This is the tale of how an unfinished painting with possibilities turned in to a waste of paint, kitsch and silly. Instead of throwing in the trash I put it on display. Silly me. It's an oil painting of mine (currently named pajama party) that started out as a village in the mountains with a clock tower:
I just felt it need something. So when there was a call for paintings after Chagal I added some floating people. See below, for the three floaters.
Then I thought the clock tower had to go, then a friend insisted I needed to take out the bottom figure - and I thought she was right... so I did but then
I had a dilemma - it really needed something else but I had no idea what. And it sat like this for a long time. Then the wonderful eccentrics and the local coffee shop put out a call for unicorn paintings for a summer show. One night after I had gone to bed - I sat bolt upright, went to the painting and put in the unicorn in white. Added the colors and the pajamas the next day. I don't know. It's tacky. But somehow it works. At least that is what I think now..... When it comes home from the unicorn show - who knows what might happen to it... perhaps the circular file.....
AND:
Here it is on the wall at the unicorn show:
