Sprouted Sweet Pea 1

Sprouted Sweet Pea 1

(The Dancer)

13 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 1 7/8"
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This sweet pea was drawn with oil pastels on steel siding. I mounted the steel siding to a frame made from recycled wood. The back of the mount was made with three boards from a pallet, the "matte" is lath board that I saved five years ago when took down the old ceiling in our dining room and put in dry wall, and the side of the mount is wood from an old thrown out crate. Sanding it down to the appropriate finish took hours and hours and was definitely a labor of love. Thankfully, we have recently acquired a planar on long term loan and using it is like working magic after having completed this mount entirely by hand.

I call this painting "The Dancer" because every time I look at it I think of a dancer doing an arabesque - a ballet position in which the dancer stands on one leg and extends the other leg behind while holding one arm up and one to the side. I envision the root and stem twisting and turning as they journey toward their destination.