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The Artists:

Richard Biffle: A prolific painter who has created prominent designs for the Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana, The Doobie Brothers, Black Crowes, Widespread Panic & many other bands on the sam Jam Band Scene.

Scramble Campbell: A live music painter who has created over 550 original paintings live during concerts at Red Rocks amphitheater. His live paintings and autograph collection includes BB King, Fats Domino, Widespread Panic and many more.

Ten years later, their pallets collide in 2003 at Bonnaroo. Both had graduated from the lot and now had a booth inside the artist village at the Festival. Scramble had a plan this time. He wanted to ask Richard to paint with him later that day. So, they did. Scramble brought a 4x4 ft canvas, his easel and all of the paint onto the middle of the field to set up the En Plein Air studio before The Dead got to the stage. Richard Biffle emerged, weaving in and out of tie dyes, paint brushes in hand, he somehow had found the paint station.

There was no real plan, they had no sketch, It was just a blank canvas in a sea of Dead Heads. That is, until the music started. The band started playing & the blank canvas came to life with the energy of the show. The live music experience was seeping into the painting. So was the grit and determination of these two artist to complete this mission. As it got dark, it seemed like there were twice as many people around as they went at that giant canvas.

They were like Art Gladiators with headlamps. What they painted that night was a unique portrayal of the LIVE concert event. Scramble painted the band as Biffle laid out the songs as they played.

See if you can identify any of them.---

They painted another piece on July 6 at Red Rocks for The Dead later that same year.

It would be several years before their brushes mingle again. It was 2017, both artist were living in Colorado now.

It was Jerry Garcias 75th Birthday Celebration when Bobby Weir was playing with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. They knew that this would be the first time Jerry Garcias guitars Wolf & Tiger were going to be played at the same time. This inspired a new style for them as they created another masterpiece to document this special occasion live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Over the years the two artist have painted together a handful of times. So far this year, the two have painted together four times. It began with Scramble inviting Richard to paint with him this year at Billy and the Kids. They had an idea that they sketched out, that later would turn out to be a new way for them to collaborate. Scramble invited Richard to paint live at Red Rocks. It was a cold windy night and the canvas was whipping back and forth from the sharp gust. We had the easel tied down and a spotter to hold the canvas so they could paint in the crazy conditions. Richard asked what we do when it gets to be so windy and Scramble said, we paint…. So, they did.

Having the idea sketched out before the show, was a new way of approaching the old style of painting together. They both knew what they were going to do on this canvas, so they got focused and the music flowed thru them onto the masterpiece. After the show, they both wanted to add a few different elements, so they tightened up the details in the studio.

Perseverance pays

Their next painting was sometime during August 1-9 for The Days Between.

They met in the studio this time for a different approach. Painting in a climate controlled environment and listening to the music as they painted They bounced ideas off of each other and communicated as they created this one. A different dynamic that painting live at Red Rocks or in the middle of Bonnaroo.

Fast forward to the next version of this collaboration. The series is once again evolving and it appears to be a new hybrid. A live painting, studio collaboration.