childhood popping plug painting by John Morfis
"My Childhood Popping Plug" • 9×6 inches • Oil

Don't you merely hate information technology when your favorite painting is too your smallest painting? I retrieve this painting was one of my best for 2014. At only 9 by 6 inches information technology is besides my smallest painting. Even though the artwork depicts a fishing lure type of object I still consider information technology to be office of my tool portrait series – a series of devotional style still life paintings I've been creating since the 2nd half of 2013.

Part of me wishes "My Childhood Popping Plug" was just a wee bit bigger, only maybe its small size is partly responsible for information technology's success. This fishing item, an old wooden popping plug was indeed my childhood fishing plug of choice. I can remember begging my father to get it for me and then we could catch saltwater blue fish in the creek about our firm. Later on a while my father finally broke down and took me down to "Norm's Bait Shop" and bought the blue popping plug for me and another plug for himself. Those unproblematic little fishing plugs caught a lot of fish. If I tin locate his popping plug I'll surely be painting it also. Hopefully I can find it, they are about 30 years erstwhile now, man how time flies!

This painting required much detail piece of work. With my trusty liner brush I spent plenty of fourth dimension perfecting the hooks and eyelets that adorned the popping plug. In the spirit of my unabridged tool portrait series the hooks were well worn and extremely rusty. Thanks table salt water! Painting all that rust certainly chosen for some burnt sienna and yellow ochre. How oftentimes I find myself resorting back to globe tones. Information technology's no wonder artists where able to create such cute paintings with and then few pigments fashion back when.