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Artist Hayden Richard captured Eagles Super Bowl LIX triumph done his creation
With the Eagles' location opener against the Dallas Cowboys conscionable days away, 1 section creator is flying precocious — preserving the team's iconic presumption done a soaring symbol: the bald eagle.
Hayden Richard, a Chester-based painter, began a bold portion agelong earlier the Eagles lifted the Lombardi Trophy — envisioning a monolithic bald eagle bringing the title home.
"This large bald eagle is coming home," Richard said, spreading his arms similar wings. "Before the Eagles won the Super Bowl, I started coating this."
There are nary players, nary stadium, nary fans successful the framework — conscionable strength, pride, and state embodied successful the vertebrate itself.
Richard layered the inheritance with his fingers, past shifted to stippling — a meticulous method utilizing tiny dots of overgarment to physique texture and depth.
"Think of each those leaves, 1 by 1 — whoosh," helium laughed, slipping into a enactment of song: "Don't interest astir a thing… each small happening gonna beryllium alright."
His "All States" bid celebrates American landscapes — from towering redwoods to protective mama bears — a emotion missive to the country's beauty.
After losing his occupation arsenic a cook erstwhile Crozer Medical closed, Richard returned to his archetypal love: art.
"I felt connected with the Creator… and creation is similar creation," helium said.
He's besides the writer of The True Awakening of the Mind, a publication that mirrors the spiritual artistry he's carried since childhood. Richard started drafting astatine property 7 successful his autochthonal Trinidad, sketching successful the world with coconut branches. Today, his pieces bent connected authoritative walls backmost home.
Closest to his bosom is simply a assemblage of enactment helium calls the Colorless Collection.
"There's nary achromatic and white," Richard said. "We're 1 quality family."
He describes the bid arsenic a mode to unite radical — beyond tegument tones and squad colors. "The 1 colour we each stock is red," helium said, "The humor that connects us."
And erstwhile it comes to Philly, there's different transportation adjacent to home: Bird Nation.
Richard is holding the bald eagle coating for what helium calls "Eagles royalty."
"I'm hoping the proprietor of the Eagles — and Mr. Hurts and the remainder of the squad — volition interaction maine and bargain the paintings," helium said, with a laughter that lingers successful the studio.
To acquisition an original, interaction Hayden Richard astatine 215-954-2679 oregon email artalivestudio12@gmail.com
Wakisha Bailey joined CBS News Philadelphia arsenic a newsman successful July 2021.
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