"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Watching...Waiting

Today's painting is my statement about the millions of women worldwide who are subjected to violence, treated as second-class citizens, and in many cases virtually invisible. I call it "Watching...Waiting," I suggested masks over their faces to represent the invisibility.
The painting itself is done on a 5"x7" piece of Arches 140 lb. watercolor paper which I prepared some time ago in the manner of Gary Lipscomb as he describes in his book "Watercolor: Let it Flow," where he uses a very wet-in-wet watercolor technique for the background. I explained this technique in one of my earlier blogs, if you are interested. (Tuesday, May 26th, 2009)

3 comments:

Barbra Joan said...

Barbara , this is outstanding ,love the painting and what it represents, Thank you.

Autumn Leaves said...

Beautiful - just simply beautiful.

Angela said...

I really love this one - very beatiful and you did a wonderful job at conveying your statement.