It would happen that Tony had to paint. Many have noticed that. He would get agitated and nervous and only painting or playing the guitar would help. In those instances he used anything to work on: heavy cotton, boards, napkins. I wonder how many of the napkins he gave away are still around. It would suffice that somebody noticed him working and watched him work for him to give them the piece he was working on. He has regretted giving away a few extra nice pieces that didn't get the respect they deserved. An example? Tony carefully hands over a beautiful nude, rather large and the guy just folds it and crumples it in his coat pocket. He later tells us he hung the drawing in his bedroom but that his wife felt intimidated by it and destroyed it... The Cabaret is on cotton primed with a green flat paint and nailed to some fence boards picked up in the desert, probably done in 1994.
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