BRUCE DOCKER PAINTINGS: BEATUP SENTRA

Saturday, March 3, 2012

BEATUP SENTRA

POTENTIAL

This is a painting I did for a Canadian book of short stories.
I've only done a few commission jobs before and I must say
this went very easy. I read the story the painting goes with
and then offered them 3 different drawings to choose from.
They picked 1, I painted it and it was OK-ed the first time.
Sweet!

Acrylic on Wood Panel - 5" x 7" - ©Bruce Docker, 2012
Contemporary American Art

1 comment:

Sheila Vaughan said...: Congrats Bruce, when a commission goes easy like that it's sweet! Like beat up cars anyway.; May 2, 2012 at 9:06 AM

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How I am, the way I am.

I come from a long line of artists. My father drew the original series of cigarette smoking woodpeckers used in all traditional tattoo shops today. My maternal grandmother was a professional artist who could paint the highlights of a vase with the devastation of a paper cut to the eye. And of course my grandfather was the infamous paint-by-numbers artist and rum runner of Kansas City in the 1940’s. I have tried to combine all I learned from them into a cohesively rambling style.

My formal training includes years of study with the Canadian art God, John Nagy, developer of the audacious Learn to Draw Kit. We met every Tuesday afternoon at 3:30.

Believing in total respect for my materials I once used an entire box of Crayola 64’s without breaking a single crayon, I covered my driveway in Scotch tape to protect my sidewalk chalk drawings from the rain, and the cloth of my canvas is made only from the wool of free range sheep.