LITTLELIST

🍓 Strawberry Set 🍓 sharing creative process

Added 2025-02-01 18:00:09 +0000 UTC

👑Part of the 'With You' series🎨

Piece Title: On a Walk
Size: 10x10"
Materials: oil on wood panel

completed June 2024

👑Part of the 'With You' series🎨

Piece Title: Eating Out
Size: 10x10"
Materials: oil on wood panel

completed June 2024

👑Part of the 'With You' series🎨

Piece Title: At the Liberry
Size: 10x10"
Materials: oil on wood panel

completed June 2024

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🍓painting background, thoughts & process work🍓

3 silly paintings! basically strawberry themed around things we like to do! not too deep...
At the Liberry and On a Walk are more straightforward- Eating out has a funnier starting point.. I'll expand below

here are the sketches i started with

Eating Out was the first idea- the other two came after.. mostly just to make it a tryptic set. I know this just looks like strawberry paintings but it started off kinda goofy...! and I hope this is a fun journey for you
I was thinking about fun yonic and phallic art a lot at the time, after seeing some really delightful paintings by Camila Engstrom (a swedish painter) (but specifically this image of her works https://coveteur.com/media-library/female-artists.jpg?id=25311835&width=1600&quality=90 from the article she was featured in)
and this post from this artist who I can't find anywhere else https://x.com/Carey_leslie00/status/1400470615199346691
I loved how both of their pieces were at one time so blatantly sexual but also so.... non explicit? the cute phallic little mountain, the flowers ovulating- just so fun and visually appealing in colors and shapes
in general I'm soo delighted when I see artists that put sexual and coochie imagery in their art in a playful way- from Georgia O'Keefe to Megumi Igarashi (manko chan) and there's been a part of me trying to think of ways to do similar things within my painting series (mostly because i think it's fun) and this was an experiment to try it- I don't think I quite nailed it on the head with this one but still was delightful to paint the shapes..!

I'll leave you with this funny art history moment

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