Tom Everhart
In 1980, Tom Everhart was introduced to cartoonist Charles M. Schulz at Schulz’s studios in Santa Rosa, California. A few weeks prior to their meeting, Everhart, having absolutely no education in cartooning, found himself involved in a freelance project that required him to draw and present Peanuts renderings to Schulz’s studios. Preparing as he would the drawings and studies for his large-scale skeleton / nature related paintings; he blew up some of the cartoonist’s strips on a twenty-five foot wall in his studio which eliminated the perimeter lines of the cartoon box, leaving only the marks of the cartoonist. Schulz’s painterly pen stroke, now larger than life, translated into painterly brush strokes and was now a language that overwhelmingly connected to Everhart’s own form of expression and communication. Completely impressed with Schulz’s line, he was able to reproduce the line art almost exactly, which in turn impressed Schulz at their meeting. It was directly at this time that Everhart confirmed his obsession with Schulz’s line art style and their ongoing relationship of friendship and education of his line style.
- Coup D’etat 20″ x 41″
- Sleep Over Homies Morning 31″ x 21″
- Sleep Over Homies Noon 31″ x 21″
- Sleep Over Homies Evening 31″ x 21″
- Sleep Over Homies Night 31″ x 21″
- Make It Stop 13″ x 39 1/2″
- Tahitian Hipster I 10″ x 8″
- Tahitan Hipster V 10″ x 8″