Norm van Maastricht | January 2, 2009
I knew an exotic beauty and was thinking of doing a painting of her. She demurred and asked me instead to make one of Betty Boop. So I did, just to see if I could make it work. She’s about 12″ tall Never did get to try for the portrait of the girl herself because [...]
Norm van Maastricht | December 14, 2008
This is one I actually have hanging on the wall in my apartment. Taken from a magazine tear-out Because it’s here I can relate what is written on the back. First line reads “Didn’t get her name” But it has an asterisk and it goes on to say “Based on a pose by Barbara Bouchet. [...]
Norm van Maastricht | November 23, 2008
This lovely lass turned out to be my most important model now that I think about it. Certainly the one I photographed most. She would patiently do whatever I asked when I was learning to use my first Nikon camera and some of the shots of her are the best I have ever taken. Since my paintings used [...]
Norm van Maastricht | November 15, 2008
Every painting has a story but some have more story than others… James Cameron’s TheTitanic came out in 1997 and was, as we all know, a huge hit. I saw it and I thought the visuals were pretty impressive. The epic special effects chronicled the historical disaster as best it could, being wrapped as it was, around a fairly standard [...]
Norm van Maastricht | November 2, 2008
Another segment of a project The Rise and Fall of a Saloon In The Latter Part off The Twentieth Century. These excerpts are not chronological. In fact very little logic prevails… The Great Bengal Pack-In When The Bar first opened the surface of the bar didn’t have any special construct at the [...]
