Beatles fan "honoured" after Sir Paul McCartney picks his painting for fan art feature
A painting of Sir Paul McCartney by a Liverpool Beatles fan was given the thumbs up by the music legend himself.
Sir Paul, pictured below, shared the colourful piece by talented Kevin Allen on his social media pages as part of his regular “Friday fan art” feature.
The image – which uses bold shades of purple, yellow, blue and pink to make up the music legend’s face – has so far been liked a staggering 36,000 times on Instagram and 14,000 times on Facebook.
Fans have heaped praise on Kevin’s work, with one calling it “a fantastic psychedelic painting” and another hailing his “fantastic imagination”. Kevin’s sister Maria Dillon, 56, from Aigburth, submitted the photo on Twitter as a surprise – and said she was delighted Sir Paul had picked it out of the thousands submitted every week.
She told the ECHO: “Kevin has always drawn and he does all kinds of different drawings. I was looking at his pictures on my phone and I thought it was really amazing. “I said to my daughter, ‘Send that to Paul McCartney’ but she said ‘Mum he won’t even see it’. “I went ‘Well he might’, so she tweeted it and tagged my brother in.”
Kevin, 50, from Toxteth, said he was delighted by the recognition – and now plans to organise an exhibition of his work next year. He said: “I didn’t know anything about it but my sister put it on her Twitter. Apparently fans send a lot of pictures to Sir Paul every day and he just picks one out every week. “I was overwhelmed by it. I’m a big fan of Paul McCartney and it feels like an honour, especially as I’m a Scouser.”
By: Lorna Hughes
Source: The Livepool Echo
