Moses Botkin Challenge for February: Tools of the Trade

This month's subject was "Tools of the Trade". Because I've already painted a few art supplies in the past, I decided to challenge myself with something else. Because I've already painted a few art supplies in the past, I decided to challenge myself with something else.



(left) "Barber Tools"
Original oil on hardboard 6"x8"
©2012Diana Moses Botkin

My grandfather was a barber. He and my grandmother ran a barber and beauty shop in a large midwestern city. The steel scissors in this painting belonged to him and the neck brush was either his or my grandma's. The shop lives only in the minds of those who frequented its floors decades ago. There is now a super highway where it used to stand.

You can read more about this painting and this month's Challenge, including all the Group's paintings at my blog post.