Hello and Happy New Year!
I woke up on New Years Day and decided that I would spend most of the day painting and drawing, totally guilt free, not worrying about all the Christmas messiness that surrounded me. I thought this would be the perfect way to spend the first day of the year, doing what I love and also knowing that this was what I wanted for the rest of the year too.
And what a productive little day I had. I need to do this more often. I tend to paint a little bit here and there, whenever I can sneak it in, never quite getting into the flow. So maybe my New Year's Resolution needs to be to commit to one day a week of nothing but painting and drawing. A day where I can work without worrying about vacuuming or dirty bathrooms or laundry. I think it might be a fun resolution to try and work on.
I've been thinking about taking Misty Mawn's "Face to Face" with Mixed Media Art: A study of portraits and beyond and I think that is how this painting came about. This piece started with my usual coffee stained background and then I glued tea bags over the top of it and it created a wonderful brown background with subtle tones and variations. Her face was created with light colored tea bags, charcoal and acrylics. Her hair from painted coffee filters. Her dress is part coffee filters, tissue paper, gesso and charcoal.
Fischer my son looked at her with a wrinkled up nose and said "she looks like she is from another country" and I think he is right. My niece left for Spain the day after Christmas to study for a semester, perhaps there was a Spanish influence?
I'm imagining her partner with a big black mustache.
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