Punk Girl
While this certainly wasn't my first painting, in retrospect it and others like it did get me started on a tangent that was to eventually develop into what would become my style. Previous to this I had trouble concentrating on anything significant since I really wasn't very entertained by anything going on around me. But the punk movement that I encountered in the college town of Norman, OK, finally provided me with an environment that I was passionate about.
This is one of a few paintings that I did at that time of punks. She is just a fictitious character. I like the comment that my dad made about her at the time, which was that she "looks like she just got thrown from the third floor of a whorehouse."
At the time I was doing acrylic paintings on raw canvas just as an experiment, and this is on raw canvas.