Above is a picture of a painting of a statue I did as a teenager (on card, not canvas). No disrespect to the famous one by Bartholdi, but I call it the “Statu(t)e of Liber Tea”. I didn’t get the proportions right at all but it is one of the pieces of artwork that I did in my teens (at about the age of 16 if I remember correctly) that I wasn’t so upset with the inadequacy of, in the manner of the character from the “Fast Show”, that I instantly got out the black paint and turned it into a Kazimir Malevich-style work. I haven’t painted for years. I can’t wait to crack out the pigmentalisms again.
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