Painting: Fit as a Violin No#1

When I started this series of musical instruments I wasn’t entirely sure where I was going to find my subjects. In a desperate plea, I propositioned my Facebook friends, “Does anyone have a stringed musical instrument that I could paint?” Eric Glad, a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time, was the first to reply. He has been a hoarding a treasure trove of instruments which have been tenderly used in his most recent musical collaboration, a band called Glaun. He was kind enough to take a break from his college finals and allow me to photograph his accordion and violin. While an accordion isn’t exactly a stringed instrument, it was slightly more attractive than Mike Silva’s penny whistle.  I promised to handle them while wearing a hermetically sealed plastic suit inside a sanitary hyperbolic chamber, with germ-killing UV light. If you knew Eric, you’d understand why he would insist on such a procedure. In exchange for making his musical instruments famous he gave me a copy of the Glaun Christmas album. It’s great, especially if you like emo rock with an accordion. I especially enjoyed the littered references to Popeye sung incoherently through each song.

"Fit as a Violin #1" - Acrylic on Canvas (18"w x 24"h) - $295