Re-Paints, Artist Proofs & Paint Your Owns

The Fantazar below was painted by Chris Hughes in 1999. I'm guessing that this is an Artist touring piece from a U.S. tour. If so, this is a one in about twenty four pieces nation wide. Holland Craft Studio sent original whites of Fantazar to retailers that participated in the artist tour. There was a south tour (Chris Hughes) and a north tour (Anne-Marie Richards).

The piece is now owned by collector Paul (Boz) Bodsworth

On a personal note, no matter how much I like this piece I would like to see this 3rd edition Fantazar painted in any colour other than blue! I'm sure he would look nice in other colours! it seem that the artists thought they were onto a good thing with blue and so never tried anything different! out of the six artist proofs I have on this site five of them are variants of the blue/purple/grey scheme