Put Your Best Face Forward with Folk Artist John Sperry

John Sperry is a self taught folk artist from Maysville, Georgia.  Here is his bio from Roots Up Gallery:

Born in 1956, John Sperry is a self-taught artist who first encountered folk art in an Atlanta shop. He felt that the work he saw conveyed such a great amount of feeling through its fun, free-form style that he was inspired to go home and begin painting again for the first time since his childhood. These paintings of his almost immediately attracted an audience and three months after he started painting, he quit his corporate job to pursue painting full-time.
Sperry's work is done primarily with acrylic on old roofing tin and his images are colorful and whimsical depictions of the rural south, musicians, animals, flowers, and other flights of fancy. Sperry currently lives in a turn-of-the-century farmhouse in rural Georgia with his wife where they can create and appreciate a simpler way of life.

John and his wife, Danette, have a website you can see (click here) their work.  John sells folk art and his wife sells primitive tables. 

Here is a photo of John and his many "Faces".

Directions:

I presented what little information that I had on John Sperry.

I told the kids they would be doing faces with oil pastels.

The kids were set free.

Have a look and see! 👀

I first ran across John Sperry at NAEA 2017 in New York City.  I could not believe there was an artist from Georgia that I did not know!  I was glad to learn about John Sperry from The Fabulous Fun Folk Art Crew in a workshop at the convention.  Thanks to Ginger Pacer, Cassie Stephens, Jennifer Alvarado, and Laura Lohmann for a great workshop.  For a detailed blog about the workshop session, click HERE.

I do not know if these faces are funny, but here is the B-Side of "Snow" from The Red Hot Chili Peppers. 💗💖💚💛💝💓💜 ~"Funny Face"

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