Gramophone - Digital Print

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. What a way to honor her life!