In the mirror
Posted: March 19, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 17 CommentsThe Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was bedridden for most of her life due to a terrible accident that occurred while she was riding a bus. She was in a full body cast for months and many of her self-portraits were painted from her bed. Thankfully I wasn’t in a bus accident but I did have to paint from bed today because of a back injury. And my sketch does have a mirror in it but thankfully it’s not a self-portrait.
Only you could be flat on you back and still be able to produce a painting like this.
It’s amazing how many things there are to sketch from this limited view.
Thanks for posting even from your bed.
Thanks Pedro. Drawing and reading is really all I can do today so I actually have more time than usual to paint.
I’m sorry that you injured your back. You still managed to make a really lovely painting. I really like all the verticals in contrast with the floor.
When my back bothers me, I usually lie on my side. I certainly hope you didn’t have to paint from that angle!
Thanks Vicky. No, I am sitting up. It would be pretty hard to paint on my side.
wow, nothing will stop you from painting!
I hope your back settles down quickly. maybe you should be doing some regular paintingyoga-sketchacise….also known as stretch-a-sketch.
I think I was doing stretch-a-sketch when I hurt my back. That’ll teach me!
Shari, you are an inspiration. I would never think I could paint from bed, nor that there would be anything in my bedroom worth painting. Again you’ve shown that even in limited circumstances, there is always something to capture our interest and make beautiful in the process.
Thanks Valerie. I am not painting to be heroic, of course, just that there’s nothing else to do.
Shari,
Another great sketch with those “clean” colors!
I hope your back feels better soon.
And I hope you share a few color mixing secrets this
summer in Portland!
Linda
Thanks Linda. I have all my colour secrets to reveal to you in Portland this summer!
Wishing you speedy recovery and agree that its true, many interesting things could be drawn from one spot. I like one russian artist, Dmitri Mitrohin, who grew old and sick and sketched simple things around his bed: medication, fruits, window. Really cool
http://www.google.com/search?q=митрохин+дмитрий+исидорович&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=qPxnT5XMIbLJ0AG5rszvCA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAQ&biw=1452&bih=1051
Thanks so much for the good wishes! I will have a look at that Russian artist. He sounds fascinating.
I love through the door way paintings. They are always such a fascinating slice of life combined with a sense of depth, of traveling into a painting.
Thanks. That one doesn’t have great memories for me since I was in a lot of pain at the time, but I would like to revisit the ideas of working with the mirror someday.
Yes! But definitely at a more comfortable time. 🙂