Thursday, June 25, 2015

History of T-Bone in Paint

I come from a large family and we are closeknit. My 4 siblings and I live within a 15-20 mile radius so we've shared multiple experiences and attended numerous family gatherings. This has allowed for me to watch my 6 nephews and 1 niece grow from birth to present. I have taken the opportunity to paint them over the years and recently finished a graduation portrait of my nephew Tanner Jack.

As I was posting it in my Art Newsletter this month I realized I have probably painted Tanner more often than any other thus far. I thought it would be fun to see the metamorphasis of not only Tanner, but my painting style as well. As I was putting this together I found how awful some of my early photo quality was and there is also no photo record of a large painting I did of him when he was around 6 years old. I will have to rectify that!

So here it is... a history of T-Bone in paint! (My nickname for him)


T-Bone is the tow headed boy on the right with the red shovel.
My youngest nephew, Grayson is wearing a red sweatshirt on the left.

T-Bone playing on the beach of Whidbey Island

In this group painting that was done of all 6 grandsons as a gift
 to my Mother and Father, T-Bone is the boy on the lower right corner.  
The oldest boy is now 31 and the youngest 16.

 T-Bone with his older brother Cameron with their dog Sparky back in 2004.



 T-Bone as one of my "Victims" in my FACE Project in 2012
in which he was named "The Insolent Tuber"
(see more about this on my website by clicking here)


Graduation portrait of T-Bone titled:
Tanner Jack: An Unfinished Man