Oil on 6x6" panel.
One of the greatest clowns was Emmett Kelly. As a boy he grew up in the mid-west with a talent for drawing and an ambition to be an artist. He stared his clowning career around 1917 Kelly had a proper easel and used his drawing skills as part of his circus act. My kind of clown. I'll have to add this portrait to my artist homage series.
2 comments:
Hi Rachel,
The clown paintings are all wonderful and seem to be the perfect subject matter for your spectacularly expressive talents.
Sincerely,
Gary.
Hi Gary,
Thank you, I love circus imagery. My grandfather was a clown for many years with Hagenbecker-Wallace. Maybe it's in my blood? Yikes.
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