Original gouache painting on archival watercolor paper.
6 x 6 inches with small white border.
This was part of the daily painting,Plant Portrait Series of February 2025.
Day 11, painted 2/11/25.
Back story:
This painting is painted from a picture I took of this space, as well as from actually sitting in front of it. The picture was more of a back up plan if I didn’t finish it in one sitting.
I consider this the 2nd of its type, landscapes inside, roomscapes with plants, those kinds of things painted. “The Plant Shelf has a Space” was the first of this kind.
Considering painting the kitchen sink in itself, felt pretty unusual to me. Not the kind of thing I typically find interesting or very aesthetic, therefore: not the kind of thing I’d usually paint, would be the best way to describe that. But something I was aware of during this time, must have led me here and for whatever reason, this day, it WAS the kind of thing I would paint and I enjoyed it. It felt very not me, and very me, at the same time.
Yes that’s “friendly duck” blue Dawn in the bottle!
Check out Write: Plant Portrait Series of February 2025 if you want more story on this piece, including the evolution from landscape portraits to interior landscapes, which was a theme within this Series, as well as the actual reference photo of my kitchen sink, you’ll find that here!
Plant Portrait Series of February 2025
I also like the title and it makes me think of throwing the baby out with the bath water, an expression my Mom recently offered up the meaning of.
Where does the expression “everything but the kitchen sink” come from?
ONE Google result says this: “The phrase “everything but the kitchen sink” first appeared in the Syracuse Herald in 1918, and was subsequently popularized during World War II, when it was often said that everything but the kitchen sink was thrown at the enemy.”
Currently on display at:
King Street Collective
Notes:
This piece DOES come framed. It is meant to be a temporary frame. There is no glass and the art is not protected long term.
Original gouache painting on archival watercolor paper.
6 x 6 inches with small white border.
This was part of the daily painting,Plant Portrait Series of February 2025.
Day 11, painted 2/11/25.
Back story:
This painting is painted from a picture I took of this space, as well as from actually sitting in front of it. The picture was more of a back up plan if I didn’t finish it in one sitting.
I consider this the 2nd of its type, landscapes inside, roomscapes with plants, those kinds of things painted. “The Plant Shelf has a Space” was the first of this kind.
Considering painting the kitchen sink in itself, felt pretty unusual to me. Not the kind of thing I typically find interesting or very aesthetic, therefore: not the kind of thing I’d usually paint, would be the best way to describe that. But something I was aware of during this time, must have led me here and for whatever reason, this day, it WAS the kind of thing I would paint and I enjoyed it. It felt very not me, and very me, at the same time.
Yes that’s “friendly duck” blue Dawn in the bottle!
Check out Write: Plant Portrait Series of February 2025 if you want more story on this piece, including the evolution from landscape portraits to interior landscapes, which was a theme within this Series, as well as the actual reference photo of my kitchen sink, you’ll find that here!
Plant Portrait Series of February 2025
I also like the title and it makes me think of throwing the baby out with the bath water, an expression my Mom recently offered up the meaning of.
Where does the expression “everything but the kitchen sink” come from?
ONE Google result says this: “The phrase “everything but the kitchen sink” first appeared in the Syracuse Herald in 1918, and was subsequently popularized during World War II, when it was often said that everything but the kitchen sink was thrown at the enemy.”
Currently on display at:
King Street Collective
Notes:
This piece DOES come framed. It is meant to be a temporary frame. There is no glass and the art is not protected long term.
