Nap Like an Egyptian
21 Oct 2025 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhack My latest art endeavor has been painting. Oh, wait, I don't think I shared our last artful prompting challenge, did I? I will rectify that later.
I painted this from a photo we* took when we lived in Egypt. J has always loved the image and wanted me to paint it for him. So, two years later from when I said I would do it, here it is, 80x80cm (31x31in) in acrylics (a medium I rarely use).
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*I say "we" because we can't precisely remember who took it. I thought J did; he thought I did. After further reflection, I think he is probably right because he is more careful when setting up his shots of people, whereas I panic and snap the photo as quickly as possible for fear of getting caught. Since the image could have been framed better, etc., I am pretty sure it was on me. To make up for my mistakes, in painted form, I took time to compose it a bit better. The "props"--as in the obviously-indoor trashcan, the mop bucket, and mop--were already there, but there were at least 3 more squeegees, too; I moved them around a bit to give more focus to our napper.
I painted this from a photo we* took when we lived in Egypt. J has always loved the image and wanted me to paint it for him. So, two years later from when I said I would do it, here it is, 80x80cm (31x31in) in acrylics (a medium I rarely use).
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*I say "we" because we can't precisely remember who took it. I thought J did; he thought I did. After further reflection, I think he is probably right because he is more careful when setting up his shots of people, whereas I panic and snap the photo as quickly as possible for fear of getting caught. Since the image could have been framed better, etc., I am pretty sure it was on me. To make up for my mistakes, in painted form, I took time to compose it a bit better. The "props"--as in the obviously-indoor trashcan, the mop bucket, and mop--were already there, but there were at least 3 more squeegees, too; I moved them around a bit to give more focus to our napper.