Preston Craig - Gangsta Teddy

Medium: Mixed Media

Dimensions: (height, width of artwork): 28x22

A light blue, cloudless sky occupies the top portion of the painting. On the right side of the painting, the viewer is viewing a city street scene. In the lowest portion of the painting, a sidewalk sprinkled with the day’s detritus, butts up against a group of buildings (2 and 3 stories tall) and disappears into the distance. The closest building to the viewer is covered in a colorful graffiti mural, which dominates most of the left side of the painting. In the extreme foreground, a large, brown teddy bear, which appears to be about 6’ tall, wears a white t-shirt, a black hoody, blue jeans and black sneakers. It glances back over its right shoulder at a group of mixed ethnic youth gathered in the distant background, as it slowly pulls a pistol from its waistband. To the right side of the painting is a No Parking street sign located in the foreground and behind that a row of telephone poles, which disappear into the distance. There are two autos parked next to the curb and a group of trees occupies the right portion of the background.

The paint is applied in thin layers and the painting style is very illustrative but very realistic.