This is the photo for the next painting, or the one after that, if I decide to do the pear painting next. I might need a bigger canvas to do them both. The only canvas I have left is a small one. I might have to order a curb-side pick-up before I can continue. The doll and the snake are from Value Village, which I bought some time ago. The orchids are fabric, but the bleeding heart and the leaves are from the garden. I’d like a blonde doll at some point. I had two, but I made one into a flying fairy for the garden, and the other one is Rapunzel in a tower, also for the fairy garden. If I could find a plastic wolf that’s the right scale, I’d make this doll into a Red Riding Hood.
I painted an outline around the drawing. I’ll probably finish the background first. It’s Eve, and the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. The moth in the upper left corner is going to be a death’s head moth. The verse goes:
Things evolve unknowingly,
the orchid lures the moth,
Woman bared her innocence,
and Man invented cloth.
from the poem ‘the tick-tock pitter-patter cadence of the verse’, verse: 57.
A few days later… I’ve painted layer one on the doll, and I’ve painted her hair. I’ll finish the flowers next.
Layer one finished. Now I can start the next layer.
I’ve done a little more work, but I haven’t spent more than an hour a day on it since I had to have a tooth removed. It’s o.k., it just feels a bit weird.
I did coloured glazes over the whole painting. I think her face still needs a bit more work, but otherwise, I think she’s done. I’m priming the last small canvas I have to do the next painting, which is of a pear and flower still life.