Sketch

My computer and I haven't been speaking this week, but got a photo (not necessarily a good one) of a possibly usable sketch for a painting.  The printer is not speaking to the computer either, so I had to take the pic with a camera outside and download it to here. 
But it rather obviously is a relationship between a couple and their server.

I will be off the computer until I get the bugs out, so will be back in a couple of weeks hopefully.

I realize it's kind of hard to tell what's going on.  So thanks for looking, anyway.

back to the beginning

Time this week has really sped by and I have been so busy reworking my studio I have gotten much else done.  But I wanted to tell a little bit about how I decided on this "relationship" series.  It was something that had I had on the back of my mind for years, but hadn't worked out how to translate to paper/canvas.  We went out to dinner and this young man came up and "My name is Jimmy or Janis and I will be your server tonight.We smiled politely and said hello and maybe placed out order and didn't think about it anymore except when our food was put before us.  I don't know about you, but I doubt if I could remember his face or even his name by the end of the night.  He was almost invisible.

    Do you see him in this picture?  I guess he really is invisible.  Look for him soon.

Step 2 in my sketch/painting.

'With this Ring"

This is my working sketch for the finished painting.  I will add a few minor adjustments

when I paint it  In a small sketch it's hard to apply small accents.

Development of an Idea

Newest sketch for my relationship series, it's called simply "wedding vows".  I was taken by the joy and love these two young people felt at their wedding.  But, how much do they really know about each other,  As a long married woman, I am very comfortable with my husband and love him dearly.  But there is an inner part that neither of us will truly comprehend about the other.  We have learned to accept these strange (to us) parts and can sometimes anticipate reactions, when out of the blue he can come up with a truly unexpected thought.  And  there is always that little masculine or feminine reaction that the other can never quite decipher.
So I decided to include the young, romantic in this series.
This is a first sketch.  I thought you might be interested to see how it progresses from here to finished painting.