My three Ladies...

Hi guys!

I really started to paint when my husband told me to quit sketching and drawing tiny things, I was not really working (looking after my baby boy and pregnant with our second...) so I actually had the time to work on much bigger scale.

After taking me to this very nice artshop in Barcelona, I was equipped to start on my very first huge canvas!

I decided to work from a watercolor of mine, this one,

I knew that I wanted to do something with a cubism feel, wasn't sure how to make it happened though, I am a big fan of Picasso, Braques,...

*here is a painting of Picasso, the woman with a guitar (ma jolie) 1911-12, that I really love, I took this picture at the MOMA in our last trip to New York City.

and after taking a closer look on their work, I had an idea, I decided to make 2 copies of my watercolor and try to recompose a picture with those, which gave me this...

...but it was clearly not enough but I liked it so I just kept it!

Then I made a further 4 copies of my initial watercolor, and cut them in little pieces (kind of triangular, square, rectangular shapes for the background and just cut through the body of the woman following the lines that I thought were strong) I still wanted to recognize the subject, it was my first one and I didn't want to go too far, I was not very confident at that point!!! I decided not to discourage myself with too much difficulties!

Anyway, there is the result of the collage...

I was kind of happy of the result, I like the fact there were three women (I have 2 sisters), I just thought a few things would have to go for the ''masterpiece'', after sketching on the canvas the big lines, the elements that did not have their place kind naturally disappeared, I went with the colors of my watercolor maybe a little bit brighter, more beige... I really enjoyed myself doing it, and it gave me a surprising pleasure to paint on such big scale, i really recommend it!!! But enough talking, let's see the result...

Hearts have been kind of a mark for me so instead of the mouths, I used red hot hearts, I wish I could show you closer details but I actually sold this painting last year in South Africa. I was not going to sell it but this person felt literally in love with it, and after I brought the painting in his villa, I felt like the painting belong there, it was the perfect place for it. Strange feeling though to let it go, it was my first sell, I adore it but I don't really miss it,  I know my painting is in great loving hands.

My three ladies, 2005...

Miss Drey