Salon Challenge #5 - Secret Love

Our #5 salon challenge was so ... shall we say, 

"challenging"?

Our parameters were:

1. Give up a painting that you considered finished,

and that you liked well-enough, 

not too small,

and was not varnished yet. 

(We drew names for the person whose painting we got.)

2. We were given a list of the top 10 songs for the year that person was born

for inspiration while painting on our cohort's work of art. 

For instance, I was born in 1953 (gak) 

and the top song of that year was 

from the movie Moulin Rouge by Percy Faith. 

- hope you can listen on that link (Spotify) -

3. Our limited palette was:

Cerulean Blue

Viridian

Yellow Ochre

Alizarin Crimson

White

In no particular order - 

Timi had my painting, titled - The Standout,

you may remember November of 2013 when I 

began posting about this painting. (that is the link to way-back-when)

I called it Crawford Notch or something back then.

I stretched the canvas over 24" x 24" stretcher bars ages ago. 

Timi thought I may need a drink to see what she did to this painting, but

 ... I was totally fine! 

I love it!

She is not finished with this painting and will finish one of these days. It IS Moulin Rouge and Toulouse-Lautrec! She was inspired by the music and the rock cliff in the original, which became can-can dancer fluffy frocks. So cool!

Tomorrow ... or next post, I will continue revealing our challenge paintings, 

and discuss the evolution of the (teaser shown in B&W) painting at the top of this post.

Love to hear your comments!

Happy painting!