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This is a composite I made using a portrait of Mark Twain from an old Campbell's soup ad with a Budweiser promotional painting by O.E. Berninghaus of St. Louis in the 1870's. The styles of the two artists are pretty compatible together.  Comp I made with Twain from an old advertisement by an artist named Brissaud for Old Crow or one of those boozes and put some calendar art of the initialed only "A.C." of the GC Greene in the background. The styles of the two pieces of art was quite different but it's good enough for government work . . . 
Took a graphic of Twain which had a not particularly good face and standing beside him was a red setter dog. I got a face from another source, touched out the dog and borrowed a cat from Norman Rockwell. Now we're cookin' . . . |
I combined a Mark Twain cigar box label graphic and lettering with the mirror image of a post card of the steamboat Helen Blair. I was happy the way it came out. Nice strong silhouette on the boat with its peaky roofed pilot house and those funky clouds the post card artist dreamed up. It has a sort of surrealistic quality to it in a way. Viva Zam Klemenz! 
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