If you ever come over to our home you’ll probably notice that I have a thing for Blue Dog. If you aren’t familiar with Blue Dog, it’s George Rodrigue’s most famous subject. I first saw a Blue Dog painting while I was in New Orleans having dinner. There was a huge painting hanging in the restaurant. I had never seen or heard of this artist before, but it was love at first site.
When we first heard that the exhibit was coming to Longview we were so excited and last week we finally got to go. Hannah was busy so Jackson and I decided that we would go check it out and it did not disappoint.
I mean, c’mon, I got a smile out of him. He rarely smiles in pictures.
We now have two fine arts museums. This is the newest and it used to be a bank.
We took a picture at the selfie stop.
Hannah was disappointed that she wasn’t able to go so yesterday she and I visited.
Both Hannah and Jackson picked this picture as their favorite.
The saddest picture was the one that George never finished. He died of cancer and this was left on his easel. You can see the sketch lines.
After we finished touring this museum we decided to head a street over to see this exhibit at the main art museum. It’s called six degrees of separation because each vignette is connected somehow. We found several pieces that we really liked.
This was my favorite.
This was Hannah’s.
We both liked this one. The background are Splenda wrappers.
It was such fun days taking each of the kiddos separately to hear their take on all of the art.
I also couldn’t leave without buying a poster and a decal.
Jackson and I ran by the thrift store on the way home to see if I could find a small frame for the decal. I found the almost perfect one. I just had to paint the back of it to compliment Jackson’s Picasso rendition.
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