Fats
This was an exercise in creative disobedience. I was 19 years old and in my first college painting class. The assignment was abstract expressionism with generous applications of paint. I did not have much money at the time and I knew very well that paint is expensive, so I threw some spray paint in the background (cause I used to have tons of spray paint). Then I thinned down the oil paint as much as I possibly could (making a little paint go a long way). This canvas is about four feet tall, and it really grabs your attention when you walk into the room. People often mistake the subject of this painting for Dizzy Gillespie or some other famous jazz trumpet player, but it is Sidney Bechet, virtuoso of the soprano saxophone.