Salty Dog Close-ups
Here are four close-ups of my painting Salty Dog C 2009:
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Here's the lyrics posted on an metal sign and pole; also the salt shaker and dog
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Sittin' on the corner with the lowdon blues, great big hole in the bottom of my shoes. The guitar is an old Silvertone. The girl eating the hot dog on a stick was supposed to be a sand sculpture, I decided to fade her out a bit so not to distract from the main images in that area.
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The old maids are saying, "I wish we had a beach umbrella like the one in front of us." Miss California is the focal point of the painting. As usual my sense of humor tends to be ironic: God made woman, made her kinda funny..." I like the little girl lifting up the ocean to get her red ball. The wave she lifts up turns into a green field with a hog running across it.
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The close-up by itself could be an entire painting. I created my own meat grinder after looking at several on-line.