"Hammerin' Hank" Baseball Art Hank Aaron Painting

Here is an interesting story about this baseball painting. I received a phone call from a design firm in Atlanta, Ga .who was working on a project for the Major League Baseball (MLB), Atlanta Braves and was asked if I was interested in creating paintings for the new Atlanta Braves stadium, at the time named, SunTrust Park. Now it is named Truist Park. Of course I accepted. They wanted preliminary drawings, sketches, etc. for a proposal. As part of the proposal I created this painting to give them a possible idea for a group of paintings. Eventually we went in a different direction and I painted 3 large scale paintings for their stadium. Photographs of one of the paintings is on my website. I have kept this painting since then to help show my clients some of the different styles in sports paintings I can do. This particular painting is on unstretched canvas, shipped in a tube and was originally created to hang much like a banner or tapestry. Some clients do stretch and frame them for a more formal look. There are photographs on my website showing how some of the stadiums have formalized the paintings with frames.