Tuesday, April 23, 2013

You First!

"You First!", 9x12", oil on canvas panel, ©©2013 Cindy Greene

I watched these children a few weeks ago, when I was painting at Laguna Beach. It was a gorgeous day and obviously spring break for some families. The water was cold of course, but that didn't deter them, and they eventually did get wet. I snapped some photos of them and I've been thinking about painting them ever since.

The emotional tug for me here is that these two remind me of my brother Michael and me. When we were very young, our parents would load us in the car in the pre-dawn hours and drive across the desert to the beach. We would have a wonderful time for a few hours, and then would spend a few miserable days coping with the inevitable sunburn. The smell of Coppertone is forever ingrained in my mind — I've never been able to use it; it just reminds me of being sunburned. 

I'm finding that I'm pulled to painting certain subjects, and then I realize later what the tug was about. Do you ever have that happen?


4 comments:

  1. Nice job cindy! And I love the story that you also paint with your words!

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    1. Thank you Debbie! Funny how things come back to you after so many years. This was fun to paint.

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  2. This must have been fun to paint, Cindy. I enjoyed your story... and what a great title!

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    1. Thank you, Linda. The title came to me before the painting! I'm loving your marsh paintings.

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