Thursday 3 June 2010

Les

Les




I have told you often about the Inns I hang paintings in. Les was the first person to allow me to do this not long after I had started painting seriously. He gave me space to hang a few. This was a tremendous gesture on his behalf and I will be always grateful to him. It was with some fear that I started hanging. Was I good enough? It was with some joy that they did began to sell.

One of the things I did fairly early on was a portrait of him. We hung it on his day off. I will leave you to imagine the comments that were made. Enough to say we all had a great laugh and he took it in the way it was meant.

He had a jigsaw made and a mug with it on it which he sent to his granddaughter so he must not have thought it was too bad.

I gave it to him and I to this day do not know what he did with it. Why did I use it here today. Well my other blog is about a man with a smile and I always see les as a man with a great big smile and real witty sense of humour.

So one of my very early attempts at a portrait in pastel.



This blog is linked to my other. The Man With the Smile

4 comments:

  1. Nice Portrait-Painting! Even D.Hockney would like probably...

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  2. You've captured the twinkle in his eye.... he looks like a very nice guy.

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  3. You paint some awful handsome guys, Ralph. Les has gorgeous eyes and I can almost imagine the reality of him from your painting. That is so cool!!

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  4. wonderful portrait. You are brave to do them..I have not tried portraits..although I have gotten fairly good likenesses of my Dad and Mom in some paintings with other things. I laughed about Les making a jigsaw and mug from this painting..very cool!

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