#chalk box

[wnq-writers]

You see me as one of your roses, dripping with blood, wilting in your beautiful hands. You plucked me from the endless field of extraordinary women because I am ordinary and insecure and an easy target, and I will forever despise you for your cruelty. I wonder how many other flowers are choking in vases, wishing they had fought to stay in fields of grass instead of being imprisoned in glass castles, envied but unloved.

chalk-box

[sluggoonthestreet]

Doodler's maxim: which road you take is far less important than what you create along the way.

[tubesofpaint]

Finished commission painting!  This is a remake of an older painting, which I have linked below.  

Watercolor, 7.5″x11″

There is a short story behind this painting: back in college, I had an art professor who had a variety of odds and ends in her office.  I found this old box of chalk while we were searching for specific art supplies, and she said it had survived a house fire.  The box itself was falling apart, and full of crumbled bits of chalk.  I was rather enamored with it, and since she had no further attachment to it, she gave it to me.  Because of this, I call the painting “Remnants from the Fire.”

Original Version