Dead Flowers

Thinking about the Rolling Stones' song, "Dead Flowers."

I mean, I drew this, and about 7/8's of the way through, as I added the sparse flowers, I thought, "Dead Flowers."

This is one of those times that the drawing came first and at the last moment merged with an idea.  I started this out last night by smearing coffee all over the page.  I don't know what anyone thinks about it, but it's one of my very favorites.  I like the sparseness of line drawings.

Is the woman old?  Is she young, but her facade is breaking?  Is she dying?  Is she a heroine addict?  Maybe she's on the flip side--breaking though her shell and coming through.  There's some sort of breakage going on--I feel that.

oil, charcoal, conté, coffee, paper

Gallery Shows

My poor blog.  I have been quite busy this last month, and I haven't been posting much. Well, here's a super long one, but just with pictures...no heavy reading here. I'll try to play catch-up in a backwards way.  First up, I had a gallery opening on Friday, 11/7 and here are the pics to it.  I'm posting everything in itty, bitty pictures, but if you click on them, they'll be nice and big. (-;  I also conducted a little art project that night, forcing everyone to fill out a "shoe form" and taking snaps of their shoes instead of their faces.  Well...I didn't force them;  I mean it wasn't like I held a shoehorn to their head or anything...in fact I was more like this helpful lass on the lower-right hand side of my painting, "Trying to Get the Other Boot On" shown below:  Just a gentle "offer" of a shoe horn. What the heckle and jekyll am I talking about? Anyway, I'm going to go create a little something from all my shoes attendants at a later time. (-;

Here's a good shoe from one of my attendees (Connie)!

See that cute little shoe horn lady?  Only trying to help... (-;

I have always loved shoes--here's a painting from several years back.

Here was my sample form.  

Initially I had "Fred F." written down. Kman didn't know who I was talking about.  I said what!?  How can you not know?  "Fruity Pebbles," the favorite food, "Rockin' Robin"/the Rolling "Stones" favorite music?!  Someone else read it and didn't get it either, so I had to go back through all my forms and add "Flintstone" so there was no question about it.  I had thought it was a little clever. (-;

 

 

Highest stiletto ever!

Here's me!

Here's some pics of the show (and actual faces!)