Merci beaucoup, Mellody !

Avec grand plaisir mon amie Vanessa

Joyeux Noël, chère Mellody

Immense merci chère Vanessa Très bonnes Fêtes de Fin d'Année

You did it, did it , did it . And you certainly did it wonderfully well :whip Great to see the first Roger Miller on the site. Well done to both of you

Well done to Team Stars Portraits for creating a Roger Miller gallery here and putting my drawing in it. Many stars from before the Internet and from the offline world aren't on the star maps of art websites yet, so it's good to add one now and then. Thank you very much for getting me to realise that I had submitted nothing for quite a while, and for getting me to draw again. I'm surprised I was out of inspiration and energy for that long, and also surprised what my finished portrait looks like as my reference photo, used for a CD cover, looks like this: https://www.sunrecords.com/artists/roger-miller

You certainly seem to have caught an expression in your portrait which I don't see in the photo!!! Your work has a strong sense of R.M.s personality , and (for me ) a lot of his humour !! He was a wonderful talent , and sharp as a razor. I read that one day while driving , he saw a large advertising notice " Trailors for sale or Rent "....

Indeed, indeed, and I think you might like the Roger Miller biography by Don Cusic I'm currently reading, "Dang Him!" ... I'm so happy that you saw "the wild child's" personality and humour in my little portrait. I see it's night... Well dear Tom, you made at least my next 24 hours.

Thank you for the recommendation of the book. Because of that I have it downloaded to my "kindle". Unfortunately I have just started a real book by Patterson, and will complete it before starting my R.M. one But it is something to look forward to

You're welcome. My turn to thank you. You've just reminded me that before starting my current read, I was reading another book, about which I completely forgot, ha, ha! Well, enjoy your current read and also your next.

Good to know books are waiting for us. Heather, my wife often has two books on the go at one time !! I can't do that

Your wife seems to have a sense of organisation that undisciplined minds like mine can't even imagine acquiring

I'm with you !!

Merry Christmas to you and your family

A Very Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Happy New Year to you and yours Vanessa

Thank you very much

I've managed to write my instrumentless instrumental cover of "Walkin' in the Sunshine" and to make a video out of it. First I used MuseScore, software (freeware) with which it's possible to write music scores when you know how to write music. The software can play what you're writing, so you can choose among lots of virtual instruments depending on the sound you want to create, and then you can play the music and display a virtual piano keyboard to see how it handles what you've written, which is rather funny to watch. Then I used another freeware called OBS to make a video thanks to screen capture, and converted the resulting file into a video that I posted to my little YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7NF0jojRKs

beau travail

Merci beaucoup, Claire

avec plaisir

Bonnes Fêtes, Claire

Bonnes fêtes à toi également

Thank you very much Penelope

Merry Christmas

Thank you Happy New Year

You're welcome. Happy New Year to you too!

Nice art Vanessa, you made Tom happy!

I'm glad if I did, it's cool when sharing (he)artwork adds extra happiness to a friend's usual happiness. Thank you very much, dear Stephen

Merry Christmas to you and yours

Merci beaucoup

Bonnes Fêtes

ah King of the road superbe !

Merci beaucoup Didier

Bonnes Fêtes, Didier

A toi aussi Vanessa, bonnes fêtes de fin d'année !!

Great with the colors! So fine to see new art from you!

Yes, it has been a while hasn't it? I'm like a car I guess, sometimes I roll, sometimes I stall. I too am glad to be back here with something new to share. I'm happy you like this drawing, Dorit, thank you very much

That's great, Vanessa. I took a break for one year. But since september I'm back with new inspirations. Sometimes it is good to take a break. So welcome back and I will look forward for new art from you!

Well you see, apparently I you was so sure you'd left for good that I'd stopped following your gallery, heavens! Sorry about seeing that and fixing the problem only now. Thus I'll see when you share new art too.

No problem. Thank you for the new follow Stay healthy and happy!

You're welcome, stay cool and take care

Merry Christmas dear Dorit

I wish you the same, dear Vanessa! Take care and stay healthy!

Vanessa voilà un beau portrait avec un léger rictus et ce regard très expressif bravo bon choix de photo et content de te revoir sur ce site

J'ai utilisé le choix de photo d'une maison de disque pour être sûre qu'il soit bon, mon apport par rapport à ça est surtout la mise en couleurs. Contente de revenir ici avec quelque chose de nouveau à partager, j'étais "en panne" depuis un moment. Merci beaucoup, Jacques

Bonnes Fêtes, Jacques

Merci à toi Vanessa je te souhaite la même punition et je poursuis que pour la saint- sylvestre le même châtiment...

MAGNIFIQUE !! Quel beau regard ! jolie pose!! super les teintes, j'aime ce trait noir des contours que tu dessines ! beaucoup de charme !! je ne connais pas, j'ai regardé, très entraînante cette chanson, rien qu'en claquant les doigts!! "King of the road ", de nombreuses reprises.

C'est ma famille qui m'a fait découvrir Roger Miller... Et je pense que tu le connais sans le savoir si tu as vu le "Robin des Bois" de Disney. C'est là que les versions françaises sont des pertes par rapport aux versions originales, en fait c'est Roger Miller qui prête sa voix au coq et on l'entend dès le début du film, sur le plan vocal il faisait des trucs assez rigolos et même incroyables par moments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJog7PfkNRY

Ah ! oui! super! très marrant ce coq, très élégant aussi. Mais oui! que je connais!! Merci Vanessa ! ce clin d'oeil à ce chanteur.

Avec grand plaisir.

Bonnes Fêtes de fin d'année, chère Anita

Merci Chère Vanessa ! Je te souhaite une douce § belle nouvelle année qui commence. Gardons espoir !

Allez, on y croit à 2022 ! Moi aussi je te souhaite plein de bonnes choses !

Je vais changer de décennie. Cette année.

Je viens de le faire, 50 balais dans mon placard et ça se passe bien. Fait insolite, j'ai les cheveux plus blancs (enfin, poivre et sel avec surtout du sel ) que ma mère, aucune de nous ne les colore (j'ai arrêté il y a quelques années et mes tifs sont en meilleure santé depuis). Et en fait ça me va, j'aime bien cette couleur, ça adoucit le visage et ça rend les gens polis dans les lieux publics

Bonne idée Vanessa ! Mes 50 aussi , bien encaissé mais 10 de plus, ça commence à compter. "Il y a plus d'années derrière nous que devant, façon de parler" et nous sommes plus déglinguées aussi, pour mon cas. La liste s'allonge, j'aimerai bien que l'on m'oublie un temps. là, dessus, tout les gens sont égaux, nous vieillissons tous.

Exact, et ce dès notre naissance, ce dont nous ne sommes pas conscients aussi longtemps que nous nous considérons jeunes (j'ai arrêté ça à 25 ans, le coup du quart de siècle au compteur m'a fait un choc face à quoi un demi passe beaucoup mieux, va comprendre ) Pour le côté déglingué, je ne connais aucun adulte qui y ait échappé, on va dire que le caractère se forge comme une épée et que les aléas de la vie servent à la fois de marteau et d'enclume, avec nous entre deux - et bing bing bing , si on résiste à ça en n'étant que fêlés c'est qu'on est solides S'il existait un parapluie contre les "tuiles", l'inventeur deviendrait l'homme le plus riche qu'il y ait jamais eu. Et oui, tout le monde a sa part de soucis, gros ou petits, sans doute parce que sans ça on risquerait de s'ennuyer.

Oui ! tu as raison. Certains évènements , on s'en passerait bien. le sort, quelquefois s'acharne un peu trop souvent, on a le droit d'avoir, un 2e puis même un 3e rappel, comme pour les injections anti-covid. Cela devient usant, de toujours devoir se relever. Un jour, je baisserai les bras, je n'en n'aurai plus la force. Oh !comme je suis rabat joie , ce soir, j'ai ma raison.

Hé bien il y a des moments où je ne suis pas très joyeuse non plus, donc aucun souci par rapport à ce que tu dis, ça ressemble à ce que je me dis par moments, à certains moments de la journée ou de la soirée plus qu'à d'autres. Voilà ce qui arrive quand la météo de votre région déteint sur votre humeur. En même temps, ça vous apprend à trouver qu'il fait beau quand il ne pleut pas, rien à voir avec les personnes qui se plaignent du temps au moindre petit nuage. Voilà qui me donne envie de dire vive la Normandie et vive la Bretagne...

La météo chez moi, ne joue pas beaucoup sur mon humeur. Et puis, il ne pleut pas , non plus, tous les jours. J'y suis habituée, Sauf quand il y a du brouillard, du vent froid et de l'humidité dans l'air alors, je sors peu. C'est plutôt, les aléas de la vie qui ne sont pas toujours tendres. Vive nos 2 régions, quels magnifiques paysages, que se soit à l'intérieur des terres ou sur le littoral.

Très beau portrait

Merci beaucoup

love the wry smile and laid-back attitude

Thank you very much

Absolutely gorgeous .. lovely moments throughout - even the dark jacket has a pleasing pattern

I'm happy to see my little tribute so heartwarmingly welcome. The way the drawing process turned out was unexpectedly right. When I start from a black and white photo and add colours, I can never tell if the outcome will be a miss or a hit. I only know that if it's a complete miss I won't post it at all And actually, it nearly was, because the paper wouldn't take the medium I first used for the jacket. What eventually worked was a black permanent marker I would never have thought of using for drawing until I did Thank you very much for your great comment, David

Funny I was just speaking with someone about King of the Road - his songs were regularly played on radio when I was young (AM radio ... HAHAHA) ... was he popular in Europe?

Not really, except maybe in Great-Britain, blame it on language barriers, translations and adaptations. A singer called Hugues Aufray did French versions of "Dang Me" ("Pends-moi") and "King of the Road" ("On est les rois") but radios didn't play actual Roger Miller singles, it's a pity. As to Disney's "Robin Hood", aside from the "Whistle Stop" song in the opening credits, everything got translated and lip-synced by a French guy nobody knew nor remembered, such a waste. My eldest brother, a computer science pro, discovered Roger Miller on YouTube in the 90s and bought a CD he made us listen to. My curiosity eventually went farther than his, not very long ago though. I chanced on a recent complete performance (in Asia, I think) of "Big River", the score impressed me ("River in the Rain" is wonderful). Then I explored Roger Miller's discog on Spotify, you really find gems in there. But I'm afraid France isn't much into country music (except for individuals like my eldest brother and me). Last time I went to a local music store and looked for the country music section, all they knew was Johnny Cash, no older and no younger stars.

Fascinating .. I have become captivated by Symphonic/Progressive female-fronted metal (Epica, Nightwish etc.), primarily a product of Northern Europe among many other areas, which is mostly ignored here in the U.S.

It's something which I read started in the 50s, anyway kids nowadays don't listen to what their parents (or grandparents) liked but to what their peers like. My parents told me what their parents liked and what they liked, my brothers listened to the music of their generation, I listened to that. But people from different social classes or origins tend to listen to different things. I took more interest in what my children, nieces and nephews liked than they wondered about what I liked, so they and I have different musical cultures as well as different movie cultures. Basically, we have common tastes because I bother and make room for what I like in what they like, and they don't bother at all. It's all about their friends' tastes mattering more than their parents'. So when I hear them hum something that radios and tv shows aired when I was a kid and I start singing along, they're surprised. Their sense of chronology is a bit confused When they sing with enthusiasm songs that I already found lame when they were released, I remember that they think my tastes are crap and ask them if they're sure that theirs are any better Is living in the now about making no room for memory of the past and of ancestors? It feels so strange. Makes you wonder if you and your kids will ever get to know each other. Too many new songs, too quickly forgotten, unsufficiently memorized and sung along in families while everybody loves karaoke in clubs. Odd times.

Merry Christmas, David

wonderful!!!! perfect the pose (not easy to do...)! very good Vanessa

Thank you very much, dear friend. Not easy and even a bit scary, I watched colour videos and checked some details to get the colours about right but I started from this photo (I'm afraid the link must be copy-pasted to work) https://www.sunrecords.com/artists/roger-miller

perfect likeness, Vanessa!!!! and I like the way you gived colours!

Thanks again!

Merry Christmas, dear Raffaella

in delay for Christmas, I wish you a very Happy New Year Vanessa, for your family too

I hope you and your family had a great Christmas, and wish you all a very happy year 2022 (I'm starting to write it to get used to it before it starts )!

Don't you just hate it when the smileys don't work ?

I certainly would if it happened!

To explain ...... when I wrote that message and clicked "submit" it appeared as ..."magic.magc.magic.magic "etc., etc.,etc. But when it arrived with you , it was as it should be.

Sometimes things with these smileys are as they should be, sometimes they're not and when communication technology works fine, why it does is a total mystery to me

Bon anniversaire

Merci beaucoup Claire, et c'est avec joie que je partagerai ce savoureux gâteau

avec plaisir

A Happy New Year to you ...AND... A Happy New Birthday too

I am now a Vintage Classic like all 50+ people, and I'm very glad of it. Thank you very much, Tom - and thanks for the cake, please have some

Well Vanessa, if you are Vintage, I must be close to Antique Thanks for the slice of cake

If you're close to Antique I must be Mediaeval (well, I'm middle-aged), and both adjectives refer to very interesting times in History. You're welcome

Heureux Anniversaire chère Vanessa Et excellent réveillon

Merci beaucoup chère Mellody, heureuse fin d'année à toi aussi - aller, partage de gâteau pour accompagner les bons voeux...

Avec grand plaisir chère Vanessa Mille mercis à nouveau

Hi Vanessa, I finally found your email message. Thank you for checking in. Love this portrait of Roger. You captured his wry humor nicely. Great source of inspiration! I have several of his songs in my scratchy 45 collection!

Hey Mike, welcome back! Cool that you're still around. Thank you very much!

Félicitations Vanessa pour ton joli portrait du jour

Un "joli Roger Miller", ça fait un peu pirate, non, je crois que le pavillon noir des boucaniers s'appelait le "Jolly Roger"... Merci beaucoup

Félicitations au portrait du jour

Merci beaucoup, Claire

avec plaisir

Congratulations dear Vanessa for The PoD! I love your drawing style

Thank you for your tremendous compliment dear friend, I love your drawing style very much and I'm so glad that you love mine!

Good to see your Roger promotted to P.O.T.D. so soon !!Congratulations

What were the odds that a lone portrait (...so far...) in such a recent new gallery would get its chance to shine so soon? It's both incredible and fantastic. Thank you very much, Tom!

Just meant to be

Yep. Now and then a lucky shooting star makes a hit.

Félicitations chère Vanessa pour ce Splendide Portrait du Jour si mérité

Merci beaucoup, chère Mellody !

Avec grand plaisir chère Vanessa

Congratulations, Vanessa. Great Portrait of the Day. Brings back memories!

I'm glad it does. Thank you very much, Mike!

Chug-a-Lug is another good one. Thank you for the follow!

(Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop...) Your memory suddenly makes me want to holler hi-de-ho! Well your gallery is taking a beautiful start, it's a pleasure to follow

bravo pour ce portait du jour

Merci beaucoup !

Très élégant et charmant !! Toutes mes félicitations pour ce portrait du jour;; GRand Bravo Vanessa!!

Un immense merci, chère Anita !

Mais de rien Vanessa ! C'est mérité.

Magnifique portrait du jour chère Vanessa, une distinction très méritée, un grand bravo et toutes mes félicitations !!!

Un grand merci, cher Javier!

Congratulations Vanessa, much deserved PotD!

Thank you very much, dear Stephen!

Congratulation to this beautiful Portrait of the Day!

Thank you very much, dear friend!

Avec quelques jours de retard toutes mes félicitations à l'artiste Vanessa il n'a pas trainé longtemps...

C'est juste, j'en ai été agréablement surprise moi-même. Merci beaucoup, Jacques

Appropriately chosen to make it two-for-two! - I am rooting for, and axiously await the hat-trick!