Teach Them Young

Teach Them Young (acrylic on canvas, 24"x30")

This painting depicts an older man playing a guitar in front of a child holding a cellphone. The inspiration for this painting is a photo taken of me and the nephew of my fiancee. He was very intently looking at me, while I was playing the guitar. The child was so focused on my guitar playing that he was not paying attention to the phone game that he was playing. This inspired me with the idea of teaching children music, art, (and etc.) while they are young. Initially, I painted this to be a "realistic" type of painting. However, I did not like how it appeared, so I changed the style of this painting. I changed the skin color and added a weird non-sense background, lighting, and splatters. It looks very chaotic and dirty. I decided not to include this one in the exhibit.