A Poem & A Painting: The Red Dress

This week’s painting is an oldie but a goodie.  This was one of my first attempts at combining mixed media and oil paint.  It turns out I must’ve done something right because this artwork was so popular it was licensed and sold as posters and giclées.  I am now working on a gown series~ large format, 24″x36″ ~ and I couldn’t be more excited.  If you are interested in a particular color let me know and I will be happy to paint it for you (or your client/friend/sister etc.)!  In the meantime, here is this week’s fittingly titled poem…

The Red Dress

I always saw,

I always said

If I were grown and free,

I’d have a gown of reddest red

As fine as you could see,

To wear out walking, sleek and slow,

Upon a Summer day,

And there’d be one to see me so

And flip the world away.

And he would be a gallant one,

With stars behind his eyes,

And hair like metal in the sun,

And lips too warm for lies.

I always saw us, gay and good,

High honored in the town.

Now I am grown to womanhood….

I have the silly gown.

~Dorothy Parker

Red Dress mixed media piece by Pamela Copeman

You know that I love gowns and I am so excited to be working on a series of these.  I’m even more excited that my talented friends Joann and Kelly of Kandrac & Kole (did you see my tour of their amazing offices??) have commissioned a custom gown piece for one of their upcoming projects ~ pinch me!

Wishing you a wonderful week ~ even if I am looking out my window to snow.  It is April, isn”t it??

xo,

Pamela

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