Flaming Ginger Colored Beardo with a Pompadour, 11x14 inches oil on canvas panel by Kenney Mencher

ORIGINAL WORK NOT A REPRODUCTION

Free shipping anywhere in the world.

Shipping takes 3-4 weeks.

There's a real fascination for many of my friends with red heads or "gingers." It's kind of a recent phenomena, This increase in redheaded males may have been boosted by the viral Red Hot 100, an artbook and campaign that portrays redheaded men as strong, proud, sexy, and confident individuals. Archie’s sexual revival in Riverdale and the admiration for Prince Harry may have also contributed to the redhead awakening.

As a means of attracting attention, dying one’s hair red is one of the most time-honored in existence, and we humans are hard-wired to respond. There’s an intriguing theory that red might have been the first color early primates learned to recognize, in order to pick out ripe fruits from unripe. It’s the color of blood and the color of fire—are there two elements of more primal significance than those?

Red pulls the eye. In 2014 the media company Upstream Analysis released a fascinating piece of research revealing that while red hair in the global population hovers at a scarce and thus noteworthy 2 percent, redheads in film and TV exist in numbers far beyond that, with almost a third of all characters depicted as my own genetic ginger kin. Upstream Analysis suggests that red hair sets off our reward-seeking instinct. Basically, we are such primates still that if we see something unusual, we have to engage with it. In other words, we buy into red hair.

I'm a big fan of portrait painting in the vein of John Singer Sargent and Malcom Liepke. Often I find pictures of characters on the web and make quick alla prima portraits of people with cool or interesting faces.

("Alla Prima" Also known as ‘direct painting’, ‘au premier coup’ or occasionally mistakenly as ‘wet-on-wet’, alla prima is a one-layer painting technique in which the painting (usually painted from life) is completed in one sitting or while the paint is still wet.)

I particularly like to paint men and men with facial hair: I like "beardos."

Warning these are the only sites authorized to sell my art:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/kmencher

https://www.kenney-mencher.net/

http://www.kenney-mencher.com/

http://www.kenneymencher.com/

The size is a standard US frame size and can be framed inexpensively.

(Buy framing kits on the US version of Etsy, Amazon or go to DickBlick. (.com's)