| The
original assignment was to paint a still life in black and
white, a crime if there ever was one when it comes to paint.
A general rule of thumb, at least as far as I'm concerned,
is that paint was made for using color; drawings, in which
different colored pigments don't mix so well, are best suited
for black and white. Just a personal preference. A preference
validated when I decided to overlay the original assignment
with color, which proved much more fruitful.
Even
when I was done, I still wasn't crazy about it, so I gave
it to my roommate as a college graduation present. But then
my stepmother told me she liked it, which put me in a bit
of a pickle. My paintings are like my children -- even the
unsightly ones can't be given up for adoption easily. I
decided to "forget" to remind my roommate to take
"Plant in doorway," still hanging on the wall
alongside some of my other works, with her when it was time
to move out. To make a long story short, it currently hangs
in my stepmom's house. |
