Our House Update #3

The reason they call art work, art work is because it's truly Work.  Most of it is work that I love but the step I'm working on now, transferring the images to the paper surface, is tedious and boring.  I have about half the images transferred and yawn, it's break time.  This step is also hard because I'm excited to paint and it's hard to wait.  I'm using a pencil carbon to copy the images and it doesn't show well on a painted surface which is taking more time.  This is an old fashioned way to work, normally on simple compositions such as still life, I draw the image on my paint surface using paint while focusing on the subject matter.  This project is to complicated with many variables so I'm using a different approach.  Since I don't have a photo of this process, it's boring remember, I've posted some studies from some of the images I'm using.  I've chosen some of my favorite images for this project, all the images are from my own photos or from family archives.

This is a watercolor and pen study I painted on location (plein air).  I've incorporated it on the left side of the project.  This area is from an old house used as a bed and breakfast, it's part of the old home with the tower on the right side of the project.

None of the homes used in this project are any family homes as I was more interested in design elements and I don't have many family home photos.  None the less they represent home a place we think of as safe, a place of family, love and fond memories.  Maybe that's why I chose this theme during this anxious pandemic time.

I had fun doing a little mixed media piece using this old photo from my husband's family archives.  In the project he is standing on the left bottom in front of an antique car which is funny since this man never owned a car his whole life.  He lived close to the city and used a trolley to and from work, hard to imagine in todays world not owning a car.  Of course there are lots of people living in big cities using public transport and not owning cars.

I'm not sure if I will add color to these old images in the project or keep them as grey scale.

Stay well, be safe and positive.

Deborah Ann Kirkeeide copyright