We artistes speak often of drawing from the live (i.e. nude) model but how many of us can say honestly we've drawn from the nude egg? Julie, for one, can but that's beside the point. (Katherine's eggs are still clothed.) Without further ado, then, I give you....the egg (and the sea salt, the spatula, and the pan):
To wrap up a bit of business left over from yesterday, I asked if anyone could see me in the drawing of the spoons. One or two wise---people---proffered answers. Here's the correct answer:
There I am, upside down at about 11:55 of the clock. You do know about objects reflecting upside down in concave surfaces? No? Well, read this: http://newton.uor.edu/facultyfolder/deweerd/research/opticsovertea.pdf. I'm sure it's all very interesting. not that I would know. I only made it to the opening sentence. Thanks to everyone who entered into the spoon guessing fray!
Thank you, thank you for all the great eggy comments. Cin, YOU are the inspiring one! V, T and L, the theme idea is proving helpful, I think. K, thank you for adding the permalink feature. DK's surface is convex, not concave, so you don't get the upside down phenomenon. Thank you, Terri and Zephyr and Elaine. I turned off the heat while the egg was still in the pan and drew ;D. Yay, Linda--you saw me!! I'm looking forward to trees, the next theme in waiting.
Posted by: Laura | February 21, 2006 at 08:01 PM
I finally saw you in the spoon! You know how you look and look at something and can't find it -- then the phone rings and while your mind is on something else you glance over and -- bam! Okay -- at least I think that's you. :-D
Love the frying egg -- I'm with Elaine, though -- how do you keep from getting spattered? Food month is fun, and I hate it that we only have a week to go.
Posted by: Linda | February 21, 2006 at 04:40 PM
How did you draw the egg without getting a hot fat sputter? lol Love the blues and golds.
Posted by: Elaine | February 21, 2006 at 02:20 AM
okay, so yes...the egg is great
but i love the pan even more...
metal, reflection, heat, oil
all very yummy
Posted by: zephyr | February 20, 2006 at 08:06 PM
Nope, sorry, I still can't make you out in that spoon, but if you could see me trying to stand on my head in front of the computer looking at that spoon you'd get a laugh anyway. Love the egg. Yes, Lin is right, only you could make a naked egg look so wonderful!!
Posted by: Terri | February 20, 2006 at 07:50 PM
As I commented to somebody yesterday, everybody's doing eggs in their blogs at the moment!
Apologies for not getting my permalink sorted in time - this is it in relation to "Katherine's egg" http://makingamark.blogspot.com/2006/02/burford-browns-and-old-cotswold_14.html
And did you see Duane Keiser's painting of the day this morning? He also did his reflection in his mirrorball - but it doesn't look upside down to me..........
http://duanekeiser.blogspot.com/2006/02/mirrorball-no11-click-here-to-bid.html
Posted by: Katherine | February 20, 2006 at 01:59 PM