"I don't know Butchie instead"

This is a painting of John from Cincinnati of the star "John". He was a visitor from somewhere else. A very awkward individual. A hero. The name of this painting is taken directly from an exchange between John and his friend Butchie. Butchie did his best to try and fill John in on the common protocol of humans here on earth.
He asked John some simple questions, and always John would say "some things I know, some things I don't". Butchie gets fed up with this, and tells John not to say that anymore, just say "I don't know Butchie. instead". For the rest of the series he answers in this way to questions that he doesn't have an answer to. "I don't know Butchie instead". John had an excellent attitude for someone who didn't know what was going on most of the time, and he had superpowers! A radical character.
I felt like he was a presence that I could handle having around, and wanted to be reminded of. I like the challenge of painting faces. I like making paintings where the people are more realistic than the atmosphere surrounding them. I like pause buttons on television.