Aunt Val. More like an older sister who was out of the house before me. She's my Dad's Sister, and when I was very young I knew her as getting ready for dates and driving me around in her car putting on frosted pink lipstick and just being totally awesome. There is a shift in energy when we are together... everything is loopy and fun, emotional and full of laughter and sass. She has... WE have been through a ton of I-wish-this-wasn't-happening-but-it-is moments in the past two years that I know *I* wouldn't have been able to get through without her. All I can say, is she is the Aunt who knows all the dirt on yours truly.
I thought this ocean teeny art was just for her. She like my Mom's sister Tilee loves the Ocean. Since she's my RISK IT ALL AND LAUGH ABOUT IT LATER relative... it seemed fitting to give her the painting that I was trying out a new brush with and it happened to come out terrific. This painting also makes me miss my home in Lynn, MA...but I know it is a risk-it-all-and-laugh-about-it-later kind of time for me.
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MOM. <3<3<3 My Mom is always there to go to a museum or any destination with me no questions asked. So much so that one Halloween I took a vacation and was going to spend five days in Salem. She said she would like to come, and I said that was fine but I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to experience and she would have to go to those places with me, because I planned a solo adventure. She did. Sometimes I am like "I AM GOING TO DO ALL THE THINGS!! IF YOU WANT TO COME KEEP UP!"
My friends are mostly like "meh" and she's always like "ok"
I was like "I'm going to Art School" and she was like "ok", and I was like "I'm GOING TO WORK IN MOVIES!!!" and she was like "ok" and I was so surprised my whole life because I hear of other relatives and parents being like "YOU CAN'T GO TO ART SCHOOL, you must do something practical" and my Mom was always like "ok" My achievements are hers :)
SO my Mom got the first one I made on this teeny art mission. I was going for an impressionistic style (Monet, Mary Cassatt) and also an abstract representation of that style and came up with what I know is a blond lady in profile wearing a blue bow in her hair and a blue dress sitting at a table with tea, but you can only see it if you are standing at least 20 feet away from the teeny thing. :)
You'll see it. And if not you will see the duck with the hat my Mom sees in there too.
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Shannon is my 3rd cousin? I dunno hahaha. I know we are related and she is on my Dad's side. That side of the family is huge and I don't know anyone's exact relation to me, I just know they are. Grandpa had a million brothers and sisters, so. I don't know Shannon very well, and if I met her before last year I don't know. I say this all because I do not have a little blurb about her except that she had a bottle rocket war with my cousin on Independence Day and plays some great horseshoes. She told me that her daughter says it's DEFINITELY a Mermaid in the painting. :)
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