Mark Watkin (see previous post) was talking to me about the recent traffic stopping concert in Bristol by ageing rocker and Ally Mcbeal supporting actor Jon Bon Jovi. Apparently it cost over £50! “…..and your class costs only £49 Will”. If you’re a big fan of what used to be called poodle rock I guess £50 is a snip, but then you wouldn’t get to see Jon Bon Jovi without his clothes on either. Anyway, I like the comparison, even if it is a little obscure
Next term will be starting again in September, whether you’re a Jon Bon Jovi fan or not so as always if you’d like to come along read the About page on this web site then email willstevens@lifedrawingclasses.co.uk. If you’re interested in doing some life drawing over the Summer months I will be running a slimmed down class on Thursdays from 7 until 9p.m. starting on the31st of July at St Gregory’s church in Monk’s Park . The cost will be £6 per session payable in advance for the sessions that you know in advance that you can do. So, for example, if you’d like to come but happen to be away for two of those weeks you just pay £24. Let me know if you happen to be interested. (It was pretty good last year)
Incidently, these drawings were contributed a while by artist and Jon Bon Jovi fan Jean Bunting who had a great time at the recent Ashton Court gig. I’ve had these for ages and only got around to doing something about it Jean. A thousand apologies.
Bon Jovi is a hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s. Over the past 25 years, Bon Jovi has sold over 120 million albums worldwide, [1] including 34 million in the United States alone. [2]
Bon Jovi formed in 1983 with lead singer Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John Such, and drummer Tico Torres. Other than the departure of Alec John Such in 1994 (which pared the lineup down to a quartet), the lineup has remained the same for the past 25 years. After two moderately successful albums in 1984 and 1985, the band scored big with Slippery When Wet (1986) and New Jersey (1988), which sold a combined 19 million copies in the U.S. alone, charted eight Top Ten hits (including four number one hits), and launched the band into global super stardom. After non-stop touring, the band went on hiatus after the New Jersey Tour in 1990, during which time Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora both released successful solo albums. In 1992, the band returned with the double platinum Keep the Faith and has since created a string of platinum albums throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
In 2006, the band won a Grammy for best Country Collaboration for “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” with Jennifer Nettles from Sugarland and also became the first rock band to reach #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart with the same song. The band has also received multiple Grammy nominations for music from the albums Crush, Bounce, and Lost Highway.
Throughout their career, the band has released ten studio albums, of which nine have gone platinum. In addition, the band has charted 19 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, four of which reached #1 (“You Give Love a Bad Name”, “Livin’ on a Prayer”, “Bad Medicine”, and “I’ll Be There for You”). The band also holds the record for the most weeks for a hard rock album at #1 on the Billboard 200 with Slippery When Wet, as well as the most Top 10 singles from a hard rock album, with New Jersey, which charted five such singles.
As someone who has long been an avid drawer (mainly portraits) I came accross this website whilst doing a Google Image search for the word Drawing. I was amused to find on the first page I looked at comments about my favourite singer Jon Bon Jovi.
Just wanted to say whilst I am sure the Bristol Life Drawing Class is well worth £47 my ticket to see Bon Jovi at Ashton Gate in June which by the way cost me over £90 as I was in the front row was also well worth every penny I paid for it.
I have done many portraits of Jon Bon Jovi, one funnily enough where he is almost naked. Unfortunately he didn’t come round and pose for me I had to take it from a photograph. If I knew how to post pictures on this website I would be happy to share some of my sketches with you. Maybe someone could tell me how ?