Sunday, September 20, 2015

September 20, 2015


September 20, 2015

Choosing the songs was difficult, but some chose me.  I listen to Sirius 60s channel in my studio.  It seemed that every time I turned on the radio, I heard ‘Both Sides Now’ by Judy Collins.  This is a song that I liked, but did not think about illustrating.  But I heard it again and again, like a message that I could not ignore.  So I decided to try.  I put lots of clouds in the painting, with a lot of potential interpretations.  But I fudged on the castle.  I had never seen a castle in the sky, so I did a cloud with some little spiky points sort of like turrets.  And I kept looking at clouds.  Every time I went out I looked at clouds.  We had some spectacular clouds—clouds that, if I had painted them, you would say, “I never saw a cloud like that.”  But I kept asking to see a castle.  I finished the painting, but wasn’t happy with the “ice cream castle in the air.”  One night, on the way to see West Side Story at the Muni, I saw it!  It was a real castle with 3 flat topped turrets just floating in the air.  I quickly sketched it and added it to the painting the next day.  So when you come to the show and see Both Sides Now, you will see the castle that I saw in the clouds that night.  Again, the show opening is October 17 (5:30 – 7:30) at the Prairie Art Alliance Gallery at the Hoogland and it runs until December 3.  Hope to see you there.

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