I have not painted since December 2021. "Hernia Memory" is my first painting after I recovered from double eye surgery which eliminated my astigmatism but removed my ability to see close up but gifted me with long distance vision. I have to use reading glasses the rest of my artistic days & nights! This painting is the enlargement of a teenee scar on my sister's tummy as she recovered from hernia surgery done in January. The healing scar saturated with sodium nitrate looked like a desolate landscape or seafood! It was a joy to paint it with newly bought watercolor from Blicks during their closing out sale.
And people did not appreciate my painting of my intestinal polyps.
ReplyDeleteA great series of portraits—you haven’t lost your touch!
ReplyDeleteHave to comment on this! I love it as an abstract. Hearing the background story, though, makes me think two things: a) I guess you CAN find beauty in everything, and b) maybe paintings should come with warnings (like movies) for the squeamish.
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