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Chicago O’Hare International Airport
Terminal 1 Gate B6 and Terminal 2 Gate E5
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Chicago, Illinois
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The Hearst Center for the Arts
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The Hearst Center for the Arts
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MacCallum More Museum
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Paint Madison County Art Contest and Exhibition
Plain Air Contest Time: 9:00am to 1:00pm, Sep 22, 2024
The artists picked a location in Winterset, Iowa to create a painting on site in 4 hours
Winterset, Iowa
"A Taste of Hometown" is a painting about a real place and real people sharing a connection to that place but those people who have never met each other in real life were enjoying their time together in this painting.
It was created during the 4-hour plain air contest in Winterset, Iowa. It captures John Wayne (middle) at the Covered Bridges Winery. The winery owner (right) was serving John Wayne their best wine. The buyer of the painting (left), in the same outfit as John Wayne and with his favorite rusty beer mug in his hand, just wanted to have a drink with John Wayne in the painting.
The painting was 60% completed with John Wayne and the winery owner (10:00am to 1:00pm). In the first hour (9:00am to 10:00am), the owner of the winery shared some stories about John Wayne as well as their wines, designed bottle, and glasses. Then, he picked a canvas and posed as John Wayne at his bar before he left. His arm looked a little bit awkward in the painting due to a wrong angle of the pose and the dimension of the canvas picked. Since it was fixable and nobody worried about his arm, it was left that way. As he requested, his face was recognizable without many details. Instead, more details were added to his designed bottle. The space behind John Wayne made perfect sense for a different buyer to jump in and fill that space later.
Around 5:00pm, visitors started flooding the exhibition tent. They recognized the characters in the painting and happily took selfies. Other painters took photos of the painting and said that painting John Wayne in 4 hours was too bold. "I would never pick this theme in a contest. What if I could not finish it or do it right?" said an artist. Shortly after the reception started, a retired farmer named Randy walked by. He was one of the visitors who expressed interest to buy it. When he started talking about John Wayne, his hands became shaky. He loved the idea that he could have a drink with his idol in the painting. He browsed other pieces and walked straight back. Randy was the quickest to put a "SOLD" tag to the painting so nobody else would get it. "Tell me 'how can I get into the painting?'" he asked. He ran around in the winery to borrow a cowboy hat and grabbed another tall guy to make poses. He picked a spot on canvas, an outfit, and his favorite rusty beer mug. He would love to have John Wayne to hold his beer mug, but I told him that would take a few hours to swap them on a painting.
It was created during the 4-hour plain air contest in Winterset, Iowa. It captures John Wayne (middle) at the Covered Bridges Winery. The winery owner (right) was serving John Wayne their best wine. The buyer of the painting (left), in the same outfit as John Wayne and with his favorite rusty beer mug in his hand, just wanted to have a drink with John Wayne in the painting.
The painting was 60% completed with John Wayne and the winery owner (10:00am to 1:00pm). In the first hour (9:00am to 10:00am), the owner of the winery shared some stories about John Wayne as well as their wines, designed bottle, and glasses. Then, he picked a canvas and posed as John Wayne at his bar before he left. His arm looked a little bit awkward in the painting due to a wrong angle of the pose and the dimension of the canvas picked. Since it was fixable and nobody worried about his arm, it was left that way. As he requested, his face was recognizable without many details. Instead, more details were added to his designed bottle. The space behind John Wayne made perfect sense for a different buyer to jump in and fill that space later.
Around 5:00pm, visitors started flooding the exhibition tent. They recognized the characters in the painting and happily took selfies. Other painters took photos of the painting and said that painting John Wayne in 4 hours was too bold. "I would never pick this theme in a contest. What if I could not finish it or do it right?" said an artist. Shortly after the reception started, a retired farmer named Randy walked by. He was one of the visitors who expressed interest to buy it. When he started talking about John Wayne, his hands became shaky. He loved the idea that he could have a drink with his idol in the painting. He browsed other pieces and walked straight back. Randy was the quickest to put a "SOLD" tag to the painting so nobody else would get it. "Tell me 'how can I get into the painting?'" he asked. He ran around in the winery to borrow a cowboy hat and grabbed another tall guy to make poses. He picked a spot on canvas, an outfit, and his favorite rusty beer mug. He would love to have John Wayne to hold his beer mug, but I told him that would take a few hours to swap them on a painting.