Post #82822 by Nui Nui 2 on 03/25/2004

When I got my current job about six years ago my boss introduced me to a friend of his who used to stop by our shop once or twice a week and hang around and ask a lot of annoying questions about some of the processes we used (we are a sign shop). My boss said he was an artist and I assumed he painted portraits of dogs and sailboats as his questions seemed quite basic. I had lunch with him a couple of times and went by his house with the boss periodically. It wasn't until a couple of years later that I was reading that issue of Barracuda that I looked at the picture and realized it was Eric Askew. But my boss had quit and I missed out on a golden opportunity to pick his brain. Its quite ironic because when I was in art school in San Francisco I did some velvet paintings of things like Hello Kitty just to piss people off but never could quite master the technique.