Our best dresses (re-worked)
Acrylic on wood panel 8" x 7.5" This painting has been sold
This must be about 1949 or 1950. The lady is our next door neighbour Alice. She was beautiful with golden curls and so sweet. Like us they were not particularly well off but she always wore pretty clothes. Sometimes she would go to the market and buy some lengths of cheap cotton and my mum would make her a nice dress. We are standing here in a field just up the road from our house. You can see new building beginning in the background. Now, this area where we are standing is all built up with houses.
This painting is number 10 in the "Not the Sheila I know" series.
In the rework I have made the lady resemble Alice a bit more, which makes me happy (although I know not many other people will realise that). i have also indicated some pattern on her dress because I remember that dress so well, it was a pretty blue, crepe de chine kind of fabric. I have also darkened and firmed up the structures in the background behind the two figures.
posted by Sheila Vaughan at 3:12 PM
2 Comments:
I do love this one Sheila. Don't we remember such detail from the past sometimes. Love the nostalgia this series has evoked in me as well!
Yes its true, we do. I met this lady again last year. She is well into her eighties now but you know she is still pretty (and I told her so).
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