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Jake McCord, on his porch
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Jake McCord, on his porch
JAKE T. McCORD
Lives Thomson, Georgia
| Jake McCord is a man of few words. Most questions he answers with a "Yep" in his deep Southern drawl. He nails his paintings to the front of his house which serves as his "art gallery". | ||||||
| Jake says his art career began as a result of buying a used car. He didn't get a key to the trunk with the car, and it took him weeks of working at the lock with a screwdriver to get it open. In the trunk, he found a board on which someone had attempted a painting.
Jake knew he could do better, so he took the board out and painted his own picture over it. The rest is history. |
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My favorites are his brightly colored paintings of animals. He paints his own versions of advertisements (Marlboro and Coca Cola seem to be favorites), and when I visited, he had done a series of yellow people, probably heavily influenced by one of Jake's favorite tv programs, "The Simpsons".
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