Snoozin’
"Snoozin'" by Lesley Spanos. Acrylic painting on Ampersand Gessobord, 7 x 5". Copyright ©2011 Lesley Spanos, all rights reserved.
It was a hot and humid August day at the Indiana State Fair. This pig raised a lazy eyelid when he heard my camera, then went back to sleep. I guess when you’re on display from early morning until late at night, you need to be able to catch a nap whenever you can. What I loved was how it looked like he’d fallen asleep mid-step, his butt on the edge of his feed trough.
Painting the State Fair
State Fair, USA is artist Lesley Spanos' tribute to the American agricultural fair. "Just about anything I would want to paint can be found at the Fair."
The series is the culmination of years of research. Spanos has photographed and sketched her local fair - the Indiana State Fair - extensively for the past four summers, amassing a large collection of reference material for working in-studio. Ultimately the collection is destined for a book and fine art reproductions. (Read about the project in more depth here.)
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