Let’s Do Lunch

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You’ll spot Badger before you see Bo. Seated beside a mint-green 1967 Land Rover with a roll-up canopy and a bright yellow license plate that reads “BADGR67,” he’s hard to miss when he’s parked on 14th Avenue during lunch hour. Bo Prillaman is slight and fair with a tiny watercolor set and two black sketchbooks tucked into his pockets, and Badger literally towers over him – he offers a formidable base for the canopy, the artist’s shade. The two are an unlikely but effective pair. Badger draws you in, and Bo, well, draws. 

In the time it takes you to eat your sandwich, Bo plants his ratty aluminum chair – complete with a built-on wooden table for his supplies – next to Badger, and speed-sketches and paints a replica of the old movie theatre. He uses his lunch hour to commemorate the places, past and present, that define Vero Beach. 

“I don’t consider myself a professional artist at all; this is kind of a hobby,” says Bo when I meet him in his 1926 Mediterranean revival in Vero Beach. An architect by trade, Bo restored the house, featured in our June 2015 issue, and nearly every wall is decorated with Vero Beach-related artwork. For the past three years, since moving here part-time, Bo has created his local “lunch paintings.” 

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