Fairy Bekka
This piece I began late one night. It began with blues and blacks and a fanciful attitude. I thought, "well I don't how this will go!" I painted with a certain freedom in my spirit. even a bit manic! Paints were going on the canvas in a manner I normally just didn't work. Usually I have at least some idea what I want to do, but this time I really didn't, I just felt like painting, a bit sloppy even. The new bronze tones I acquired were the first on, and then some charcoal black, and gold. To play around with an entirely new medium, I used a packaged material for filtering fish tanks. This amalgamation of paint and filter created a spongy texture and an ethereal quality. At this point I felt it needed more color so I incorporated my favorite blues, lavender and sapphire which is a bluish purple. It reminded me of the same colors found in my friend Rebecca Altman's work. (She is a dear friend from high school who still paints with me from time to time.) For the final strokes I went in and added the black vines and the various white, black, blue and yellow, dime and quarter sized butterflies with a fine brush. Rebecca and I both have younger sisters who are exactly the same age difference from us, sixteen years difference. Bekka tells her sister Naomi that she is really a fairy princess. Whereas I tell my sister, Whitney, that I am a mermaid --princess of course. It's sort of our private joke between all of us girls. So, now when I see the painting I have created which looks like the dwelling of any proper fairy -- a 'butterfly forest' then I must name it after the only fairy princess I know : Bekka
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