OZ NEVER HAD NOTHIN' ON THE TIN MAN

My first relocation of "The Wizard of Oz" was a scene done from a local stage production on then our local CBS channel. I'm not ... sure ... I might have been 3. Presented far past my bedtime, it was not long before it was the land of Oz but Nod that I was in. Still I spent the night dreaming of cowardly lions, scarecrows, and of course tin men.  Somewhere down the line the technicolor Oz came like clockwork, came yearly to Kansas. Then the Wizard of Turner appeared on the scene. I have to wonder if this film wasn't the reason he bought the MGM library. The VHS tape started the digital revolution with all the weapons of mass distractions, that we all ... enjoy ... now. Sad to say ... it was past 30 before I borrowed Karl Hertel's book. But hey ... it was the annotated copy. 

If I visit occasionally Oz, my friend Walt lives there. I wish he would feel compelled to go back to his works of Ozzian landscapes. When I needed an avatar for the community pages of the dulcimer site it was under the moniker, Tin Ear with a tin man with a dulcimer. 

Below is a study from my sketch book.