Walkie

Apr. 9th, 2018 09:01 pm
pyraxis: j-t as Sen from Spirited Away (j-t)
This is the painting I was working on throughout pregnancy. It was my challenge to stick with only pregnancy-safe pigments - ochres, siennas, titanium white, ultramarine blue, a couple translucent yellows, and (I cheated a little bit; they're scientifically untested for pregnancy) quinacridones. Finally got it finished today.

It's Walkie the herbalist in her stall next door to Gillian's in the Tapolith market.

It's special to me because it's inspired by a photo that Walkie sent to Shashigai and us while he was in the ICU, of her in her garden that she nurtured from tenement weeds. I'm imagining it as two paintings, hanging side by side. This is the one on the right. The one on the left, which doesn't exist yet, would be a literal interpretation of another garden photo. Together they would be called Walkie/Ua'ke, and if there were a description hanging alongside them, it would talk about the things that exist on both sides of the fourth wall. I've never painted them in direct parallel before.

A brown-skinned grandmotherly woman with a halo of greying curly hair sits in a sun-drenched canvas tent, chopping herbs on a table that also holds bundles of flower cuttings and a mortar and pestle. Around her hang terracotta plant pots overflowing with greenery. Dried herbs are hanging from lines suspended from the tent's rafters. The faint silhouette of another tent is visible across cobblestones outside.
Acrylic on stretched canvas, 2017-2018
pyraxis: Jo (Jo)


[Pk: Quickie sketch from tonight]
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