While waiting to get started on the Punta Gorda mural project my brother Tom told me a friend called him to ask me about painting a mural on his house. Bob is a great fan of Tom's music. I had met him at a bar Tom was playing at, and I met him again at his home when he hired Tom and the band to play at a party at his house.
Bob is an older man who has lived alone since his wife died. He has a great love of motorcycles. I don't think he rides anymore, but he has three old motorcycles displayed in his home like sculptures. But unlike sculptures they are working motorcycles as he pointed out to me when he started one up in his family room.
Bob opened a book of Harley motorcycles and said he would like this motorcycle painted on the back wall of his house. I said,"Sure I can do that." and a deal was struck with a hand shake.
I took the book home to make some sketches. Leafing through the book I saw many classic and customized motorcycles that seemed a more worthy choice to be painted on his wall. But this one perhaps has some significance to him. He wants to put a fresh coat of paint on the wall before I start painting, so it won't be until next week that I can get started.
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