After the gardens, we had a nice late lunch over at Llewelynns Pub, an Irish pub in the Central West End. Good fish and chips! Saw an exciting ending to the Mizzou/Baylor basketball game (unfortunately Baylor won).
From there we went across the street to see a couple of antique shops - the really expensive kind. Man, there were some really nice pieces, though - a really beautiful four-post bed from the early 19th century! We also went over to the Atrium Gallery, where the main exhibit was a collection of paintings by Keith Jacobshagen. He really had some great lighting going on in his pieces - the sunsets looked so real! The gallery itself is partly owned by Victor Wang, who is a painting instructor over at Fontbonne University where Jenny and I went to college. He does some absolutely breathtaking work - uses a lot of oil paints that have been (for lack of a better word) dried out, and thickened, making some really great textures. None of it was on exhibit, unfortunately, so ma couldn't see it up close, but the nice lady (did that sound like Jerry Lewis? "Nice laaaaayyydeeeee!") working there remembered me from the last time I was there and gave us a nice little booklet that contained a good number of Victor's work, so ma could at least get an idea. Victor has one recurring theme in a lot of his work the last several years - sunflowers. Read his bio to find out why. It's a very interesting and touching story. This gave me an idea for tonight's stroke. I just grabbed my pallet and a knife, dug into the yellow and a little bit of white, and slapped it on the canvas.
Well, off to watch some more of the Olympics! G'night, all!
P.S. - for those of you wondering what "fludders" was, that's what Jenny's cousin used to call flowers when she was very young. I've called them "fludders" ever since!
Just checking in on your painting! It's looking good! Love the blog too!
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