Football Painting Players Running Back and Tackle Art
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The football art painting is 6 feet by 8 feet, acrylic on
unstretched canvas.
Why didn't I play
football in high school? Pain. Suffering. Didn't make sense to me. Didn't have the time either because I wanted
to go surfing after school. If I was
going to hit anything it was never going to be the school books or another guy
on a football field. All I wanted to do
was to hit the beach. Actually I would
climb over the chain-link gym fence at lunchtime and ditch school early to go
surfing. I had a Fifty-Five Ford
business coup (great link to photo of a 55
Ford Business Coup similar to what I had) that had no back seat so the
surfboard could slide in the trunk and go through where the back seat should
have been. In those early days of surfing
there was no surf rack. The boards
either rode inside the car or rested on a towel and tied to the roof with
straps wound through the windows. We
did take a football to the beach with us to pass around as we rested between
times in the water. After getting tossed
into the ocean and soaked in saltwater a number of times the ball dried out
and become hard as a rock. After a
period of time the leather got salt stains on it's surface - and
the dogs used it as a salt lick.
