Daily Doodle - August 31, 2011

Daily Doodle - August 29, 2011

I haven't posted much lately, but that's about to change. 

Over the next month or two, I'm going to post some paintings (and preliminary sketches) that I did for my husband. This year, he turned 50, so I wanted to give him something special for his birthday. I decided to make him a painting for each of the years we've been together - 21 in total. This painting is the first in the series.

Now, I certainly don't claim to be romantically astute. This painting of a Hershey's Kiss is proof of that! My husband and I met at work, way back when cameras still used film and photos were developed in trays, we worked as darkroom technicians in a Vancouver photo lab. My fella-to-be's darkroom was down the hallway from mine, but I got along swimmingly with my darkroom neighbour, Ralph. In between shoving prints through our paper processors, we'd exchange witty banter, put the world to rights, and console one another when things weren't going well. Anyway, I was going through a bit of a rough patch and I'd been chatting with Ralph about it. One day, when a cute little Hershey's Kiss appeared on my darkroom easel, I naturally assumed that Ralph had left it there to cheer me up. And why not? Never mind that Tom had:

• asked me out to play with his friend's exotic animals (holding a tarantula really helps to break the ice)
• spent an evening giving me a back massage at his friend's studio (I mean, come on!)
• spent many hours mooning over me (see definition below) at the spotting table.

AND Ralph was married with two kids.

 
Apparently, Tom was crushed that I didn't recognize his oh so subtle advances.

What can I say? I'm not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.

moon over someone: to spend time thinking about someone who you are attracted to rather than doing anything useful.

Daily Doodle - August 16, 2011

For Mum