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Ive been strongly influenced by the commercial art of the 50s and 60s. One of the traditions of that time was the Pin-up painting. They may have been the soft core of their time, but today the traditional pin-up looks wide-eyed and innocent. In fact, it appears to me that the pin-up girl was painted in with a sense of worship, like a goddess. To me this form seems ripe for innovation. I enjoy putting angels and prophets, and even Jehovah Himself in the same context as these women who bring back memories of the 50s. I often illustrate Biblical stories with these paintings. like Eve in the Garden (Trouble in Paradise, or Sussanah and the Elders. I am tipping my hat to the illustrators of the Fifties as well as the tradition of religious painting. |
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