Outside and Inside

34 x 51

350 gm watercolor paper gessoed

oil paints + cold wax

collage

Every painting has a story. Some are self-evident and some more concealed. The story behind this painting led me to explore religious belief and dress customs. I travel almost weekly on Wednesday to Jerusalem to help and visit my daughter that lives in a Moshav in the Jerusalem area and return on Thursday morning.  One morning a mother and her two daughters came on the bus dressed completely in black robes. Who were they, they didn't look Muslim and they were not nuns. As soon as they took out their small prayer books did I  recognize them as Jewish.  I had never seen this type of costume before. I took a fast photo of one of the young girls.

Young Burka Sect Girl

There are many outward signs of religious beliefs in all religions telling us what they believe in. Young married woman Muslim and Jewish with headscarves, men, and boys with tallits and kippot.

Priests Monks and Nuns. On the buses and trains women and young girls reading from various prayer books. They are taught at an early age that one should waste time on things not important and should always be studying. The photo of a girl reading was taken from a video.

 Not everything on the outside is true on the inside. 

Day 5 30 in 30

Trying to Find My Way

11.5 " x 8"

Beige Striped Paper

Gelli Print Collage

Painting

This piece was made first by putting on collage pieces and then doing Gelli Prints. Sort of messed up with this one because I covered too much of the pieces. This was edited by painting.  

The quote free translation:

It is impossible to love life when you always refer to sorry as garbage that you have to get rid of.

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Day 4 30 in 30

Cutting it pretty close. 9:20 AM 

Morroco Morroco I Miss You So

11.5 " x 8"

Beige Striped Paper

Gelli Print Collage

Painting

Acrylic

Last evening I, at last, started editing 5 Gelli Prints that I had put aside as failures. Don't know why I put this stage off but as soon as I put the paints out and started got in the mode. I thought of cutting them up but in the morning changed my mind. 

This print makes me long for my trip to Morroco which I took with my daughter fall of 2015. She was the yoga teacher for the group and I tagged along. I blogged with some of the photos but on our first day in Marrakesh, I lost my group  .  I really enjoyed looking back at the post with its composite photos. 

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