Exercising His Authority
Exercising His Authority
30 x 40
2004 / #9
My first official âguyâ painting, this piece was done for therapeutic reasons. I needed to vent my frustrations over a situation and this was the best way to do it. The character is my ex-scoutmaster. Donât know how right it is to fire volunteers from a volunteer service organization, but that is what happened to my family and myself. Seeing that I was the target of his displeasure, I decided to go quietly, but wield the mighty brush. All those who know this man, know I have captured his essence perfectly as well as the absurdity of the situation itself that precipitated the need for this piece.
The female character is looking rather smug while enjoying her cupcake and watching the attempt of the male to be impressive. However, he is holding a bag of doggie droppings having just passed a trash can (oblivious to the obvious as usual), and a shovel. The sand shovel appears in my work on occasion and is my personal symbol for people who tend to âshovel a lot of BSâ hence his proud strut. The leash, or in this case, an extraordinarily large and unnecessary rope, is twisted around the legs since he is going to get tripped up eventually if he continues on the current path. A piece of gum under the shoe (which I put in paintings just to see if anyone notices sometimes) references the fact that he steps into things unknowingly many times. The neckerchief is there because I once called it a scarf and got a reprimand that only women wear scarves and men wear neckerchiefs. The little toilet paper covering a razor cut represents his yearly shaving of all body hair for ceremonial reasons in order to attend summer camp.
The dog is named Authority, which most people donât figure out, but I made it a little wiener type dog just because I could. Art therapy is a wonderful thing! This has been a popular print among my friends who now know it is not a good thing to irritate me.
30 x 40
2004 / #9
My first official âguyâ painting, this piece was done for therapeutic reasons. I needed to vent my frustrations over a situation and this was the best way to do it. The character is my ex-scoutmaster. Donât know how right it is to fire volunteers from a volunteer service organization, but that is what happened to my family and myself. Seeing that I was the target of his displeasure, I decided to go quietly, but wield the mighty brush. All those who know this man, know I have captured his essence perfectly as well as the absurdity of the situation itself that precipitated the need for this piece.
The female character is looking rather smug while enjoying her cupcake and watching the attempt of the male to be impressive. However, he is holding a bag of doggie droppings having just passed a trash can (oblivious to the obvious as usual), and a shovel. The sand shovel appears in my work on occasion and is my personal symbol for people who tend to âshovel a lot of BSâ hence his proud strut. The leash, or in this case, an extraordinarily large and unnecessary rope, is twisted around the legs since he is going to get tripped up eventually if he continues on the current path. A piece of gum under the shoe (which I put in paintings just to see if anyone notices sometimes) references the fact that he steps into things unknowingly many times. The neckerchief is there because I once called it a scarf and got a reprimand that only women wear scarves and men wear neckerchiefs. The little toilet paper covering a razor cut represents his yearly shaving of all body hair for ceremonial reasons in order to attend summer camp.
The dog is named Authority, which most people donât figure out, but I made it a little wiener type dog just because I could. Art therapy is a wonderful thing! This has been a popular print among my friends who now know it is not a good thing to irritate me.