"Heart of the City" 12 1/2" x 91/2" Watercolor on cotton rag paper $125
Karin Jurick has an interesting blog called Different Stokes for Different Folks, where she regularly posts a photo and challenges artists to do a painting from it. It's very fun and informative to look through the different interpretations. I have been meaning to do this for some time and finally got on board with her cityscape photo. I did the whole thing without the figures, but it didn't feel like me until I thought of the cleaners washing a heart on to the central wall in the composition. I do like to have a little message in my paintings, as you all know.
When I went to post the painting on DSFDF today I found David Larson Evans' submission with wall cleaners washing a peace symbol on the same wall. Yikes!! I know I did not see that painting earlier but it will look like I copied his idea. I almost didn't post mine because of this and then decided it was good if lots of us are thinking about peace and love - it's a universal yearning.
P.S. Dennis didn't see the heart. Did you? or did the title help you see it.
When I went to post the painting on DSFDF today I found David Larson Evans' submission with wall cleaners washing a peace symbol on the same wall. Yikes!! I know I did not see that painting earlier but it will look like I copied his idea. I almost didn't post mine because of this and then decided it was good if lots of us are thinking about peace and love - it's a universal yearning.
P.S. Dennis didn't see the heart. Did you? or did the title help you see it.
