Thursday, February 21, 2008

Making Cloaks for Gentlemen

This day I spent an extraordinary amount of time on the fur blanket that is spilling from the settee. I added a little more to the patterned rug, it still needs some help. Here is the Fate that is to be sewing the gentleman's mouth shut. Yep. It's me! Actually, I posed for all of the Fates and then changed their heads, but when I got to the last one, I just said "why not?". My 34th birthday is today, and I never do self-portraits. I had that little talk in my head that sounded like Christopher Walken talking to Dennis Hopper in True Romance. "What I have to offer you- this is as good as you're gonna get, and it's not gonna get that good again." So I put my face in!



6 comments:

Niall young said...

Happy Birthday hillbilly!..The painting is splenderous..and is all the better for seeing your mischevous smile shining from it!

Unknown said...

Happy B-day, Have really been enjoying your work/blog...

The Grunt said...

Happy Birthday, pessimist;) Your painted smile is brilliant.

Crystal said...

LOVE this painting!

you are beautiful!

Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler said...

Thanks, everyone, for the birthday greetings. And thanks, crystal for stopping by my blog. I'm so glad you like the painting.

Devil Mood said...

hehe you look so cute there!
Happy Birthday (belated, of course!) but I 'heard' you had 2 cakes so it's gotta be a good one!