Description
This piece is an excerpt from my trip to Italy and came right during my bull phase. Just like the horses, I always find myself going back to bulls.
I decided to paint a rainy day on the streets of Bologna, but then thought, why not have a group of bulls moving right through the crowd? Everyone in the scene is acting like everything is completely normal—just another rainy day in the city. The idea came after watching a documentary about the Running of the Bulls in Spain. There are exactly 13 figures woven into the busy background, and the piece includes a subtle nod to Freed, a fellow artist whose work I really admire.
Within the pages of Wackadoodle the Poodle, this dense, rainy landscape serves a massive narrative purpose near the very end of the book. It captures the bittersweet moment where Wack and Moe are finally leaving town. As they move through the jumbled city crowd, it looks like nobody knows where they are headed next—but the final page will let you know there is a sequel coming!
My friend and I have a series of three books completely mapped out, and we are waiting for a publisher to pick it up before we officially finish the next chapters of their journey.