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April on the Front Porch, acrylic on canvas, 30x24 |
Hallelujah--I think April is 98 percent finished. I originally blogged about her on
May 23 (I should have listened to that voice that was saying "larger.") After she grew, I felt she needed a throne rather than a metal outdoor chair so I had to visit the thrift shop and look at chairs--all mine are modern. (Here in southern VA we don't really have indoor furniture on our front porches, but I did have a toilet sitting in the front yard for a while.) I wanted an old Coke bottle as a vase but mine's gone missing; at midnight, I substituted a piece of van Briggle pottery--that meant getting the ladder and retrieving the vase from a high shelf. My paintings sometimes become projects and I work through the night.
I like that April's arms are wing-like and her legs resemble the Colonel's drumsticks and thighs.
When I signed this I was listening to KD Lang and the Reclines; KD was singing "Big Boned Woman." I imagine April dancing at the Legion Hall.
This is not my first work with a woman and rooster; there was a sculpture 20 years ago--Mystic Woman aka Chick with a Chick (photo below). She was sold to a sculptor from West Virginia.
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terra cotta and white clay, 24" h |