[RKDinOKC]

Yeah, my uncle was a modern impressionist artist like that. Talked to him in ernest a few times. Seems all that is really important to sell art is colors people like, your credentials (he was Senior Art Professor at Oklahoma University), and the story about the piece, it's got to have an interesting story to put on the gallery card and in the sales literature.

He used to pour the chemicals that make foam in a 2x4 frame over a camp fire and toss stuff in to make it more interesting while the foam expands and bubbles. Once hardened he would paint and stain it.

I know it was all BS, because when I was four he had me help toss stuff in the foam. I threw in rocks, leaves, some rollie pollies, and a live cicada, it crawled around making tracks before it died embedded in the foam. He painted the piece zebra stripes and called it The Zoo.

Two of them came out looking almost identical, he bolted them together and call it Stereo.