New painting in the shop! “Girl with Flower Crown”, based on the fabulously inspirational Czech film “Daisies” from 1966. I blogged about it back here–the moment I saw that film, I knew I needed to paint it. Sort of the way I felt with I watched Bette Davis with an eyepatch in “The Anniversary”–instant inspiration!

For this painting I used Prismacolor colored pencils and acrylic paint on Bristol paper, mounted on wood. I painted the “frame” with metallic paint and added butterflies and flowers to tie in with the “Daisies” film, and as a final touch added the copper glitter. The copper glitter is actually the same bottle that I used for the Louise Brooks painting some 10 years ago. I keep my glitter for as long as possible! It’s not like it goes bad.

I’m really happy with the way this one turned out, and it was fun to work on, which is important. Yesterday we took down the paintings in a couple rooms of the house and put up different ones–very helpful. My brain has to change it up every so often.

For now “Girl with Flower Crown” is in the living room, between the silhouettes I painted of Maggie and Bear Cub. I like to put the latest painting right above the t.v. so I can stare at it every time I’m on the couch.

So today’s the first day of fall, eh? Well, we had a good run, summer. Yesterday was supposed to be rainy but somehow defied the forecasts and was sunny and gorgeous all day long. We took the girls to a new dog park and re-arranged art and at some point I piled on purple eyeshadow and took a slew of self-portraits and all in all, it was a very nice end to the extra-sunny summer of 2013. Oh yeah, and Bear Cub has a boyfriend now! More about that later.