“Gary Thomas KYPA. Photographer to the Stars“
Tony Cochrane (Represents and publishes The Grammy Awards booklet)
Teaching:
Celebrating 50 years of the disco iconic group Boney M and the release of their first disco album `Take The Heat Off Me` 1976. With hit after hit throughout the 70s disco era and 80s: Daddy Cool, Rivers of Babylon, Rasputin, Sunny, Mary`s Boy Child, Ma Baker - musical genres: Reggae, Pop, Disco, R&B, Funk, Boney M became a worldwide phenomenon selling over 100 million records. Pictured here is Ms Maizie Williams one of the original members of the group. We first met back in January 2015 at The Punch Bowl in Mayfair. Original photo ©️ Gary Thomas KYPA 2015. Special thanks to: God. Maizie Williams. #music #musiceducation #model #dancer #singer #artist #songwriter #singersongwriter #producer #70s #80s #group #disco #reggae #pop #dance #electronic #funk #icon #legend #student #students #musicindustry #update
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Photography:
On stage at the iconic Electric Ballroom with engineer and backstage. Photo ©️ Gary Thomas KYPA 2026. Special thanks to: God. Electric Ballroom. Mark Pearson & Tony (Electric Ballroom). Gavin Barnard. JSM Music Management. #music #musicindustry #engineer #soundengineer #production #artist #musiceducation #student #students #photo #update
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Photography:
Teamwork and creative project management behind the scenes!!! My fifty-seventh publication is 43 editions of Music Week featured in today`s issue under HOTSHOTS. I am very humbled by this experience. Special thanks to: God. John Saunderson. JSM Music Management. Notting Hill Music. Tony & Mark Pearson (Electric Ballroom). Music Week. #electricballroom #music #networking #musicindustry #update
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Teamwork!!! My fifty-seventh publication is 43 editions of Music Week and this is the 30th time John Saunderson’s event has been published.. I am very humbled by this experience. Special thanks to: God. John Saunderson. JSM Music Management. Notting Hill Music. Gavin Barnard. Tony & Mark Pearson (Electric Ballroom). Music Week. #musicindustry #update ...
Teaching:
The use of and understanding FORESHORTENING and PERSPECTIVE in drawing takes a lot of practice. Mastering the technique of eye and hand coordination in my opinion can be very challenging and tricky all at the same time; Nevertheless still fun and enjoyable. Here are some examples along with a simple methodology from my sketchbooks. Try closing one eye and bring one hand close to your eye and place your other hand at arms length away and what do you see??? The distance between boths hands makes one hand look bigger than the other - then swap the process around. All artwork ©️ Gary Thomas KYPA 2025/2026. Special thanks to: God. #Drawing #perspective #foreshortening #Draw #pen #pencil #pencildrawing #art #artist #artwork #face #faces #space #sketch #sketches #light #dark #ƒigurative #faces #shadows #sketching #shapes #figurativeart #artstudent #students #sketchbook #arteducation #update
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Teaching:
I am fascinated with faces, characters, people and their nuances. However, this lesson is about playing with composition and space and having fun with my sketchbook. Does one have to draw everything??? What happens when the space and angles are left to the viewers imagination??? The music that helped inspired my artwork: George Duke. George Benson. Isaac Hayes. All artwork (pen & pencil) ©️ Gary Thomas KYPA 2015. 2025. 2026. Special thanks to: God. #Drawing #Draw #pen #pencil #pencildrawing #art #artist #artwork #face #faces #space #sketch #sketches #light #dark #ƒigurative #faces #shadows #shapes #figurativeart #student #students #sketchbook #arteducation #update
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Creative Project Management:
Towards the last two weeks of 2025, I began creating and exploring ways I could use my fine art drawing practise and merge it with the concept around a comic book. What I discovered during the process of each piece of artwork enabled my thinking to break the rules about page layout, columns and order. Out of 25 pages, I have submitted an idea for a comic book and the theme focuses on `Dreams & Nightmares`. Unfortunately I cannot share my final piece online at this point until it has been published. So for now this piece is a preliminary stage and developmental stage and for what is to come later this year which looks nothing like this... btw, I have added another image to this page. Can you guess where??? All will be revealed in due course. Artwork ©️ Gary Thomas KYPA 2026. Special thanks to: God. Michael Eve (ink artist & comic artist for Marvel Transformers) for all the inspirational one-to-one phone conversations. #comics #comicbook #draw #drawing #drawings #sketches #sketch #inkdrawing #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #students #artstudents #arteducation #pen #penart #art #artist #artwork #update
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Creative Project Management:
https://www.musicweek.com/publishing/read/notting-hill-music-signs-rising-drum-bass-artist-sota-to-global-publishing-deal/094024
Congratulations to Drum and Bass artist Tom SOTA who has been making waves since 2019 as he signs a global publishing deal with Notting Hill Music. In 2023 SOTA was awarded Best Newcomer at the Drum & Bass Arena Awards and declared a future star by BBC RADIO 1. SOTA has performed at major festivals such as Glastonbury and Reading and continues to grow an international fanbase. Photo ©️ Gary Thomas KYPA 2026. Special thanks to: God. John Saunderson. Notting Hill Music. Tom SOTA. Jamie Osman (Real Life Management). Music Week. My fifty-sixth publication in 42 editions of Music Week. #drumming #drummer# #drums #rock #rockmusic #drumnbass #electronic #dance #electronicdance #musicindustry #music #artist #musiceducation #student #students #producer #musicproducer #update
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“Gary Thomas KYPA. Photographer to the Stars“
Tony Cochrane (Represents and publishes The Grammy Awards booklet)