Longtime Dylan fan Lou Yanez is an artist/entrepreneur born in Queens, NY. After retiring from a career in the Navy he had a lot of time to pursue other interests. One of those interests has been the guitar, not in the typical manner but as an artist who paints guitars. That is, he paints rock stars and whatever else interests him, on the guitars themselves.
Yanez took up doing custom painted guitars in 2004. In 2008, when he was asked to paint a few guitars for a PBS fundraiser, he suggested doing the vintage Milton Glaser portrait of Bob Dylan that accompanied Dylan's Greatest Hits album. The artist proceeded to contact Glaser for permission to reproduce his image and you can see here what a stellar result came of it.
In addition to painting guitar-sized guitars, Yanez makes miniature guitars which he sells here on Etsy.
Here are some other examples of his workmanship, each evoking memories for me and probably for you.
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| Bob's friend George. |
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| Disraeli Gears. Original art by Martin Sharp. |
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| This one, too... Great album & great album cover concept. |
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| While this event was happening, Bob was packing for the Isle of Wight. |
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| And here we are, ending where we began. |
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Related Link: The Guitar Art of Lou Yanez
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