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I used words from Billie Elish and Beatles' songs in my painting. |
I’m back! I’m back in Palm Beach at
Bricktop’s restaurant with another big bird painting. That’s what the employees call it, “Big Bird”, and presumably they’ll call my second painting: “Big Bird 2” because it is a painting of a big bird too.
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Near left my new painting and far right in the distance my first one. |
My first one was a popular hit and there was immediately talk of painting more but here we are, it’s taken four years to get an order for a second one. Like the first it is an homage to Audubon and his
“Birds of America”. The idea was to take a John James Audubon bird as subject matter but render it with a twist.
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I caught the last of this sort of scene when I visited S. Florida in the early 80s. |
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A surfer from 60s California but I needed him as compositional motif. |
With that assignment I immediately thought of the contemporary artist, Walton Ford, because he’s made a career of that sort of thing. Except I didn’t bother to reacquaint myself with Ford's paintings so my results are hardly anything like his and I’m glad of that. Both my paintings combine a sort of serious fauna study with some playful and absurd representations of life in South Florida.
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Shes seems like fun, so I couldn't resist. |
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It's always good to get another perspective on things. |
And by the way the second big bird isn’t even based on Audubon, rather an image I found in the
Biodiversity Library. Still it looks like an Audubon. Sounds like an Audubon? Let’s say is rhymes with Audubon.
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