Post #348984 by Formikahini on Tue, Dec 11, 2007 4:06 PM

By whom was the Kahiki one?
I can't make out the signature.

Same setting/kid/general pose - just a different angle.

...Which leads me to believe one copied another, changing it enough ("to not be copying" :wink: ) (or they both copied another!), rather than kid myself that the child posed in an artist's studio, where several velvet painters worked feverishly to capture this one boy's ukelele joy. (Of course even Leeteg made dozens of copies of his own paintings, changing them somewhat as time went on.)

But I love the mental picture of that! Like the impressionists and the cubists who really did all sit around and paint the same thing, comparing techniques and being inspired by each other.

Can't you just picture the black velvet painting factories in the Philippines that way?
"Wow, Jose, I love the little pout you put on her upper lip with that touch of white."
"Thanks, Maria Teresa; I admire the way you highlighted her nipple with that little dab of pink paint there. Might if I borrow some of your pink to highlight mine?"
"Yours or your painting's?" (Snarky laughter.)
"Hahahaha! You're so clever, for a moment I thought I was trading witticisms with Dorothy Parker in the Algonquin Room! You almost made me forget I was working in a sweatshop for $20 a month! Hahahaha!"

Ok, maybe it didn't happen quite like that.