A woman in distress

Hollywood and the movie studios....

have often explored and exploited

the subject of a woman in distress...

and one couldn't get enough of it...

Ela hanging and waiting for Tiresome or Tarzan to rescue her...

Filmmakers, novelists and screen play writers

have fun exploring this theme.

Some of Hitchcock films for example,

Vertigo, Rear Window, Marnie and others

are good examples... 

In the meantime, back to being an artist

there was a construction going on at the site

where i painted last and the earth movers

and other machines were in the way

of my picture composition so

i sort of wasted my trip to the 

Pacific heights area...

The rains this week also impeded

my plein air endeavor so I started a new 

project about the

women and culture in the 60s.

This is from a B/W stock photo reference....i still have to trace
the photographer and/or the model....

Painting still in progress, 36" x 48"
(based on a B/W photo) which i started last night

of a Londoner in the swinging 60s.

I'll let you in as i get along with the project,

Twiggy would be part of the series.
The woman in the painting has a resemblance to
Stacy who was my diligent and brilliant
classmate in Fine Art and Animation...
we burned the midnight
oil together rushing projects in the animation lab...
she now
lives and paints in Laguna Beach.

au revoir!

jt