So Thursday was good ole’ David Rose’s last day at Red Storm. As a token of our esteem and appreciation, Dave commissioned a special drawing from Tommy Long, which turned into a very special painting by Old Man Foltz.
Behold Tommy’s masterful original whiteboard artwork :
Notice the column of buttons going up Mr. Norris’s chest. Since there is no collar or cuffs, I had to assume that the buttons were for Chuck’s skin. Note also the fiery power in Chuck’s deadly eyes. The speed and force of the Round House kick has disentegrated Mr. Norris’s right boot. That is real ultimate power!
The painting had a lot to live up to. It was a daunting task to depict Chuck Norris, as experienced by the Karate Kid, who is so unimportant in the drawing that not only is he half Chuck’s height, but he is also bald. There was a similar convention in Medieval art.
After about 11 hours and many individually painted chest hairs, I rushed some varnish on the painting to call it finished.
Tommy and I unveiled the painting and presented it to Dave right before we headed to Torero’s for David’s farewell lunch. An excited audience composed of friends and fans of the weird and fantastic gathered to behold the force of a Norris Round House kick captured in acrylic.
Observe that Frog and Rabbit are referenced in the post Karate Kid used for his doomed Crane Kick.
I asked Matt Turner to help decorate the frame, after supplying him with a frame, a cowbell, and an odd assortment of toys, eyehooks, and epoxy. He engraved some boisterous phrases on both sides of the cowbell. This frame needs no more cowbell.
Here are a few details of the odd knights, pirates, ninjas, and monkeys paying homage to Mr. Norris.
Consider the bowlegged Knight, and the ninja/pirate with a lumpy pointed stick thing. Clearly they intend bodily harm to the mysterious pink creature, but does he look worried? Certainly not. With perfect calm, he awaits his fate.
In this second detail, a pirate with a Star Trek style phaser guards a treasure chest. On the left side of the chest, a Muscle figure wards off a greedy dinosaur intent on eating the treasure.
So today at work, not only was the room empty of a fabulous Chuck Norris painting, but our robot and monkey quotient was severely depleted! Good luck out West, Dave! We’ll miss you here in the East!
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While the painting itself (along with the drawing that inspired it) were a joy to behold, I’m glad you posted these pics for us to remember it, and MonkeyBoy, by. Sweet mama, what a cool painting!
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