, it's exactly like you said and the bead is right THERE. That's the same thing i saw when i first looked at the bead........WOW! That artist Micky D, he be very heavily influenced by Vincent Van Gogh.....one of my all-time favorites. My flies are meant to be impressionistic.....not replicas....or statues, like so many so-called classic salmon flies are.........they're stiff, and stagnant to a large degree.............and bein' that they were originally meant to be fished.........they sure as hell couldn't of had much movement. But anyway........a fly as a painting is what i'm into.....and this bead and your Mr McDonald are both right THERE.
i just happen to like using the beads because it incorporates an outside influence just the same way any other material in a dressing does. It affects your thinking and your mood and your spirit. Thankx for sharin' the artwork Vicki.....you be way cool.