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.
no. 35
Six-year-olds are wiggly! Madeleine actually held pretty still for the first 20 minutes, which was very impressive. I met her mother, Bleu, at the Painted Temple in Provo. Her mom and dad own the business. They are very nice people and really love Provo. They like to support small business in Provo as much as possible. I painted Madeleine in their new location on University Pkwy. Madeleine is funny. She said she likes to paint too. She told me that she painted a flower that day at school. She ran around plenty during breaks from the portrait. She also helped me pick a color to put in the background. I like it.
no. 34Cody saw some of the other paintings from this project in Trendz Cafe and gave me a call. So I painted him. He is a musician and a very a good one at that, from what I've heard. He played a song for me out in the grass in front of Guru's Cafe after I missed the little set he played there after another set he played at a charity event in town after he sat for this portrait. He keeps busy. He has recently acquired an interesting job if you want to ask him about it. I will set a link to his music as soon as he gives me one.
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.
