page, carew, gump: minnesotan bunnies

This is a photo of a personalized bearded bunny drawing I created for my uncle Rick. It was his christmas present. Rick is a big fan of Minnesota Sports figures and these three are among his favorites. For those non-Minnesota or non-sports fans the three famous sports figures are:

Allen Page

Rod Carew

Gump Worsley

As an interesting addition to this post I met Allen Page. As a little kid, age 5 I think, I had entered a black history month drawing competition. I drew my favorite baseball player at the time: KIRBY PUCKETT. I won the contest for my age group and I got to meet and shake hands with Allen Page. They also awarded me this really neat plaque, with a photo of my and Allen Page and this neat commemorative button with the picture of Martin Luther King on it. I love, and still have this plaque. It was the first art contest I had won, and was something I was very proud of as a youngster.

On another note, I started a job at the local Staples yesterday. The store, and where I currently live, is in Portland, Maine. My first day on the job while training in as a cashier I talked to a guy wearing a Minnesota Wild hat. Turns out he was from Rochester, Minnesota where my grandma and grandpa live. Small world.

Tiger Woods finger painting

Here is a finger painting I did of the golfer Tiger Woods. I used acrylic paint, my finger and construction paper. This was a series of finger paintings done when I did not have any brushes and really wanted to paint.



If you are interested in owning this picture I am selling it on my Etsy Shop. It may be already sold by the time you look ,but I should have some other original works available for sale. This is the only work I have ever done of Tiger Woods to date, and only one of a handful of fingerpaintings I have done since I have been 6 years old.



I do plan on exploring fingerpainting again at some point, since I feel the freedom of not dealing with details makes for a much more expression and loose style of art. It also helps you eye define shapes and colors, in order to contruct the form properly. I am not expert on fingerpainting, but can understand how the act of doing it helps my other work in both painting, drawing and airbrushing.