I was emailing with my daughter’s art teacher today and her email signature contained the following quote: “I finally realized I had painting down to a perfection when I could imitate what children drew.” — Pablo Picasso. Love that!!!
The above painting is a copy I did some years ago of Picasso’s “Child Holding a Dove.” Not quite the Picasso people would automatically recognize. That was one of the things that drew me to it. Doves are a recurring theme in Picasso’s work. His father bred them and many of his childhood sketches included them. Our paintings represent a return to thoughts of childhood and memories of his sister, and mine… of my daughter as a young girl (she had hair like that, only blonde).
After I read that quote I dug my painting out of the bevy of works I keep in the cupboard under the stairs. This painting hung for many years above my bed. Seeing it now makes me love it all over again. Maybe It’s time I put it back up.
