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| "Here Comes the Sun" (Acrylic on vellum mounted permanently to a 5 x 5 handcut wooden board) |
Today's entry I admit finds me cheating ever so slightly. It was a rushy-rush kind of day on my end (I know -- excuses, excuses), including teaching, multiple errands, a soccer game, dinner out, and, last but not least, visiting with out-of-state relatives. Since I do wish to sleep tonight (and desperately!) I'm using as my Face of the Day a project I actually completed late LAST month, but hadn't managed to get around to blogging about. Yet.
This little painting is currently hanging in a local gallery exhibit (along with its companion piece, which I will save blogging about for another mega-busy day). The exhibit is called the "5 x 5 Show', with the theme of the show being 'What You Love" -- a very fun concept for an art exhibit. For me, when I was preparing to paint my own two 5"x 5" show entries, and contemplating all the many and varied things that I love and might want to paint about, we were experiencing in these parts a particularly gorgeous warm and sunny spring day after a lengthy patch of gloomy chill. I felt so grateful for the sun at that moment that I was more than happy to paint up a little ode to it. In fact anthropomorphic celestial beings have always been long-time favourite subjects of mine -- smiling happy Suns, Moons and Stars just somehow never fail to cheer me up.....