Skate 716
This painting has an interesting story. I do not remember how the painting was started, or what I had originally painted on this canvas. However, at one point I had painted a portrait of a Canadian missionary whom i had met in Guadalajara. I was never happy with this portrait and i tried several methods to fix it. One method was to paint red curtains at her sides. That did not work. So i painted a large version of an image that I had drawn of Al Green (seen on the left of the canvas). It was an improvement, but still not satisfied, so i stored it for later revision. When Adam Klekowski asked me to donate paintings for a benefit show, i decided to completely re-paint this canvas with something from my past, but I could not allow myself to paint over Al Green! This skateboarder image was painted exclusively for the aforementioned benefit auction (Ignite) to raise funds for the African Bible College.