Of all the things I like about this painting, what really interests me is the storm (or the tempest) An approaching storm that to me has always represented that feeling when you know something is coming. The creative storm or a storm of inspiration, the feeling I get when I get some new ideas or right before I start some new paintings. When thinking about how to incorporate this composition into one of my paintings (I’ve had this idea for a while, I knew I wanted to make the landscape out of my collection of painting junk, but I wasn’t sure about the figures. I thought about the Ozzy album Blizzard of Ozz, and thought about an Ozzy tribute painting with him on one side and Randy Rhodes on the other. That didn’t seem right though. Then I thought about putting in Axl and Slash since I had the figures made. Maybe they would be on separate sides and some girls tossed in somewhere. The narrative always seems stupid though no matter what I come up with.
"Well I jumped into the river
Too many times to make it home
I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone
If it doesn't show give it time
To read between the lines
'Cause I see the storm getting closer
And the waves they get so high
Seems everything We've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die"
-Axl
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