I love b&w photography. Most of my pictures are in b&w and my attention is captured longer by the emotions expressed in those pictures. But these days, locked in my four walls for longer than I can count, I need some color in my life. I’m thinking of taking up painting, at least over m b&w pictures.
I’ find myself playing around, mostly to get out of the daily routine of listening to the news and seeing friends only via Zoom. There is, regrettable, no end in sight. And when there is a change, I’ll be the last one to run outside and enjoy my new-found freedom. That’s just me. I’m the cautious one.
In the meantime, I’m turning my little apartment into a different place. No surprise visitors, so I hang up pictures that I would never display otherwise. Some of the pictures from this blog, but mostly pictures that show much more. Pictures of faces, of people, laughing, crying, young and old. Pictures of the way life should be. Colorful.
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moxiedavid
It sounds to me that you’re beginning to let out previously hidden parts of you, creative expressions, in color and in black and white …now out in the open, surrounding you, framing your room(s), no longer your “taboo” pictures (in that you could not bring them out in the open) but now these pictures have become “your own pictures” without any “taboo attached.” Give yourself permission to let yourself be out in the open visually in pictures and words all over your apartment. (Unless there a places you aren’t comfortable showing yourself because they are the background for your Zoom friends.
What media are you going to paint in? Watercolor, oil, acrylics, pen & ink, pastels?
Which will support you in giving visibility to your journey now and then also your hidden desires?
xoxo
Francesca Demont
I’m slowly letting my mental breakdowns out into the open. I’ve started hanging up pictures, highly edited with Lightroom, so they resemble some surreal version or reality. That’s just about where my mind is at the moment. xoxo
Eve Ray
Looking amazing as ever! x
Francesca Demont
Thank you!
elliott
I am enjoying your artistry.
Francesca Demont
A work in progress….
Modesty Ablaze
You have the most wonderfully amazing outfits … and amazing figure. Just gorgeous photos both !!!
Totally envious of these.
And I have a feeling your paintings would be similarly wonderful !!!
Xxx – K
Francesca Demont
I think my paintings could pass the kindergarten test, but I’m not sure I’ll be displaying them in a gallery anytime soon. Thanks anyway! xo
Bee
I know how you feel, I find I need vibrant colours when I’m in need of cheering up.
Francesca Demont
I agree. I was once in Barbados and everything was so colorful. Maybe a reason why people seemed happy there. xoxo
Molly
Yes I can understand this completely. I have actually been thinking of getting some images printed of some people so I can put them up in various parts of my home too
Molly
Francesca Demont
Good thing is that high-quality prints can be ordered through the mail. I now have a few pictures up that I probably wouldn’t keep up once unexpected visitors may stop by. xoxo
DeviantSuccubus
You look wonderful as always! I like how being stuck inside and isolated has made you be more true yourself.
Francesca Demont
Thanks, Devie. You may well be right, though there comes a point where I feel like I’m going insane. I start doing weird things. But maybe that’s all part of me. 😘
Marie Rebelle
Such beautiful images. You always look so good in your images!
Rebel xox
Francesca Demont
That’s one reason I don’t do selfies when I wake up. I don’t want to destroy the illusion. 😉