Creativity Friday: Of mermaids and coffee houses

Vox Pop, my local coffee house, recently reopened after a community effort to save it! As part of the reopening celebration, they had members of the community come together to paint their awning. Below is my contribution, inspired by Thea’s ongoing obsession with Ariel — sort of an anti-Starbucks mermaid.

It was fun to paint her, though a little nerve-wracking, to get up on a ladder and wield paint, without any plans or preliminary sketches. (Not sure what was more frightening: being up so high, or painting al fresco without my own supplies. Painting without a net!) I was limited to about six cans of industrial-strength enamel paint, all in rather strong colors, and three oversize housepainting brushes, each in various stages of gunk. Luckily, I was able to use an old table as a palette to mix colors. For details, I called some drinking straws into play.

As for Thea, my toughest art critic, she was very pleased with my efforts. “Just like Ariel,” she approved.

Above: The awning before being painted.

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