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Boundary Series XI Wood Print
by Thomas Stead
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Boundary Series XI wood print by Thomas Stead. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and added depth of a wood print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 3/4" thick maple wood. There are D-clips on the back of the print for mounting it to your wall using mounting hooks and nails (included).
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I lived near a large rail yard when I was quite young. Every night I listened to the cry of the Wabash Cannonball (a famous train). One day an older... more
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I lived near a large rail yard when I was quite young. Every night I listened to the cry of the Wabash Cannonball (a famous train). One day an older neighborhood boy dragged me to the rail yard and then ditched me there (I was about 8). While trying to find my way out which involved some tunnels I was nearly hit by the Wabash Cannonball as it came barreling through the yards. It missed me by inches so I have quite an impression of it visually. I made some drawings of it years ago. One hangs on my youngest sister's wall. A family friend of theirs,dale (always small d), used to come over to her home, sit in front of it and stare at it. Since I hadn't painted the engine I decided to give it a go as a core image in a bigger painting. I called my sister and told her I had started on the engine and that dale would probably like it. That's when she informed me that he had passed the very day I had started the painting. I decided to paint dale's likeness in the cab and place a small plaque on...
About Thomas Stead
My family owned a technical illustration firm so I spent part of my youth observing illustrators produce impossibly complicated projects for Fortune 500 clients. The advantage of my exposure to the profession was simply that I knew the seemingly impossible could be done and that it required an unbelievable work ethic to accomplish.I was not that interested in an illustration career, but I loved to paint. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to a BFA program and then to an MFA degree program in painting. I have had highly divergent influences. After teaching for several years for Ohio U I wrote the art degrees at Shawnee State University and became their first department chair before retiring from FT teaching in 2005. I moved to...
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