Wonder

Now this is a wacky painting as seen to your left, I call it "Peaceful Assembly"...

It's a crowd scene, you probably could guess that.

I had this big canvas that I got from jamey down the hall when he quit art which I wrote about a coupler months ago.

First I painted this big painting called "Big Man Dancing" which had this guy on it dancing to some music. I liked it but it was really really difficult to paint for some reason, I think because I was painting over something that Jamey had on the canvas that somehow did not facilitate the fluidity of my paint.

I should mention that this canvas is LARGE! It's five feet wide by six feet tall.

At some point whilst painting Big Man Dancing, I got fed up with the paint facilitation, as I mentioned, and took out some acrylic paint and boldly painted over the oil paint.

I'll get some paint facilitation I thought to myself.

And I did. That acrylic paint went on slicker than a cat's whiskers and I had myself a brave new painting.

Butt (and it's a big BUTT) back in the recesses of my sorry synapsed brain, I remembered something about not mixing acrylic and oil, but I'm thinking to myself, what? it will only last 100 years instead of 500? What do I care about that?

I did broach the subject carefully though with a few people and from what they said (Reilly Jensen) I was a little more worried. So finally, I just took off that old canvas, restretched on a new one, put a little gesso on it and started over.

And as I took the old canvas off the frame, the acrylic paint flaked off, so I don't think this thang was going to even last 1 year. Bunk!

Anyhoo, I started painting this big old painting with all the faces and things and it got to be kind of an obsession with me, I just worked and worked and worked on it until it was done. I've never really worked like that on a painting before.

And I got it done and this is what I've got. Fifty faces, all of them made up completely. I think what's weird about it is, they are all made up faces. I mean if you make up one or two faces people think it's kind of cute. But 50 faces?

I think they start to wonder about you.