Saturday, July 12, 2025

Potraits

zdaughter enjoys making art, especially painting.  This is her fifth year of art camp so she comes home every day with new pieces.  Our home gallery includes a paper-mâché hippopotamus head, a drip-painted statue of a rabbit, a picture of a watermelon pressed onto paper using a styrofoam block, and many many canvases.  She likes landscapes and seascapes but I think her best work is her portraits.

Here are two self-portraits.


She has become a major Teedge fan ever since she saw photos of his cats with wine.  She calls him The Cat Wine Guy and will tell me "text this photo to The Cat Wine Guy."  Here's her portrait of him.


Alright, maybe not.  But that's a couch potato so it could be Teedge.

Here's her portrait of TR:


Alright, maybe not.  It's a deep pull from We Bare Bears but it could be TR if you watch the episode.

Here are portraits of zcats.


The one on the right was rushed so she's going to do another this coming week.  She also says the cat on the right is harder to paint because she's all one color.  We'll see what happens.

Here's one of me.


She says it looks better this way.


Again, maybe not.  That's Spider-Man but I'm a superhero for shlepping her to and from art camp all summer.

And my favorite portrait of the summer is the one of rob.


No joking here, that's our man squirrel.  Note the slightly angry camber of his eyebrows and the tuft of gray on top of his head and peppered into his chest hair.  Spot on.

Please feel free to request a portrait.  Every morning while I'm getting her ready for camp she says "what should I paint" and no matter what I suggest she says "that's boring" or "that's lame" so she needs inspiration from outside the house.

5 comments:

  1. Z daughter needs to take a go at portrait of one of our dogs.

    In other news, I had a great summer afternoon. Hung by the pool and listened to good music whilst cooking steaks- NY strips for dinner and skirt steak for tacos in a day or two and added smoked red potatoes with red onions and cheese in the skillet.

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  2. That is a perfect portrait of me

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  3. Is there a no phones policy at OBFT?

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  4. Too drunk and high to type.
    Then too hung over. Oy.

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