Uma viagem de férias da Páscoa em 1978 para a Disney World me inspirou a pintar um ovo de personagem da Disney para minha filha mais nova. Eu era um artista de publicidade comercial na época e fazia um pouco de pintura. Depois do ovo da Disney, comecei a pintar os outros com diferentes cenários e temas, mas todos em um único ovo.
Então, uma noite eu tive um sonho em que me vi entre os pequenos que pareciam ovos. Mas ... os ovos superiores eram as suas cabeças e os ovos de baixo eram seus corpos. Isso é o que me motivou a começar a fazer as pessoas que utilizam mais de um ovo. Depois de criar alguns ovos desse tipo eu comecei a pintar animais, personagens de desenhos animados, motocicletas e outros assuntos. Isso levou a minha participação em mostras de arte e artesanato de ovos por alguns anos. Em um show de ovos nas férias logo eu estava tão ocupado com encomendas que solicitei a um amigo, Jerry Sidell, para começar a pintar os cenários. Eu, então, fazia os detalhes e as características. Assim, me tornei "The egg man" e Jerry "The Walrus", popularizada na canção dos Beatles "I Am The Walrus".
Já que a minha arte em ovo era única, jornais locais e estações de televisão começaram a fazer artigos e shows comigo e minhas criações. Localmente, eu estava no Angela Hill e programas Frank Davis, e nacionalmente no Regis and Kathy Lee, Rush Limbaugh e The Martha Stewart Show.Por muitos anos eu trabalhei no Mardi Gras da indústria como um suporte flutuante e pintor e não fazia os ovos. Mas em 2005 o furacão Katrina forçou a evacuação de nossa casa em Nova Orleans. Embora temporariamente mudei-me para West Virginia e comecei novamente a pintura de ovos como presentes para as muitas pessoas que me ajudaram lá.Mais tarde naquele ano, o interesse nacional da Martha Stewart Show me levou a montar um estúdio de arte novo e começou a produzir arte de ovos novamente. Agora, com a internet, websites e Ebay eu sou capaz de vender o meu trabalho para qualquer um, em qualquer lugar. E continua a ser um gratificante prazer transformar ovos simples em deliciosas criações artísticas.(Uma experiência muito incomum e excitante para mim em 2009 foi ser convidado a mostrar a minha arte de ovo e demonstrar minha técnica em dois grandes centros comerciais em Hong Kong).
A 1978 Easter vacation trip to Disney World inspired me to paint a Disney character egg for my young daughter. I was a commercial advertising artist at that time and did little painting. After the Disney egg I began to paint others with different scenes and subjects, but all on single eggs.
Then one night I had a dream in which I saw myself among little people who looked like eggs. But... the top eggs were their heads and the bottom eggs below were their bodies. That is what motivated me to begin making people using more than one egg. After creating a few eggs of this type I began painting animals, cartoon characters, motorcycles and other subjects. That led to my participation in craft and egg art shows for a few years. At a holiday egg show I was soon so busy with commissioned orders for requested-subject eggs that I asked a friend, Jerry Sidell to begin painting the backgrounds. I would then do the details and features. Thus, I became "The Egg Man" and Jerry "The Walrus" as popularized in the Beatles song, " I Am The Walrus."
Because my egg art was unique, local newspapers and televison stations began featuring me and my creations in articles and shows. Locally, I was on Angela Hill's and Frank Davis' programs, and nationally on Regis and Kathy Lee, Rush Limbaugh and The Martha Stewart Show.
For many years I worked in the busy year-round Mardi Gras industry as a prop and float painter and did no eggs. But in 2005 Hurricane Katrina forced evacuation from our home in New Orleans. While temporarily relocated in West Virginia I began again painting eggs as gifts for the many people who helped me there.
Later that year, the national interest of The Martha Stewart Show led me to set up a new egg art studio and began producing egg art again. Now, with the internet, web sites and Ebay I am able to sell my work to anyone, anywhere. It continues to be a rewarding pleasure to transform simple eggshells into delightful artistic creations.
(A very unusual and exciting experience for me in 2009 was to be invited to show my egg art and demonstrate my technique at two large shopping malls in Hong Kong).
Then one night I had a dream in which I saw myself among little people who looked like eggs. But... the top eggs were their heads and the bottom eggs below were their bodies. That is what motivated me to begin making people using more than one egg. After creating a few eggs of this type I began painting animals, cartoon characters, motorcycles and other subjects. That led to my participation in craft and egg art shows for a few years. At a holiday egg show I was soon so busy with commissioned orders for requested-subject eggs that I asked a friend, Jerry Sidell to begin painting the backgrounds. I would then do the details and features. Thus, I became "The Egg Man" and Jerry "The Walrus" as popularized in the Beatles song, " I Am The Walrus."
Because my egg art was unique, local newspapers and televison stations began featuring me and my creations in articles and shows. Locally, I was on Angela Hill's and Frank Davis' programs, and nationally on Regis and Kathy Lee, Rush Limbaugh and The Martha Stewart Show.
For many years I worked in the busy year-round Mardi Gras industry as a prop and float painter and did no eggs. But in 2005 Hurricane Katrina forced evacuation from our home in New Orleans. While temporarily relocated in West Virginia I began again painting eggs as gifts for the many people who helped me there.
Later that year, the national interest of The Martha Stewart Show led me to set up a new egg art studio and began producing egg art again. Now, with the internet, web sites and Ebay I am able to sell my work to anyone, anywhere. It continues to be a rewarding pleasure to transform simple eggshells into delightful artistic creations.
(A very unusual and exciting experience for me in 2009 was to be invited to show my egg art and demonstrate my technique at two large shopping malls in Hong Kong).
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