Last night I couldn’t sleep. My bad. She-who-has-been-eating-clean ate crap, lots of it. I won’t bore you with the details except to say that salty sweet popcorn was involved. And olives. And gluten free pizza. And watermelon. I know, in hindsight heavy on the ewwwww WHAT was I thinking???? factor. Enough so that when I climbed into bed my body said, “Mwaha-ha-ha, you’ve GOT to be kidding!” Then it ramped up everything internal that it could. Let’s have a bit o’ racy heart, shall we? And a rumbly tum. And maybe a bit of indigestion because those olives would rather be sitting up.
So I sat up. And since Mr. Spouse was out of town I turned on the light and grabbed the iPad. And since my legs were in front of me I decided what the hell, might as well photograph them. Because I’m easily amused at 2 AM and what’s not to like about bare nekked thighs?
So I photographed my legs, my bare nekked thighs and came to the realization I’d better art those suckers up because what if those olives were bad and I died and my kids went through the ipad and found those photos??? OMG, I would die of embarrassment if I wasn’t dead already. Or even worse–if they found them when I was alive–they would be merciless.
Little shits darlins’.
I played with the photos in a couple of apps before importing them into Procreate where I played with them some more. Looking at those images dispassionately, studying them with an artist eye, I could sense a landscape waiting to happen. 
And then another. 
And BTW, that’s not a blob of Cheeto fat living under my skin. I believe it’s my knee. Yes, we’ll call it my knee.
I thought I’d be super-artist and have an actual painting to show you by tonight, based on one of these studies. Uh-huh, right…. Three hours of sleep was not conducive to a productive day. Go figure.
Now I’m off to take more photos. Think I’ll focus on my feet tonight. This is already becoming a series in my mind, Bodyscapes. But I have a question–should I identify the parts or keep some mystery in the finished pieces? If you have an opinion let me know in the comments below.
And remember this my sweetums, always–
I vote for a contest. Keep the body parts secret and ask us to identify them. Winner gets all the remaining olives, pizza and salty sweet popcorn that’s still hangin’ about. None left? No contest but still keep the body parts secret and ask us to identify them.
As for falling off the wagon – welcome to my life. However as they say at Weight Watchers “tomorrow is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start!”
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You just want to win my leftovers, Kelly. Well guess what, I’m coming to your house for dinner. Better get cleaning/weeding/cooking!
I believe I will keep the identity of the parts to myself, let people see toes where they want to see toes. Or other random parts.
All ready for your visit. Cleaned/weeded/cooked.
Ok keep it a mystery – I’ll be first in line at guessing.
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How imaginative you are!! I’d have never known.
I trust by your comment you mean you would never have known these images are based on my parts, Naomi…as opposed to never have known how imaginative I am 🙂
How fabulously fun! I’m sorry there was some distressed tum issues at the heart of this inspiration, but Bodyscapes is pure gold. I vote for maintaining the mystery and allowing guessing.
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The distressed tum had a part to play in the great scheme of things, Deborah…making lemonade from lemons. And never fear, the mystery is appealing to me more and more so that’s what it shall be.
I vote for mystery! And I love this series, especially that first image. I’m with Naomi — I’d’ve never guessed these were legs, or any other body parts for that matter. (But it don’t take a genius to guess how imaginative you are.) 😉
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Yep, mystery wins this one Harmony! I love this series too, provides me with a never ending stream of inspiration. I plan on using one of these as a jumping off point for a ‘real’ painting this weekend. Key phrase is ‘jumping off point’ which is another way of saying I have NO idea what the finished painting will be like. Come back Monday and see. 🙂
So yummy! That appears to be impressive.
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Thanks, Claudia. Paintings to follow next week.
I love your creative exploration of your body, it would have never crossed my mind to see my legs in this way!
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Thanks Tat. It took sleep deprivation and indigestion before I saw my legs as arty inspiration 🙂
Love Bodyscapes & add my vote for Mystery! And you have such a way with color, Susan, I’m soaking it in . . .
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It’s interesting that you should mention the color, Janet. I’m about to go out in the studio and do the paint thing and I’ve been mulling over using a neutral palette for the next incarnation of these. “Mulling it over’ doesn’t mean it will happen…so much depends on the way da muse shows up. Either way, I’ll have something to show next week.
Mystery. When in doubt, always go with mystery!
Yep, that’s the conclusion I’ve come to Pam–mystery.