Hello ladies!
Since I was complaining about never having time in my last note, today I’m going to introduce you to D Westry from Georgia. Actually, first I wanted to write you about elephants that paint, but then I started reading up on it and it turns out that most of the time when someone has convinced an elephant to paint it is NOT a happy thing for the elephant, so I decided to stop thinking about that before I got too sad about it. Art should be joyous and done because it’s fun and wonderful, and I am wishing horrible things on the kind of people that would be mean to an elephant to get it to paint. I do not like that there are mean people in the world.
But, because I can’t fix the world right now, I moved on to D Westry, who I saw do his thing on TV once or twice and have always been incredibly impressed with. Some of his pieces are below, but I’m also attaching a link to a video clip, so you can see that this guy is FAST….and he also paints UPSIDEDOWN sometimes (like the one in this video), which is just ridiculous. Even if I don’t worry about being fast, I can barely paint a portrait that looks like the person it’s supposed to look like…this guy creates paintings that look like the people they’re supposed to be, in just a few minutes, and upsidedown! It’s a fascinating talent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8AkjWQ3P-M
D. Westry was one of the first people to get famous for this particular skill – he paints a lot of celebrity portraits, and almost always does it live in front of audiences (so that they can be impressed with his amazing speed) – lot of pressure in that, though – you can’t hide it if you mess up! His paintings are pretty big, too…although in this case, I think bigger makes it easier, because you can be a little bit off on something big and it’ll still be ok, whereas if he was painting tiny portraits he’d have to be very precise.
So that’s this weeks’ artist. I hope you’re having a wonderful day,
Know that I love you and think that you’re awesome.
Hugs and kisses,
Auntie Paula
Xoxoxoxo
Love people that do these paintings upside down and they look like 1 person or thing while they're doing it but then they turn it around and it's totally not what you expected. The Anderson Cooper one was cool. Shannon was going "huh? I'm not seeing it" and then he turned it over and we were all like "aaahhhhh!".
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the effort you put into this blog every week! Did you know Anderson Cooper (or Anderson Pooper as Shannon would say) is Gloria Vanderbilt's son?
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Patrick calls him Anderson Pooper, too! :) That makes me HAPPY!! I did not know he was Gloria's son!
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