Nice copy of Ham

[skiroomalum]

 

[d gray]

great inscription. and a face/self portrait painting.

 

[zobraks]

That's not a self-portrait - he'd never wear a bow tie!

 

[d gray]

i thought/think that's his mouth!

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I think I know a certain Kozak in the Kremlin who would trade this for a Super Bowl ring....

 

[skiroomalum]

My thought was it was Big Henry.....but I don't know that he put much forethought into his paintings. I vote for mouth. I also think, though it's maybe been said, that paintings weren't produced necessarily for specific books. I believe there was a big batch of "portraits" that Martin had that ended up in Ham to War All The Time to Hot Water....but that's just a guess. I wonder how much time he spent on each small painting. 10 minutes?

 

[mjp]

I know some of them look like they were made in 10 minutes, but I don't think most of them were done that quickly. He said (somewhere) that entire days were spent making paintings and complained that he couldn't get any writing done on those days.