FCA Featured Artist - Alison Willard
The Daily Serving, by Alison Willard
Don't get me wrong. I love my children. They are amazing, inquisitive, energetic beings with boundless energy. I want the best for them always. The multitude of roles that mothers play is what gets dissolved in all that energy. The Daily Serving combines symbolism and imagery from two tales "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and "A Story for Children" by Svava Jakobsdoitir. Through these stories an image manifests to speak narrative on the push and pull of womanhood and motherhood that remains timeless.
--Alison Willard
Don't get me wrong. I love my children. They are amazing, inquisitive, energetic beings with boundless energy. I want the best for them always. The multitude of roles that mothers play is what gets dissolved in all that energy. The Daily Serving combines symbolism and imagery from two tales "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and "A Story for Children" by Svava Jakobsdoitir. Through these stories an image manifests to speak narrative on the push and pull of womanhood and motherhood that remains timeless.
--Alison Willard
A work of art seldom pops out all at once. Most take time and thought. “The Daily Serving” was created over a course of weeks, with a number of sketches in preparation for the final painting. You can see in these studies that some ideas will stay, and others will go, maybe to come back again. It is how a painting grows until it is finished.
These drawings show the beginning ideas, choosing which sort of story to tell.
Testing different arrangements.
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Trying different color schemes.
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Detailed studies to practice before putting them in the final painting.
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