Milena Jesenska

hello people of the world!

After a week of fun in the sun,

I was in the mood last night for something soft

and monotone

and relatively easy to finish

before going to bed.

:-)

It was 10pm by the time i started painting.

This is Milena Jesenska

a writer from Prague -

who died in Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944.

Whenever i think of the victims of the Holocaust,

i can't help but wonder what these people

would have become

had they been given the chance to live.

Had they not been murdered.

How would they have changed the world?

I began this painting with my fingers,

thinking i would do the whole thing with my hands.

It's on a crap piece of cardboard i had in my 'stock' pile...

an empty, cut up, clean box of store bought pizza. :-)

I thought it would be cool to paint the lights

and let the cardboard peek through

as the darker color.

But then i quickly realized it would suck with just white,

so i added brown. 

:-)

...just these 2 colors, liquid acrylics.

And here she is, in all her glory,

obviously done rather quickly.

I ended up hiding the cardboard more than i wanted to,

but i love how you can still see it a bit

on her cheek.

...and on her shoulder.

I love that her writing keeps her memory alive.

Thank you all for visiting

and putting up with my rambling...

xoxo