
"Bad Hair Day", 11x14, oil on canvas-SALE! -$79 plus $8 shipping and handling
I painted this tree around this time last year when the beautiful yellow tabebuia tree was blooming in my neighborhood. Since then, the poor thing was struck by lightning and is no longer there. I certainly hope that I didn't jinx the tree with this painting! Anyhow, in memory of a truly lovely tree that I had hoped to paint in all it's glory the day that I set out to do so, I am reposting this, and offering the painting for sale for only $79. Last summer, the painting was juried into Art Center Sarasota's wild exhibit,
"Masquerade, Mystery and Mischief", and it has lots of thick vibrant impasto throughout. Please use the PayPal button below to purchase. Here's last spring's post re-posted for my reader's amusement:
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. We all have days like this.
Here's the story behind the painting, in case you're interested.
We have these gorgeous trees here in Southwest Florida called Tree of Gold. Well, I'm sure that's not their real name, but that's what people call them. They only bloom for about a week and then they're done until the following year. Truth is, they aren't very pretty without their big gold blossoms. Well anyway, I went and set up my paints in front of one of these trees not far from my home. It was hot and humid, so I set up on the sidewalk of a county street so the red ants wouldn't chew on me as they would if I painted in the grass. It was also very windy. My easel blew over twice, but no problem. I kept going. A kid on a skate board came whizzing by and almost knocked me over. Then a woman on a bike came by and chided me for blocking the sidewalk because "golf carts need to go through here". "There is abundant grass on either side of the sidewalk in which the golf carts can pass beside me, and in fact one has already done so", I explained to the woman. "You just
shouldn't be here!" she screamed at me.
Well, so much for my "Tree of gold" Within seconds it became "Bad Hair Day", as I took my palette knife and just took out all my anger on the poor canvas. It's full of thick, expensive, wasted paint, by the way. Just click on the painting and you'll see how much paint I wasted on this sucker!
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