The sunflower and veggie photos are exhausted. I was hunting for subjects for the next painting by looking through my photographs of this and that. Since I’m not visiting Greece again this summer I wandered to my pictures of our past trips.
It wasn’t such a good idea.
None of the scenes appealed to me as paintings. The photos I took of my view either had my family or other people in them, or they just work as a photograph.
But then I got involved looking at our family, where we were, what we were doing, family we were visiting with, the youth of my sons and their happy faces, their silliness, and who is gone since then.
Many memories live in the pages of those photo albums and rather than finding inspiration I found a sort of melancholy.
A little book of travel info peeked out of my bookshelf and I found a small photo of a Greek island I’d never been to before. The colors and shapes were pleasing so I went ahead and sketched that scene. It felt good to lose myself in the activity and to shake off the downer.
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| Kalymnos ©2012 Dora Sislian Themelis 12×9 Watercolor, Arches 140lb cold press paper |
Done in twenty minutes start to finish, it’s a bright, colorful scene with none of the memories.
I’m sorry to hear about the sad memories. Your painting is lovely though! i really like those shades of blues and reds together. xoxox
Thanks Jenny! The memories are happy, it’s just the fact that time passes, children grow up, circumstances change, and you dont realize it until you look back through pictures.