the uncut cloth

So I have had a major rethink about my final project for Visual Literacy. The plan was to take the painting The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and treat it like a series of self portraits. I am decidedly NOT doing a series of self portraits. Mind you, I had fun going my old photographs and I have my vanities but I am rather disinclined to paint myself. Plus it turns out I need practice with portraiture.  The idea I went with instead is I reimagined what these four children where doing. Ya-Ya is clearly on the floor playing with her favorite toy but in my version she's playing with legos. The other children are on various forms of electronica. Suddenly their detachment makes all the sense in the world. Because I am going with legos, I am granting myself relief from the monochromatic color palette for the painting. Legos use a triad palette of reds, yellows, and blues. This palette gives me access to ALL THE COLORS, but I promise to keep it simple. For my research, I am reading the ...