I ♥ Kevin Cook!
It all started with this bag and the man who made it possible, Jim Radosta. Jim and Kevin (aka Poison Waters) were having lunch a few months ago, and, upon seeing the bag, Kevin decided right then and there that he had to have one.
I told him I would make him his own You Bag on one condition: he would have to let me do both his portraits.
I wanted the chance to paint Poison…
...but that didn’t mean I wanted to miss out on Kevin!
All fine and good, he agreed immediately. Then, before we’d actually gotten around to doing the photo shoots and interviews for the portraits, I asked still more of Kevin.
How would he feel about having OPB’s Oregon Art Beat film our interview? You know, as if it wasn’t enough to have my camera snapping away in his face, how would he feel about having a big television camera recording the whole thing too?
I’m not a fan of having my picture taken and I always feel gawky and self-conscious in front of video cameras, so I felt a little awkward about asking Kevin to do something that I would NEVER even think of doing…
...but I needn’t have worried. I’d chosen well by asking Kevin to be the twice documented interviewee. He was not just game for it: he made the shoot!
I can’t wait to get started on the Kevin/Poison bag, but, first things first, I have to finish one more painting before the install for A Brief History. It’s a group show with artists Elise Mravunac and Becca Bernstein, and it opens on First Thursday at the Littman Gallery! The portrait I’m set on completing is the “after” to go with a “before” that will also be on display. Both works are commissions (the clients were inspired by Swollen) and, though I did this year’s interview with the subject just a month ago, I’m determined to finish the painting so that it can debut in the gallery setting!
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