Art in Provo is growing and fluctuating. "Hour Provo" is an effort to contribute to that growth and to allow the diverse people that make up our community to become the art themselves. These folks are just some of the elements and ingredients that represent Provo. Each individual’s portrait is captured in oil paints and painted directly from the live model in one hour.
Our community has a wealth of diversity. Some have been here for multiple generations while others have been here only months. Some ask for money for food and some ask for political votes. There are musicians, businessmen, children, artists, mothers, students, old and young, poor and rich. There are many beliefs and many ethnic backgrounds. All are equal. Whether prominent or subtle, each individual is given the same attention as a part of "Hour Provo". Each is painted in one hour and each is equally represented.
Please contribute to our community.
-STEVENps - I no longer regularly post to this blog but please look through to see all the 51 portraits. Quick links to each are on the side bar, or just scroll through.
Ellen Buchert
no. 30
Ellen is a wonderful and peaceful woman. I got to go paint her portrait right in her backyard. She has animals and trees and a garden. Afterwords her kind daughter made us a great lunch. I did something crazy. I ate tomatoes. I never eat straight tomatoes. They had some huge ones plucked right from the backyard. I really liked them. Maybe I can go back there claiming I forgot a brush and get more fresh tomatoes...
The art scene in Provo is growing and fluctuating. "Hour Provo" is an effort to contribute to that growth and to allow the diverse people that make up our community to become the art themselves. These folks are just some of the elements and ingredients that represent Provo. Each individual’s portrait was captured in oil paints and painted directly from the live model in one hour.
Our community has a wealth of diversity. Some have been here for multiple generations while others have been here only months. Some ask for money for food and some ask for political votes. There are musicians, businessmen, children, artists, mothers, students, old and young, poor and rich. There are many beliefs and many ethnic backgrounds. All are equal. Whether prominent or subtle, each individual is given the same attention as a part of "Hour Provo". Each is painted in one hour and each is equally represented.
Please contribute to our community.
Hi Steve -
ReplyDeleteI've been following your blog/painting for awhile now. I love to see what you're doing and the people you're meeting! I painted at one point in time - then I had 7 kids and did away with that idea! So, I picked up a camera and haven't put it down since! Wow, I think there is hope for my kids yet - that is with tomatoes - they hate them too! Glad you saw the 'light'.
Continue on - love what you're doing - using your talent.
I stumbled upon you while surfing the web. What a shock and surprise to see a painting of my mother! I love your work! Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteI love this work. It's reasonably strange to realize that ones mother is getting older; it's reassuring to think that long-enjoyed fundamentals of her personhood just aren't changing at all.
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