This is the tuba your mother warned you about…

[MiBrassFS]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/167245265360

[bloke]

DANG I like that!

Okay, I may just have to carefully cut out and contact cement a Varga girl to the front of my model 98 bell - or maybe my Holton bell.

I admit this is copycating, but it's just too good of an idea.

I should have thought about having that done 30 years ago with real paint - like acrylic paint, when my mother was in her 70s and could still paint as well as she ever could. I've mentioned this before several times, but she was a student of Grant Wood at the University of Iowa back in the 1930s, and not only that but clearly a prize student, as he actually asked her one time how she was achieving such realistic flesh tones in her paintings, and - until that horrible flood - one of her paintings hung in the entryway of the administration building.

I do not own the original, but this is a shitty low-res phone-pic of a PRINT of one of my Mom's still-life assignments when at the U of Iowa (of a set of three still-lifes, actually).



...and she understood the human/female form. This is another assignment - a very 1930's stylized wood carving (yet another assignment), and - well - my Mom was fairly well put-together herself.



bloke "terrible resolution/lighting/equipment re: both pics"

[bloke]

ok...peel-and-stick 12W x 20T wall decal...

https://www.cafepress.com/+alberto_varg ... ,573041361

[MiBrassFS]

Please tell me you do own some original(s) of her work.

[iiipopes]

Conn has nothing on the OP's picture!