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When I started this one, I was enthusiastic that it would be one of my best ones. I had a lot of good sources to work from. There were many great paintings produced during this era and much like the previous Baroque period, the Rococo era had a lot of very detailed and ornate costumes. I was also in an especially creative mood when I started this one BUT it didn’t turn out all that great. I basically found out that people have no interest in buying these barpics and no art galleries will show them. This kind of took the wind out of my sails and I was less than enthusiastic about drawing barpics from that point on. As with all of the poorer ones, there are a few isolated parts that came out well but on the whole, I just didn’t have the spirit and enthusiasm in it.

Clothing went through only minor changes over these 3 decades, but one notable exception is men’s wigs. Around the 1730’s men wore a full head of long, curly hair. It gradually got shorter and by about 1760, the curls had been reduced to just a few rolls on each side of the head.
The two characters in the middle foreground were taken from a Wm. Hogarth painting from the “Marriage a la Mode” series. I love the pose of the girl stretching. It looks so natural. The fat guy above and slightly to the left of her is “Hurley” from the TV show “Lost”.
I needed something to fill in the area in the lower right, so I put in a bunch of monkeys just for something different and silly. You can almost see the erratic, skittering movement of them.
The lady in the right foreground is from the painting of Mme. Du Pompadour by Francois Boucher . That’s me to the left of her. The guy on the other side of her is looking down at the monkeys thinking “What the hell are THOSE doing here?”
Look for Sam Adams too. He's in front and to the right of the fireplace.