I wanted to do another face, but this time not anyone I would necessarily need to recognize. Nearby was a stack of old photos that Dave brought home from his mother's house. He kept the ones that he wanted but he didn't know what to do with the rest. I kept them as "ephemera" - thinking they'd come in handy for something. One of those photos was a class picture, looks like it's from the teens or twenties....so it wasn't Bev's class picture. I'm thinking it might have been her mother's class picture. The only thing I know is that it is Winter Street School in Hagerstown, MD. Most of the little girls have giant hair-bows....such an odd fashion, since they are so over-sized. So I picked one of those cuties and painted her. It hardly looks like her, yet it was very satisfying to paint! The best part was that her ears were covered with hair. Hair is way-easier to paint than ears!
There was a bunch of paint left-over. My energies were nearly gone for the day, but not entirely. I grabbed another canvas and my palette knife - which I have never really used. In my oil class at the Delaplaine, one of the other students told me he had recently taken an oil painting class where the instructor refused to let them use paintbrushes. Everything had to be painted with a knife. He said it was a great learning experience. So ever since, I've had it in the back of my mind that I would tackle an entire painting with just a knife....and here it is! I knew I couldn't attempt anything that needed to look like something, so I kept it abstract. Though if you look at it just right, you can see a landscape.
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