Imperfect Father - Original Painting 2023 6″ × 18

6″ × 18

we might not have strawberries for shortcakes or avocados for tacos

Shabazz Larkin made his picture book illustration debut with Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

deserves all the love it can get

The circle on his face symbolizes the womb

Imperfect Father - Original Painting 2023 6″ × 18Imperfect Father is a 48 60 inch acrylic painting by Nashville artist Shabazz Larkin. Its a big, unapologetic portrait about fatherhood the messy, imperfect, human kind. The kind where love and failure sit in the same chair. Larkin distorts the figure slightly, pushing the image away from polite portraiture and toward something more honest: the emotional architecture of being a father, of trying, of holding a family together even when you know youre