I worked my way through school painting circus sideshow banners and continued for about a dozen years. This is the Palace Illusion, ca. 1980, consisting of 16-7'x8' banners and a 9'x17' entrance banner.

The show, run by Tim Deremer, still tours. 

The Human Blockhead was always one of my favorites to paint.

The banners hung in galleries as well as on the midway.