{"id":1274,"date":"2011-05-20T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2011-05-20T07:49:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T14:49:23","slug":"wwld-what-would-lisa-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/20\/wwld-what-would-lisa-do\/","title":{"rendered":"WWLD: What Would Lisa Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/34-cala-lily.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-748\" title=\"34.Cala Lily\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/34-cala-lily.jpg?resize=396%2C615\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"615\" \/><\/a>I set this Georgia O\u2019Keeffee-sque challenge for myself this week because I thought it would be an easy one. I knew I had a crazy week ahead after a crazy week behind and since I\u2019m running on empty I thought I\u2019d set a challenge based on a lesson plan I have done literally dozens of times.\u00a0 Piece of cake right?\u00a0 I have talked about Georgia O\u2019Keeffe and done a sample demo for truly hundreds of kids\u2026 this should have been easy, it should have been a quickie, zip zap done, like I do for a bunch of kindergarteners (short attention spans mean work fast).\u00a0 But some how this one just wouldn\u2019t come.\u00a0 I did at least three small paintings in my studio all of which I deemed unworthy of the blog.\u00a0 Then I thought ok maybe it\u2019s too much pressure, I\u2019ve been trying to do a Georgia O\u2019Keefe painting and I\u2019m not Georgia O\u2019Keeffe so there is no way I can hit that mark.\u00a0 So I thought maybe I\u2019ll work the flower in the computer and came up with a Georgia O\u2019Keeffe meets Andy Warhol piece <em>(working title Georgia Warhol)<\/em> but you know what? It lacked some essential Andy Warhol-ness, I guess I\u2019m not Andy Warhol either.\u00a0 Then I played around with the flower more in photoshop and came up with a Roy Lichtenstein meets Georgia O\u2019Keeffe piece that was neither Roy nor Georgia and certainly not ME.\u00a0 I went to bed frustrated and frazzled how would I get this piece done by weeks end, other deadlines were pending other obligations set.\u00a0 The next morning I tore up all my other painting and dragged the computer work to the trash and hit empty (so I couldn\u2019t fall back on them) and set to work.\u00a0 I had 4 hours to get something done or else on Friday I would have to admit defeat and write that I couldn\u2019t complete my homework.\u00a0 In the night had I realized what seems pretty obvious now, all week I had been trying to make a piece of artwork in somebody else\u2019s image, trying to BE somebody else.\u00a0 I could not do what Georgia, or Andy, or Roy would do I had to ask WWLD, <em>What Would Lisa Do?\u00a0 <\/em>First I thought back to my lesson with the kids, I always tell them to \u201cbe the bee\u201d and zoom into the flower, well I\u2019m a mighty big bee so maybe working small was part of the problem.\u00a0 I cut a piece of door sized canvas, brought over a vase of Calla Lilies, warmed up my arm, zoomed in and went BIG!\u00a0 Then I got out my signature Cadmium red and outlined the whole thing in red.\u00a0 Now this felt like me, now I knew what I was doing.\u00a0 The whole thing flew together after that- big brushes swooping and swiping in big arcs, I was all done and cleaned up by lunch and it felt good, it felt like me!\u00a0 I have pinned the painting to my studio door to remind myself each time I enter that space and sit down to create, first ask WWLD?\u00a0 Then go for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set this Georgia O\u2019Keeffee-sque challenge for myself this week because I thought it would be an easy one. 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