Completed on day five in the studio
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Joseph and the Flying Bouquet
Acrylic and sgrafitto on gessoed panel. 80 x 80 cm. 2014
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Soldier Joseph is hurrying, carrying flowers to the Princess who he’s rescued from a curse of sleep. (Or perhaps she was just a lazy stay-a-bed, pretending.) Love has loaned wings to his heels, but he’s tripped and sent sunflowers and tulips flying through the air. The Princess, alas, is not to be trusted, and our hero will be led into peril by her. Oh dear. And he looks so happy, here.
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See all the stages of the painting from start to finish, HERE
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