Recent personal piece to accompany an episode of the “News from Lake Wobegon” by Garrison Keillor. This was from the episode on March 28, 2009, in which the most beautiful girl at the high school receives too much attention from boys after deciding to go to prom alone.
Give it a listen sometime on iTunes. Mr. Keillor is pretty much a radio genius, and every week he shares funny or thoughtful or bizarre stories about a fictional town whose inhabitants he knows so intimately that their tales somehow have impeccable continuity over many years. What’s probably most amazing is that his stories are, for the most part, spontaneously generated.
A quick and (very) little painting. There is gold detailing that can’t be seen in the scan, but I rather like how it looks in the strange owl eyes.
What’s a girl to do to jazz up a regular old self-portrait? Get her dad’s old aviator glasses, that’s what.
I’m trying to be a bit looser in my paint technique, and with this piece I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere with the looseness. Also used a limited palette discovered while copying a Sargent watercolor – it’s so refreshing to use six colors instead of 20+!
