Young
Trumpeter

48" x 40"
Oil on Canvas
2007

This painting is a study of a participant of the Jazz painting, as I was preparing for 10 paintings of Jazz, of which one or two very large Jazz canvases. 

Here we see a young boy walking and blowing into his little pipe.  He is full of joy;  his eyes are bright and looking to the future when he will create those magic sounds to fill us with joie de vivre.