Every artist made a sale and connections with the public I was told. The painting you see above is one of ‘mine’ and it sold as well! There’s a small story to that. It was displayed on my table which was being manned or rather, womanned by my wife and daughter. here’s a view:
Where was I? I was just off to the right drawing caricatures , or cartoonitures, as I call them. More on them here from that day. Here’s one pic of me drawing:
Alrighty then,…back to the sale story. Brief …I promise.
I was kind of late signing up for the event and decided to do a series of paintings that were sort of mid-century modern..y’know those stylized, cartoon-ish paintings you see in the old late fifties and early 60’s movies. I think the style was partly due to the popularizing of acrylic by that time (and pop art in general).
Beth and I strolled the town a week or so earlier, camera in hand and took some angles and shots of popular buildings (Kentville,NS). I was able to get 3 paintings finished and the sands in the top of the hour glass were losing to the ones in the bottom. About 2 days before I decided to skip a street and do King’s Arms Pub. It was a good call.
Friends of the owner flew like birds on the wind and made him aware of the painting. He soon showed up with cash in hand that exchanged in to mine in a manner of speaking. Although I was drawing at the time I managed to turret my head in his direction and shout a “Thank You sir!”
He aims to hang it in the Pub.
Photo from Henny Penny’s facebook page
Here’s the other paintings:
Several of my other stuff was sold as well that day. Great to get out. Great to help support diversity!
Thanks for visiting! More on the toons in the next post!
A Brush with Life! 