The Guardian
Back in my early art career days I used to think that I needed to create an entirely new body of work every year. So. one year I did music, another year I did ocean, another year I did cats, and the year I created this piece it was dragons. I stopped doing different themes every year once I realized that people didn't recognize my work from year to year. But I did have fun coming up with ideas for the theme.
This piece was part of my dragon series. Originally the dragon was going to be sitting on top of a pile of treasure. I even started making a bunch of gold lamé coins. But, it wasn't quite working. I did end up making another piece with a dragon on his treasure, but not this piece. Instead, I was inspired by the castles of England. Particularly Warwick Castle since I visited there many years ago. I used an image of one of the towers as the inspiration for this piece.
The original of this has sold.
One story to tell about this piece...
I had finished the piece, but couldn't come up with a name for it. I had it hanging on my wall at an art show. When kids would come along and look at my dragon I would tell them that he needs a name. So they would give me a random name like George or Harry. When they did, I would give them one of the leftover gold lamé coins and they were very excited to get their "coin". Many years later at the same art show a woman came up to me and said, "I don't know if you remember but years ago you gave my son a coin for naming your dragon. He still has it and he took it with him when he went off to college." Wow! That just made my day.
This piece was part of my dragon series. Originally the dragon was going to be sitting on top of a pile of treasure. I even started making a bunch of gold lamé coins. But, it wasn't quite working. I did end up making another piece with a dragon on his treasure, but not this piece. Instead, I was inspired by the castles of England. Particularly Warwick Castle since I visited there many years ago. I used an image of one of the towers as the inspiration for this piece.
The original of this has sold.
One story to tell about this piece...
I had finished the piece, but couldn't come up with a name for it. I had it hanging on my wall at an art show. When kids would come along and look at my dragon I would tell them that he needs a name. So they would give me a random name like George or Harry. When they did, I would give them one of the leftover gold lamé coins and they were very excited to get their "coin". Many years later at the same art show a woman came up to me and said, "I don't know if you remember but years ago you gave my son a coin for naming your dragon. He still has it and he took it with him when he went off to college." Wow! That just made my day.
