2000: Evil Philly
When revisiting the year 2000, I realized that of all these people I painted, there’s very few I still see. This year I hoped to have the paintings be of people who would likely attend the party. So, I decided to paint our friends Jeremy and Stacey. Plus they’re good sports. I wasn’t sure where in Philly (the theme was horror/spooky paintings with Philly landmarks) to put these two. I realized I hadn’t done the Clothespin sculpture or the Love Park sculpture, but then I remembered that I had slapped together the Art Museum painting back in 2000 and the point of this thing was to redo paintings I wished I had put more time into.
And so we find our zombies at the art museum. True, they crave tasty brains, but they have culture.
Thanks to Jeremy and Stacey for sending me a lot of photos that were perfect for the painting.
This next part is just a note for me. But I added yellow in there to make it disturbing. You can’t really tell it without seeing it up close. And unless you follow everything I do really, really closely you won’t know that I’ve used yellow about 6 times in the past 50 paintings. This is part of me growing as an artist this year.
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