Babushka in the Sewing Room

Posted on Nov 12, 2009

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10″h x 8″w (suggested mat size) on gessoed watercolor paper
Mixed media, professional archival gouache/watercolor
NOTES: 3D artwork, filed down actual needle and thread glued to support

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Private collection, Petaluma, CA

SOLD.

Ohhh, this was fun.  This is how it started…I was bored, inbetween paintings, and I glanced over and saw my babushka pin cushion leaning against some books, and AHA! I just held her in my hand and started sketching her form, then grabbed the little quilted pincushion, then to give it a bit of a composition (of which i know next to nothing, but am learning…) I held up a couple of threads.

What happened next was just fun and magical, until I absolutely blew the background to bits….so instead of throwing it out, my soul’s cry for redemption won out.  I cut out what was salvageable, and brainstormed about placing it on pattern paper. Proceeded to paint all those little pins (at first I was thinking of just gluing beads on) only to realize the picture was a tad short of a std 10″ x 8″ mat, so I cut up the only tape measure in the house to add the length.

Ah, mistakes…..how much we learn from them.