Painting Fine-Art Cartoons in Oils - Enchanted Images

Detail from my copy of “Time Out For Therapy.”
Detail from my copy of “Business as Usual.”
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Detail from my copy of “I Found It, I Keep It.”
Detail from my copy of “McDuck of Duckburg.”
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A part of my collection
of Graphics Gallery art
catalogues from the
late 1970s. Before the
publication of The Fine
Art of Donald Duck, and
long before the Internet,
these art catalogues,
published by collectors
Bruce Hamilton and Russ
Cochran, provided almost
the only source of Barks
reproductions.
I learned to paint by
copying these reprints of
Barks’s oils.
Details of four of the
copies I painted in the
late 1970s. Note that
“Time Out For Therapy”
was copied from a
reproduction (top right)
that was less than four
inches wide. My eyesight
was much better
in 1979.