Tiffany’s Art & Life Blog
. intersection of my art & life .
Tiffany’s Art & Life Blog
. intersection of my art & life .
The BIG Sized thing Im Painting this week!
Well this week I will be painting not only on some of my portrait commissions, but I will also be working on the painting process for the project Hats off to Mr. Lincoln Bicentennial 2009. Which is a fundraising project in conjunction with the local Rotary clubs of Springfield to help various projects designed to improve literacy for children. Each hat has been purchased by individual or business sponsors. During the public viewing period, the hats will spend most of the time at the various sites identified in the Hats Off to Mr. Lincoln maps, but may occasionally be moved to other public events during the spring and summer. At the end of the summer, hats that haven’t been purchased by the sponsor will be auctioned off at a special event. The Hat’s are enormous fiberglass sculptures of Abe Lincoln’s trademark black hat. Except that these hats arrive to the artist completely white, awaiting the artists designs. And when I say they are big, I mean so large most artists can’t fit them through their studio doors. So some are forced to paint in their garage! Which is not the ideal location. So good thing it is spring and warm weather has hit. Just the general height and depth of these hats will make the painting process one that requires some sore muscles and awkward positioning to reach the spots necessary. The hat will look great once completed. It’s just getting it done in the midst of my other portrait commissions is going to require some unusual time adjustments. Im guessing I will be meeting the sun rise in the garage. LOL
The hats will be displayed throughout Springfield Illinois through 2009. The small hats will be placed in store front and other business windows. And the very large versions of the Abe hat will be displayed throughout Springfield at various Lincoln landmarks. The artists chosen to paint the hats will be rendering their own designs, based around a concept of Lincoln and ideas related to Lincoln. So every hat will be quite different. The project is actually similar to that of the Chicago Cows on Parade held several years ago. ( see pics below).
Here's the "Shopping Cow" outside
Marshall Field's in Chicago.
So if you want to watch the progression of the Abe Hat Im painting, you will have to keep following my blog, (the intersection of my art & life). My design is done, and it is now time to start painting. :) A thought behind my hat’s concept, The Future Unfolding Before Us, Past Meeting Present. and Paving a Path through History. Wish me luck on this enormous fiberglass monster of a hat!
http://www.galesburg.com/archive/x180638902/Artists-create-Abe-hats-to-decorate-Springfield
One of the other artist ( not me) painting her hat design on the huge hats.
(photo SJR)
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Tiffany ;)
Monday, May 4, 2009