Friday, July 10, 2015

At Last!

At last! Back from California, where, if you think it's hot here, it was 107 degrees in the East Bay Area!

Finally got around to the minutiae of all the patches... Actually, while photographing for this post, the painting took a tumble and broke a reinforcement strut on the canvas stretcher, along with a very minor scrape in the stripes of the background flag... Art is fragile!

Harkens back to a painting I was doing for a cowboy when I was a 19-year-old student that fell victim to a very large speaker attached to a wall. Apparently, loud music can cause speakers to come lose from their moorings, and well, suffice to say, my cowboy friend really didn't believe my story of the 10-inch rip right through the center of the half-finished canvas!

So here's the final, awaiting curing for varnish. If you know this guy (Papa Bear?), give him a holler for me. I can imagine somehow raising a few bucks for veterans with a cameo appearance of him and his best friend! I'd even spring for a giclée reproduction as model compensation!

UPDATE: I found Papa Bear! Jack B. had friends in the Tampa Bay area that knew him from church.









1 comment:

  1. Greetings! You refer to a cowboy in this post, and I think I may be the daughter of the man you mention. I am very interested to commission a portrait of him to reflect this period of his life. Are you interested/ available? Will be really nice if indeed it was my father you painted those years ago. Please contact me jessicamhancock@live.com

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