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| Girls Splashing at the Pool, mixed media |
As they say in Britain where I come from it's brass monkies out there! The expression is both rather charming and rather crude when you find out what it means but it is still a cute phrase meaning it's getting rather nippy out there!
Living in Baltimore has been something of a shock to the system for a woman born on a sodden island. Here the summers are so incredibly hot and humid that you have to spend your days up to your neck in water like a hippo if you want to feel semi-human! But now that it is Fall and the leaves are all turning orange suddenly I start missing summer, the humidity, drinking iced tea by the pool and even the screeches of kids while I try to 'chillax' with a copy of People Magazine.
So I'm linking this image I did called 'Girls Splashing at the Pool' to Paint Party Friday because I love how the girl in the front is screaming. It is so wonderful to just let all your pent up energy out sometimes! But it gets more socially unacceptable as you grow into adulthood. It is watercolor overlaid with chalky pastel.
Here's looking forward to winter and looking back at one swelteringly hot summer .....
lovely and expressive painting. Thank you for sharing
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What an expressive painting! I love the way you've handled the water!
ReplyDeleteAmazing expressive painting!
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Ilona
What a fun painting! Great expressions and a good reminder of summer fun! I find the summers too hot too. It really does need cool water :)
ReplyDeletelove the girls expressions. Thanks for bringing back a bit of summer- I miss it already!
ReplyDeleteEnergetic and expressive reminder of summer and childhood. I love the colors.
ReplyDeleteGreat painting which makes me nostalgic for summer holidays to Spain when I was young and I spent alk my time in the pool! Right now that humid Baltimore summer sounds wonderful-I'm freezing my bits off in Scotland!
ReplyDeleteI like how the sunlight reflects on the girls. It sure looks like summer fun!
ReplyDeleteVery expressive and colorful. I like the composition.
ReplyDeletewhat a great expressive painting..it reminds me of my kids shouting Mum..I am bored. Well its freezing cold here and is not cracking the flags at all...lol! You sound like a fellow northerner;)
ReplyDeleteLorraine.....thanks chuck for thinking I'm from Up North but I'm from down South. I've probably watched too much Coronation Street and Open all Hours over the years and somehow have an affinity with northerners?
ReplyDeleteHave always wondered what "brass monkeys" meant - now I know. I remember those sets of three Wise Monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, etc.) from my grandmother - in the old days everyone seemed to have a set! I made a stitched set of girls representing the same idea here: http://fraiing.blogspot.com/2013/02/primary-colours.html
ReplyDeleteOh for those carefree summer days!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving from frigid NY. Yes, I'm from England too.
We should compare notes one day!
I could do with some of that warmth right now! Your pictures are so lovely.
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