This painting for my “Paintings in Series” class might well be subtitled “From Mess to Success.” The assignment was to create texture in your painting. I put salt in the mother’s hair to give it texture, and then glued tissue paper on her shirt, which looked awful. In frustration, I ran the whole painting under the kitchen faucet and scrubbed at it. When it emerged, it started to look better, so I applied ink to the edges (it was damp, so it ran on the baby’s face) and reinforced the paint on the mother’s and baby’s hair. A happy accident.
