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!
