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Maidenform

Maidenform

Watercolor in large Moleskine watercolor notebook
(To enlarge, click image, select All Sizes)

Well, I don’t know what could be more ordinary and every day than an undergarment or more odd than publishing my underwear on the internet… but I was so tired today after a really busy day yesterday that I couldn’t muster the energy to look further than my laundry basket for a subject to sketch. I asked Michael if he could tell what it was a picture of and he guessed “Um….Onions?” Oh well…I know it’s not great but it felt good to spend a little time at my drawing table and get something posted after a couple days away from the computer.

Alison’s wonderful sister is visiting San Francisco from Australia and I had the pleasure of spending the day with her yesterday. I picked her up at her hotel in North Beach (not a beach–it’s the “Old Italy” part of San Francisco, former home of the Beat poets), spent a few hours at the new DeYoung Art Museum in Golden Gate Park, then drove out to Ocean Beach where we took a stroll on the beach. The weather was lovely, much nicer than the last time I was there last summer when it was foggy, windy and cold. Then we headed back to North Beach where we spent an hour browsing in the City Lights Book Store. I bought two good books to bring with me to Mexico in two weeks. When we got hungry we walked to nearby Chinatown for a delicious dinner, then back to North Beach to say good-bye.

After all the driving yesterday, including getting quite lost a couple times thanks to really bad directions from MapQuest which I vow I will never use again, today was about staying home and taking it easy.

16 replies on “Maidenform”

This is great, Jana! I posted a watercolor and ink sketch of red lace knickers on my blog summer before last and got so many hits that day and for months and months afterward. You can imagine some of the permutations of search phrases that led people to my blog! Your blue bra and my red underpants would make a great pair (no pun intended!)

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I’ll admit to seeing the thumbnail of this picture on Flickr and thinking it was a vegetable! A pair of turnips actually!! That got my interest and when I enlarged the picture saw what it was immediatley. It’s really a beautiful painting. The colour is just perfect. And sorry about the turnip thing!

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You will have to forgive me but the juxtaposition of the image with the line “(To enlarge, click image, select All Sizes)” is way to funny. Nice painting, though, I may never be able to think of onions in the same way again.

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Owen’s comment is indeed funny – great sketch – the monotone works so well. Thank you so much for taking Naomi out – she really enjoyed the day. It’s so lovely that these internet links can sometimes spawn live link ups.

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Lovely drawing! The comments sure gave me a good laugh!! I, too, will think of maidenform when I see onions. I can just see me laughing in the produce department tomorrow.

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