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Commissioned Scottish Art:
Caber Tosser

by D. Bruce Bennett

Kansas City Highland Games Caber Tosser

This painting is the third painting commissioned by the Kansas City Games committee. But wait; it’s not quite as simple as it sounds.

The Kansas City Games committee auctioned off this painting (which didn’t yet exist) in February 2007 – before its 2007 games. The winner of the silent auction won the right to choose the subject matter of a painting that would become the primary image used in all the 2008 Kansas City Highland Games advertising.

By June of 2007, the client/auction winner had decided on a caber thrower, wearing his MacDonald tartan. By July, the client had seen two pencil sketch JPGs and chosen his favorite – the anonymous version that you see here.

After receiving a swatch of the client’s MacDonald tartan and verifying other details with the client, Bruce submitted the first color JPG proof mid-September 2007. By the first of October 2007 – after requesting slight color revisions – the client had signed off on the painting.

By working this far out, the games committee gave themselves ample time to work up all the advertising materials for the 2008 games, held June 13-15, 2008.

If you’re active on your local games committee and are tired of the same old, clip-art look for your games advertising, maybe you should have a chat with the Kansas City Games crew. They appear to have a good thing going!

Kansas City Highland Games Caber Tosser
Picture of Scotland
Medium: acrylic on stretched canvas
Image Dimensions: 18" w. x 20" h.

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