Invisible Art

To Paint A Clown 

I'm not a fan of the circus,

but I've always loved vintage posters of clowns.

I remember as a child seeing them in shop windows

and thinking I had to go to the circus

or surely die! But the event itself 

was always a bit of a disappointment with diminished 

expectations over the years.

I made the above college from a transfered image

of a  1929 Hagenbeck Wallace Circus  poster that

I found in a delightful book, Invisible Art by the Art Brothers.

The inside of the book jacket says:

"The ART in this book is INVISIBLE in the sense that much of it

has been overlooked, dismissed, or forgotten. Further, a prevailing

notion that art is to be found only in museums and galleries keeps most

of us from the full enjoyment of the visual pleasures which life offers."

The book contains a variety of "invisible" vintage, classic, and iconic images

from postcards to coloring book covers.

Lots of stuff mixed media artists collect and cherish.