PERFORMING ILLUSTRATOR OF OPERA, BROADWAY MUSICALS, SACRED and CLASSICAL MUSIC JACK D. PATTON, M.A. TAUGHT ART AT TAYLOR UNIVERSITY - A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE AT UPLAND, INDIANA, MANY YEARS. HE ALSO TAUGHT AT THE DELAND MUSEUM OF ART, COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN BRADENTON, SARASOTA, FT. LAUDERDALE, DAYTONA BEACH. HE HAS LECTURED AND PERFORMED AS A CHALK ARTIST AND PUPPETEER IN MICHIGAN, CANADA, OHIO, INDIANA, KENTUCKY AND FLORIDA. HE STUDIED AT THE COLUMBUS, OHIO SCHOOL OF ART. HIS GRADUATE WORK WAS DONE AT BALL STATE UNIVERSITY IN MUNCIE, INDIANA. HE NOW RESIDES IN WINTER PARK, FLORIDA.

Being a lover of both music and art, he decided to combine the two as a performing artist, illustrating grand opera scenes, Broadway musicals scenes, religious / Biblical truth / scenes, and classical symphonic compositions. As far as is known, no other artist illustrates music before audiences on a specially designed nine foot tall easel with overhead lighting. Taped music is played while illustrating with lecturer's chalks. Composers represented in his illustrations: BACH, BIZET, HUMPERDINCK, JEROME KERN, MUSSORGSKY, WAGNER, MASSANET, RICHARD RODGERS, SIGMUND ROMBERG, PUCCINI, VERDI, DEBUSSEY, GROFE, R.STRAUSS, MENDELSSOHN, HANDEL, ELMER BERNSTEIN, etc.

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chalk illustration with music from the films-Ben Hur, Greatest Story Ever Told, the Bible, Ten Commandments.

Chalk illustration from Verdi's opera NABUCCO (Nebuchadrezzar)

In this scene the Israelites are in captivity in Babylon and long for their homeland singing "Va Pensiero." The piclture is drawn on a large easel with overhead lighting and musical background from the Verdi music...nice for churches, retirement homes, art groups, etc.

PHONE: 407 - 673 - 9208 or artideas@webtv.net Contact him for further information

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