who painted this?

Submitted by mars333 on Mar 08, 2008 in Arts
Tags: art  painting  skateboard  artist  poster 
who painted this?

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I found this painting with stumbleupon, but there was no source given. who is the artist? where can a get a hires version of this picture or where can i buy it?

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Jarrick on Mar 09, 2008 at 17:53 PM
This is Ron Francis' Skateboarding. You might enjoy even more of his paintings on his website: http://www.adam.com.au/ronfrancis/ There's a link to the painting as well with more info on the painting: "This image was inspired by a childhood memory. The suburb was somewhere around the north side of Sydney harbour and I was the boy on the skateboard. I increased the pitch of the road to 30 degrees, which is difficult to stand on, and made the viewer the same height as the boy so that from the right viewpoint you should feel like you are standing on the road as well, inducing a sense of impending danger and vertigo. I built a ramp with a slope of 30 degrees to match the slope of the road and had a friend's child model on it for me. I then photographed him from the viewing position and used it as a reference." The original has been sold.
who painted this?
mars333 on Mar 15, 2008 at 07:04 AM
thanks you very much! :)))))

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