Kismet Arts Tangent

This series was completed the day after Christmas with all the snow-hubbaloo.  I painted the backgrounds without knowing what the subject was going to be. I really enjoyed the colors and the yellow happy I felt. I started the fishes first. All the glasses were drawn from life, really every type of glass I have in my apartment (except the perfectly cylidrical one, for some reason). The fish and birds were found on the internets. I think I just wanted to do something whimsical. The birds are specifically titmice and I’ve been drawn to them due to the word’s appearance in my Contemporary Novel assignment Out Stealing Horses. Before reading that book, I didn’t know that a titmouse was a type of bird. I love misleading names like that. It’s cute. I think the fish are more successful because of how the sillouette adds interest to the composition. I wanted to convey a quiet suffering. At first it’s just whimsy, but at some point the viewer realizes they are doomed little things.