Joe Perry and his signature Les Paul

Joe Perry and his signature Les Paul, 21st April (black biro, printed face)

This is the portrait I did last time Joe Perry sat for me. Or stood. No, I’m just kidding. It’s the full body of the stand-up I have of Joe. I’ve done his head in more detail- you can see it here. The finished one is all blurred because I framed it all up and couldn’t be bothered undoing it to scan it. You pretty much get all of it in the first one anyway. The writing, in case you care, says "I’m holdin’ MY baby. How ‘bout you?" And that’s really Joe Perry’s signature! No, it’s not, I was just fooling. I wish I wasn’t though. It’s kinda hard! Because he’s a lefty he does strokes backwards sometimes and it’s unnatural to copy. It looks real enough, since it’s all fuzzy. Thanks to Allen’s Music in Bourke St for the stand-up… I mean, thanks to Joe for posing for me.