And now for something completely different, as Monty Python used to say. When I was painting around the train tracks during a sun set last month, I noticed some very odd looking glasses. In fact, if you go back and check the third painting in the blog called Tracks and Switcher, you will see these odd glasses sitting next to the train tracks. I bet you didn't notice them the first time you saw that blog. For posterity, I made a painting of the odd glasses and at first did not think much more about it. Certainly, the glasses were not odd enough to belong in my Curio Folio, a collection of oddities that no person has ever seen before. Perhaps these glasses had been melted in the sun, or run over by the train, or part of some art installation. Yet, they had a manufactured look to them, nothing was bent or warped or in any way damaged, in fact, these glasses were custom made for someone, or something. There was an air of familiarity about the shape of these odd glasses, like a vague memory or a sense of d
Then it dawned on me, in a flash of inspiration I knew who lost these glasses.... scroll down
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In a rush of excitement I carefully painted the outline of the train Gremlin, which is a creature that I thought I saw on the train, you can click the link above to see the painting. As you can see here, the odd glasses are a perfect fit for the train gremlin, its one eye dangling down is covered by the lower lens, and the bent arms of the glasses fit its pointy ears perfectly. It must have lost them while crawling around on the train. And now the screwdriver that I saw the train gremlin carrying makes sense. I thought it was trying to sabotage the train, because that is what gremlins do, but it was just trying to tighten the screw on its glasses before they must have tumbled to the ground in ville st Henri. Mystery solved, and another fine addition to the Curio Folio:
Curio Folio: Odd Glasses, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, August 2025
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