"Unreliable Map II" is the third (and final) egg I painted for the Open Fields School's Great Goose Egg Auction (Thetford, Vermont). Check out the egg-cellent selection of artists' creations. Every year they are more amazing! The auction takes place Friday, May 11 -- and you don't have to be there! You can bid online or on the phone!
This painting is a companion to one of the first eggs I painted, back in 2004. It was pretty popular at the auction -- winning bidder was Trina Schart Hyman (how cool is THAT?) -- so I thought I'd paint a second in the series, tra la, to see if people might like to see another one. Both eggs were created using watercolor, acrylic paint, and archival inks (black and brown). It's really fun to paint on the smooth, slightly chalky surface of an egg. The only challenge is that they are a bit hard to grip, and well, you know, delicate in that eggy sort of way. In fact, just yesterday I actually knocked my Unreliable Map "practice egg" (a thinner-skinned chicken egg) onto the floor. Shards resulted. I really almost cried. That lil' chicken egg has been with me for eight years!
Shards.
And now some pix of "Unreliable Map II" -- as work-in-progress and then views of the finished egg.
This painting is a companion to one of the first eggs I painted, back in 2004. It was pretty popular at the auction -- winning bidder was Trina Schart Hyman (how cool is THAT?) -- so I thought I'd paint a second in the series, tra la, to see if people might like to see another one. Both eggs were created using watercolor, acrylic paint, and archival inks (black and brown). It's really fun to paint on the smooth, slightly chalky surface of an egg. The only challenge is that they are a bit hard to grip, and well, you know, delicate in that eggy sort of way. In fact, just yesterday I actually knocked my Unreliable Map "practice egg" (a thinner-skinned chicken egg) onto the floor. Shards resulted. I really almost cried. That lil' chicken egg has been with me for eight years!
Shards.
Here's a view of "Unreliable Map I" from 2004.
And now some pix of "Unreliable Map II" -- as work-in-progress and then views of the finished egg.
Just getting started with color.
And now the finished "sides."
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