Sisters' Tea Party

and a Huge Fight!

Did you try the Klimt Challenge? I really wasn't going to share this with you but heck, you know me, if I take pictures then I gotta show. The truth is, I was going to offer this up for the "tea party" theme at Cloth Paper Scissors.

That's why I only showed this little snippet in Friday's post. So now you can watch her transition. Watch her come to life.

Before I give you the blow-by-blow, I should report that all my weekend chores from the to-do list have been completed.

When I feel a struggle while painting, I have come to know that it is Norah'S presence. Sometimes she quietly leads me and sometimes we resist each other. Today, we had a knock-down-drag-out!

This "Klimt Challenge" was all her idea in the first place. I had already planned to go about this Sister painting differently.

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Usually, I cut out the head from the plain paper print to transfer to the canvas. Here you see I have used the whole square. I thought it would be fun to see what might happened and how I might incorporate them. So, in the above, the images have been transferred using Golden Soft Gel (matte).
Next, I start putting color on the canvas. This is therapeutic and this is when I start to daydream. Que Norah'S entrance.

As I recall, earlier Thursday, I had been exposed to something "Klimt". And what I was thinking about was all the little flowers he uses every where. Norah's great idea was to print sheets of flowers from my on garden pictures and to cut them into little circles and just glue them down......we did.

Sometimes you just know something is going to be a challenge (struggle). (conflict). (fight).

So, I went to bed. But not before changing the "snippet's" neck position and convincing or being convinced to change the frock color. We concurred on this change...no struggle.

Friday morning, I got up and laid some more of the collage elements down on the canvas and snapped a picture. I'm having difficulty. I'm thinking there may be no hope. Norah'S thinking, there is hope. NO. YES. NO.

No art Friday night, too many weekend chores. We're not talking to each other anyway. Silent game.

This is after a fresh start Saturday morning with coffee. Everything has been glued down. Finding their frock in the blank white area was a challenge. And we are still at each other about certain little areas. But I agree, there is hope. The couch was calling so we watched a movie and went to bed.

Fresh start Sunday morning with coffee. I decided to add more "Klimt" doodles. I'm convinced that's what a lot of his background and detail is. Klimt doodles. And here is where we had the biggest fight. I knew, thiswasnotgoingtowork! It was Norah'S idea to just keep going. NO. YES. No. I swear sometimes, I don't know who is pushing or who is pulling. But I'm the one with the brush in hand and so I've got the power to paint it out. I did!

It's not that I didn't like it. It just wasn't doing what I wanted it to do in this painting. Then.....

We moved on to the area that was still bugging me. Understand, I know better that to try to remove collage elements. So why in the world would I even try? Why would I need to? I don't know, one of us is c-r-a-z-y....and it's not me. She nearly made me mess up that beautiful little tea cup.

Now, tell me what you did? What Klimt elements were you inspired by? There are at least three more in mine that I haven't mentioned. Can you name them?

Enough for this week,

Sharon