Showing posts with label Odd Sunny Saturday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Odd Sunny Saturday. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Optimism in Lockdown

Spring Forward, 30 x 20 cm, egg tempera on panel, 
Figgy wants to watch optimistic films.  Our box sets tend to be dark. I remember after 9/11 I couldn't watch anything mean or scary. In the face of a pandemic it turns out my first instinct is to paint a harmonious world. 
The Man I Met in the Kerio Valley, egg tempera on panel, 16 x 24 cm.
One good thing about lockdown is people can't get away, so Patrick sat for me.  I had been wanting to paint him in that hat for months.

Odd Sunny Saturday, egg tempera on panel, 30 x 20 cm.

Certainly The Wild Cherry, pastel on book page, Nature Rambles,
And today I began filling a new sketchbook: Nature Rambles. Sketching in lockdown should help me to see the special views around me again.  The cherry tree is in full bloom, so full of hope.