Study for a Painting

I brought in a canvas with an underpainting full of eggshells to Olya's class. One of my classmate gave me a firm handshake for the first time since we met "Congratulations for coming up with such a good idea."

I wanted to create a painting/drawing of feet walking on eggshells. To help me visualize the idea, Olya lent me a hand mirror and a small lamp with orange floodlight. Here are a few samples of my feet's "beauty shots".

Each picture screams a story. I told Olya I really liked the last few poses with the feet leaving the ground. "Of the person is leaping," Olya said, "because underneath his feet are eggshells!" Now everything makes perfect sense.