Cigar Boxes

Painting on cigar boxes has long been a tradition in fine art. A number of charities hold  auctions of artist's paintings on cigar boxes.

While helping organize my moms move to a new house , I came across quite a number of cigar boxes my dad intended to make into radios, before he passed away.

I started painting on them and really enjoyed to process. I make them much simpler than my paintings. maybe only one image. Playing around with the design of the image is rewarding for me.

I take the labels off the lid of the box only, and gesso them. I'm using acrylic paint and then a high gloss finish. Oils is traditionally the medium that boxes are painted with but I like using the acrylics for this project.