Gramophone - Original Oil Painting

I scored this gorgeous and fully functional wind-up gramophone from my friend and bandmate, Neil “King Cornelius” Batterson. I was drawn to its combination of beauty and newtonian physics given its prevalence of use during the late 1800s-1920s. When I was painting some other works for Cazador del Oso storyboard, I found this gorgeous crushed red-velvet to fabric at a second hand store down the street and brought it into the studio to create a backdrop that invokes a whimsical closing-of thick red theater curtains in an imaginary live-theater production “Intermission”. Once I brought the velvet into the studio and explored the draping contours, and the lighting, I couldn’t resist attempting a live still-life oil painting. 

What makes it even more unique and special to me is, I was using my late Grammy’s Sears-brand oil paints from the 1960s that ended up in my keep. -among all the oils I used in the creation of these images, her Sears brand oil paints were undoubtedly the highest quality,  and remained perfectly usable.

Buy this piece of the Cazador del Oso story, crafted to exist alongside the music and film.