Thursday, February 18, 2016

For TBT: Teen paintings

1973 painting Baracoa, Cuba by F. Lennox Campello
Memories of Baracoa, Cuba
circa 1973, 20x16 inches
House paint on cardboard by F. Lennox Campello
In the collection of Ana Olivia Cruzata, Viuda de Campello, Hialeah, Florida

Memories of Cuba
circa 1972, 16x40 inches
House paint on found board by F. Lennox Campello
In the collection of Ana Olivia Cruzata, Viuda de Campello, Hialeah, Florida

For TBT: The fish drawings

As I've noted before, between 1992-1993 I was lucky to have lived in wondrous Sonoma, California, the real queen city of the wine country.

While I lived there, I used to drive down to Monterey and do an art fair there... one year, a local seafood restaurant owner who collected my work proposed to me to do a few drawings of some of the fish that he served in exchange for a lifetime free food at the restaurant (which had been on the Monterey Fisherman's Wharf for years, and it's still there to this day.

I agreed, and later on I drove down again, checked in, ate lunch and then went into the kitchen area, where they brought out the fish, nicely laid on a bed of ice.

I used a Sumi brush and ink to capture the images of the fish that they served... some of them are shown below:

Fish - Sumi Brush on paper - 1993 F. Lennox Campello

Seattle Salmon - Sumi Brush on paper - 1993 F. Lennox Campello

Fish - Sumi Brush on paper - 1993 F. Lennox Campello

Fish - Sumi Brush on paper - 1993 F. Lennox Campello

Fish - Sumi Brush on paper - 1993 F. Lennox Campello