I painted this portrait in the only formal painting class I've ever taken. Dr. Jill Eggers (then at WSU) was my professor and the semester was fall of 1995. Orange lips, eh? How about the Lumberjack plaid that's now back in style? I like two things about this painting: 1)the way I painted the orange fabric draped around the mirror and 2)the fact that I actually got the roundness and fullness of the back of my head. I really saw no good in the painting back in the day; I actually hated it. Today I'm glad I didn't get rid of it.
This one is me, too, but it's strictly from imagination. The back of this painting says "7-1996" which tells me that I, then pregnant, must have been imagining what I thought my dark haired child would look like. The dark haired child turned out to be a redhead. I think it's interesting that I painted us in such romantic, old fashioned dress and hair. There's some cad red in there that with the pose reminds me of Mary Cassat.
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