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This is a sister painting to a painting i did called "Happy Hour at the Lone Cypress". The lone cypress is a famous tree in Pebble Beach California that is well know, used a a logo for the pebble beach company and photographed by tots of tourist. I decided to do a painting almost exactly like this one of the lone cypress. after creating the painting and using it on a postcard to advertise a show I was having I was contacted by Pebble Beach that I had to sign away the rights to producing the painting in print form because it was a infringement on their trademark. I was thinking how can I not paint a living tree mostly as differently as I did it. But after researching i found they had done this to several photographers and artist. I thought about trying to fight it but like all the artist before me they have too much money and i had very little for a court battle. I did have to sign away the rights but ended up getting on the front cover of an article about the company bullying around ar...

PAXTON - "Living a life of Dreams" Paxton Mobley was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1970. At the age of 4 he moved with his family to Athens Alabama where he spent most of his childhood growing up out in the country on the Elk River. From a very young age Paxton showed signs of an active imagination and a growing creative ability and spent his early years exploring the woods and making art. At the age of 13, after his father purchased a Salvador Dali print, Paxton became fascinated with Surrealism and how these past artists and their works gave some justification for his own unique imagination. In 1988 Paxton went on to earn an art scholarship to attend Queens University in Charlotte, NC. By the end of his second year his sights became...