Shhhh! Zoot's sleeping. He's dreaming of chasing mice and thinking: It's finally comfortable enough to sleep on my beloved chair once more. The bad lady in the paint-splattered white coat hasn't been seen in over a month. Maybe she's gone. Gone for good. Uh bliss!Poor, poor delusional Zoot ...
As you can see in the photo above, Arlene would never have a starving artist starve, so she provided a yummy Soup du Jour when I went to her house yesterday. Here you see the soup and the chair, with the cafe scene starting to appear...
My quick thinking friend knew that it wouldn't be comfortable for me to paint the chair at floor level so we did the obvious thing. We picked the chair up and placed it on the plastic draped dining room table!
The back of the chair is shown here. We haven't touched it yet. What I paint on the back is going to be a surprise right until the end ... even to me. Speaking of surprises, stay tuned, we're cooking up more exciting surprises for our Blogful Faithful ~ very, very soon!
If you look real close (I should get a closer, close up for you to see), you'll notice that unlike the original Van Gogh, the cafe is fairly empty. That's because Arlene and her husband Dan are the only two left at the cafe. It's almost closing time and their horse drawn carriage is about to arrive ~ see it in the background?
I'm not completely finished this panel, but I wanted to get a fresh start on it later after I haven't been staring at it for so long. This is sooo much fun people!
As you can see in the photo above, Arlene would never have a starving artist starve, so she provided a yummy Soup du Jour when I went to her house yesterday. Here you see the soup and the chair, with the cafe scene starting to appear...
My quick thinking friend knew that it wouldn't be comfortable for me to paint the chair at floor level so we did the obvious thing. We picked the chair up and placed it on the plastic draped dining room table!
The back of the chair is shown here. We haven't touched it yet. What I paint on the back is going to be a surprise right until the end ... even to me. Speaking of surprises, stay tuned, we're cooking up more exciting surprises for our Blogful Faithful ~ very, very soon!
If you look real close (I should get a closer, close up for you to see), you'll notice that unlike the original Van Gogh, the cafe is fairly empty. That's because Arlene and her husband Dan are the only two left at the cafe. It's almost closing time and their horse drawn carriage is about to arrive ~ see it in the background?
I'm not completely finished this panel, but I wanted to get a fresh start on it later after I haven't been staring at it for so long. This is sooo much fun people!
