Wild Art Wednesday
OWN a Piece of Padre History
It never occurred to me that Grandma was doing some historical mining when she would stop at the postcard display – you remember those spinning rounders that sat at the registers on South Padre right? – and she would take not one, but two, three sometimes even five postcards of the same and add them to the bill. (If you don’t know what a postcard is? Just ask me. It goes way back to the days of the “post office.”)
A few survived long enough for me to dig them up and after spending my time on South Padre Island in late 2022 halfway into 2023, I recognized them as valuable timepieces that show what the Island once was. They don’t go quite back to my first memories of South Padre Island in the early 60’s, but those aerials certainly capture an island on the cusp of being changed forever.
And the innocence of beach combing couples belied the tumult of the Island’s late 60’s hippie invasion, that by the early 70’s was just another memory.
I only have a few originals, so I decided to do better, and now have these reproductions for purchase in my SHOP. If you are unfamiliar with framing, then let me explain the description on the postcards … when an image is “floated” that means they are printed (by me archivally) on an oversize sheet of quality photo paper. That makes them ripe for quality framing, and that is a service I also offer for all the artwork in my gallery. Quality prints in quality frames for artwork with South Padre Island, and Borderlands
TEXAS ARTIST
Pinky Diablo is a Texas original artist. If you know the guy, you know that isn't even his name! But for the sake of running from fame, we choose to keep the aka. Pinky Diablo while he is in witness protection. His integration of the skeleton-skull culture so prominent in the Hispanic Dia de los Muertos art and fly fishing's most quirky moments - make all the Pinky Diablo art a purely original pursuit for your fly fishing man cave.
- Original 10"X13" watercolor on inside book cover - 150.00 (1 of 1)
- 11X16 Archival reproduction on Watercolor paper - 100.
- 8X10 Archival Reproduction on Watercolor paper - 60.
- 5X7 Archival Reproduction on Watercolor paper - 40.
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