This is the tuba your mother warned you about…
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 3:53 pm
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"