Several years ago I stumbled across these pictures by artist Jan Dorion Whitney, in an issue of La Vie Claire magazine, and they have been in my inspiration folder ever since.
I just love paintings of simple women doing ordinary things -- made extraordinary via color and pattern.
A couple of years later I stumbled across this book, and fell madly in love with the work of artist W.B.Thompson.
Again, simple almost child-like drawings with vibrant color and pattern.
Since then, I have run across many other things I liked, all with this same feel to it. I wasn't sure what to call this style, but just for the fun of it, I googled "Mexican Folk Art", and these are some of the images that popped up:
All this is what was roiling around in my head when I started playing with that "Muses in Margaritaville" photo in my art journal.
And, down the wormhole I gooooooo.....
Beautiful! Love the story behind the story, the path to self expression, the road to sharing that drink. I remember that trip to SA. Thank you for memorializing it so creatively.
ReplyDeleteI love the story behind the story too, as Deborah said!
ReplyDeleteI think you like drawing people as much as I do!
ReplyDeleteWell, hopefully I will, someday. But for now, faces still scare me to death. I'm trying hard to get past that. For these, since I was just playing around, I cheated and used a photograph to help me sort of trace the outline of their faces. One of these days I will have the confidence to do it freehand!
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