“Susan”

© July, 1994 Brian Vigue

This was my last enamel painting for a while. The canvas is a T-shirt, by the way. (There's some history as to how that came about, involving model figures, Testor's paint, stains on my clothes that wouldn't wash out, and a short stint of painting custom apparel thereafter. Eventually those designs evolved into paintings like this.) Somehow I didn't position the canvas correctly for this piece. Therefore, the painting intrudes onto the seams of the sleeves, which turned out great after all because it adds a bit of novelty and really demonstrates this unusual pairing of medium and substrate.

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