Painted Brick

If you work in a paint store, as I did many many moons ago, you are very often called upon to mix custom paint colors. Part of this process is computerized, and part of it requires patience, skill, and a keen eye. Tints are added to bases, shaken up in a machine, and the resulting color is tested for accuracy by applying a coat of paint to a pre-primed glass slide. A heat gun is used to dry the paint quickly - paint dries to a noticeably different shade than it is when wet. We would use a brick to support the glass slides under the heat gun. During down time (never buffoonery(inside joke)), we would sometimes paint the brick. Near the end of my tenure at this job, I painted the silly scene you see above on the brick. I decided to keep the brick to remember my time at the paint store. I snagged a replacement brick from a construction site down the road. Got yelled at by a burly construction worker and everything.

Inspired by my good friend Dave's photo Brickman, which, as it turns out, is of the very brick that I snagged from that construction site so long ago.