Posted by Maggie 
Category: Last weekend I joined the California Art Club for a paint-out honoring Wagner’s Ring Cycle, which will be performed by the L.A. Opera next spring. This is a quick study in oil. The girls were supposed to be Freia and Fricka. Nice names! They wore these crazy silver glitter wigs, which ended up looking more like grey hair, or shawls. I might develop one of these figures into a bigger painting.
October 25th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Between the two, there seems to be much ‘more’ to the one on the right, something about her expression and posture that make me wonder what she is thinking, even makes me concerned for the way she might feel. (adds to her beauty and makes her more appealing)
The one in the back seems more at ease and i don’t give her much thought. But i guess it is good that the one in front isn’t entirely alone and the other girl is back there for moral support if she needs it —- i might feel even more concern for her, maybe too much if she were alone….
Or would that be exactly what an artist would want to do to the viewer?
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Yes, i think if she was alone in a painting i might stop and look, for some time, and worry about her.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
That’s interesting, I suppose the girl in the foreground does look a bit worried. Maybe she’s expressing what I felt that day: I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to finish something worthwhile in the short amount of time we had. There were dozens of artists packed in a small space, and we kept tripping over each other. And Wagner opera music was blasting just behind my head!
Thanks, I always enjoy hearing (reading) what people think when they see a painting.
Maggie
November 13th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Hi Magz,
it isn’t just that she looks worried, i don’t think worried encapsulates her. It is more of a deep contemplation or commiseration, or perhaps even the complete opposite — Shakti/Kundalini, the presence of a ‘loving sadness’, as though the gaze or stare from her eyes were not focused on anything in particular here in the world, her spirit momentarily in silent awareness.
I don’t really know how to describe it fully with words. Now that I think about it, I guess i should have tried to come up with a better word than ‘worry’.
Anyway, I think you are a gifted artist and an exceptional specimen to represent the human race.(and yer pretty too)
Dernit! I bet if ya added wings here and there you could give Michael Angelo a run-for-his-money paintin’ church ceilings.
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wake.
November 14th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Sorry – Michelangelo!
Please forgive me for messing up the name.
(Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)