The Night Crew
2009
16" X 20"
Oil on Panel
Original SOLD...but Prints are Available
Three years ago I sketched something similar to this after waking from a dream
Each spring I came across it and half halfheartedly thought about looking
on the supermarket shelves for those egg dying kits I remembered
but got distracted… and another year passed.
Then I found this basket in Jane Slater’s shop in Menemsha
and brought it home to the studio and set another of Aunt Imy’s teacups on top
and Susan came up with the exact McCormick’s egg dying kit from the 60’s I was looking for
and Pat drove in to town to rendezvous for the drop off
and I rooted around in the white cabinet in the log cabin
to find every single rabbit related item we own
and boiled up the eggs and filled four cups with hot water
and caved in and added the vinegar after all
which I thought was superfluous but which, it turns out, is the only way the dye will take
and then I set it all up on the studio workbench and started sketching.
And THAT’s when the muses stepped in
all of a sudden the setting sun shot through the front window and that magical shadow appeared.
Had I started five minutes later I would have missed it.
I love it when that happens.
Image Size: 14" X 18.5"
$295