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Hard Rain by Jamie Condon - an original acrylic on board.
The whole song was an inspiration but particularly the lines:
"I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning"
Obviously a pretty bleak, nightmarish depiction of what was going on in 1962 when Bob wrote it and what is still going on now, 55 years later and still the U.S. and Russia can't get on and we have a madman in the White House ready to press the button and someone even more insane in North Korea pushing him to do it! The white figure in the painting is the silhouette of a N Korean soldier.
Jamie Condon occasionally works in oil but generally use heavy body acrylics, I like the consistency and they dry much faster; this allows me the freedom to work quite quickly and be able to layer paints using brushes and palette knives on top of each other. I nearly always paint on hardboard as I don't like the movement of stretched canvas when I’m trying to do precise work. I prefer the solid nature of the boards.
