Color Cat Studios: Marilyn Monroe

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Marilyn Monroe - SOLD

Here's the painting I just sold. Because Marilyn Monroe is such a colorful, larger-than-life person, I chose to depict her with some wild color to describe her personality. Here's to you, Marilyn!

My camera colors show the mat as being a HORRIBLE color, but it actually matches the dark indigo of the lady herself and looks really nice in person. Apparently the matting absorbed rather than reflected the light, so, well, there it is!

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Turkish tour

Another look at those natural color-sources. I asked about cochineal, because you couldn't just have that on a shelf, and yes, their deep reds are cochineal. It's a South American insect that is a parasite to the prickly pear. Owners deposit them into their fields, and blow them off and collect them once they're big. Then they crush their fat, bloody bodies for a nice, natural, red dye. I'm so happy to report that the rug we purchased has cochineal in it. I'm also happy to report that it's likely in your lipstick and blush, ladies, and if you drink cherry coke - it's in there, too! :)

'My' Chair

At our theatre the other night we had an orchestra meeting after I taught my sets class. After about a half hour, someone pulled me out of the meeting for a few minutes. When I came back, everyone in the room was laughing and pointing to the nice, uh, black leather chair. I had paint on the back of my shirt, and it permanently smeared all over the leather! The last time I went in the office, I noticed that someone had taped up the sign you see here. One way to lay claim to something! Well, it's not the first time, let's see, there's my driveway with many colors of paint, our carpet with Peter Pan green footprints, my car with yellow paint on the seat, my gloves, half of my clothes. It seems like everyone likes my painted clothes, kind of like already-broken-in-jeans. Maybe I should start a clothing line!

Color Cat Studios

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Marilyn Monroe - SOLD

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