Uncle Harry 5' x 5', Photoshop on Giclee by my good friend Steve Majeski


This is a painting by a friend, Steve Majeski a master of the digital arts with any eye for the renaissance. The cool thing about this picture is I look like Uncle Harry only a generation younger. The other cool thing is that he was a painter years ago.

I wish I can tell you about his pool table... when I was 10 years old... My parents brought me to his home. He had just refinished the pool table. It was sweet. I like pool but at the age of 10 I had never touched a stick. Well, I stacked the balls and set the queue readied my stick and wham... made a nice big tear in the new felt!

Fast forward 35 years later. I make a painting of him and my aunt for a gift on his anniversary or birthday, 90 years old. I did not have much time and as you know oil paints dry slowly. So I placed the painting on a wall behind some flowers and it was safe. Not too much later however the photographer took a picture in front of my painting with 15 people. My uncle stepped just a little too close to the painting and it got on his suit! I was too embarrassed to tell him. Yet I could not stop laughing either. I imagined he would take his jacket off and hang it at home and it would get the rest of his clothing full of paint. My imagination ran wild. Later I got the courage and told him but not before I took a long walk or something.

I place this picture on my web site becuase honoring others both artists and subjects is just as important if not more important than sharing my work and words.

Tags: Welcome, Namaste, fine art, Uncle harry