This is not one of the two paintings I had due in my class yesterday. It is actually one I did earlier in the semester, and am just now getting around to photographing!
It is a portrait of my Aunt Minta. She lives next door, and we rent from her. We do a lot of cooking together, and she especially loves to make baked goods. The dress she is wearing was her wedding dress.
This is just a quick little preliminary sketch I did for the second of the two paintings due in class today.
All morning I have worked on putting the finishing touches on two paintings I am working on. Tomorrow we have critique in class, and I have to present both. I am super excited with how these paintings are turning out, and can’t wait to share them with you. Hopefully this weekend there will be good light so I can get some nice photographs.
Along with presenting the two finished paintings, my proposal and sketches are due for my final project. The painting is to be a self portrait based on one of the several themes provided to us. I am choosing to incorporate text into my piece.
The picture I chose is from one of the saddest days of my life. It was 1987 and my brother and sister both had horrible cases of chicken pocks. It was beginning to look like I wasn’t going to catch them. Then the day before my ballet performance as a lobster in Alice in Wonderland I came down with them. I remember parading around my house for weeks in my bright orange leotard and matching tutu. My heart broke when my parents told me I wasn’t going to be able to do the lobster dance.
So thats the story and the picture. I will be incorporating text about lobsters from Alice in Wonderland into the painting. Now I need to go finish up the other two so I can get started on this painting!
Welcome to my new blog, Bed in Summer. I was previously blogging under the name Girl Wanders. I have felt disconnected from that blog for some time now, and a recent site hack only confirmed my desire to change names.
I feel as though I have been an aimless blogger. I blogged about whatever caught my eye that week. So some weeks it looked like a food blog, other weeks an art blog, and others a fashion blog. Too much.
I want this blog to become centered mainly around my art work and creativity. I plan on pulling together posts not only about what I am working on, but also what inspires me along the way.
The name Bed in Summer is the title of my absolute favorite poem as a little girl. It is by R.L. Stevenson from a Child’s Garden of Verses.
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
