I photoshopped in my drawings, replacing Monet with my work, not realizing the implications it had.

It’s funny how the mind works. I was simply playing around with adding my work to an art museum. I have done it before with my a photo of ex-wife, a photo of Akira, even my first dog Oliver. What I didn’t plan was the reaction that I got from my friends.

I sent both the current museum photo and the one which I posted to yesterday to several friends: Nick, Rhoda and Heather. All of them had the same reaction, that I should take these smaller studies and make them into much larger paintings. Heather said to me after seeing the photo posted yesterday: “Mike, I’d love to see that done in at least a 50x40 inch size.” Rhoda was so excited when she saw this photo and started texting me immediately. “Do you see how you have perfectly planned a body of work? You made studies then chose several to develop further…Make paintings as big as those drawings are in the photo!…It’s plain as day, and right there in front of you!” I am not promising these paintings over night, but now I have some guidance on what kind of art to make (after I get some way over due commissions finished up).