Did you have a fun and fabulous weekend? We sure did! Very, very busy but very, very fun too! I hope you will enjoy seeing pictures of the Key Largo Whaling Wall that I promised a very long time ago, while I record some thoughts about a portion of the past weekend
for which the camera was left at home! Oh dear!
A highlight of the weekend was visiting one (he has 2 within a block of each other in Key West!) of Wyland's Galleries to watch the man paint. If you bought a brush painting (50% off, only $3,500 today!) he painted it right before your very eyes and your picture would be taken with Wyland and the finished painting.
After that, he completed an oil painting of two dolphins over a coral reef, named it Coral Reef Dance and auctioned it off for $14,000. Since there were only two bidders out of the crowd, Wyland stopped the bidding and promised a similar, yet unique, painting to the second bidder for the same price rather than continue to drive the price up. Which I thought was very decent of him.
Now, that is all a very interesting yet fairly bland description of part of our weekend. But it is really only the background for the amazing and fun part of the story.
Wyland was painting away, speedy gonzalez, at the huge brush paintings but when he began the finishing touches on the oil painting he began working much slower and muttering to himself. Eventually he dove beneath a nearby table, pulled out a toolbox and rummaged through it. Not finding what he was looking for he called for the gallery workers to look in the back for his glasses at which point Hal stepped forward with his basic reading glasses extended.
Wyland accepted and was able to complete his painting.