Commando Cleaning
Commando Cleaning
40 x 30
2005/#3
This painting is the first in a series of several. I will eventually get to the others, Commando Cooking (completed 2007), Commando Cold, Bando-commando, and Commando Gardening. For now, I have tackled the ever-present stay at home mom task of cleaning the bathroom, Rambo style. This character appears in Reality TV as well which was painted the year before while she was pregnant. (â¦the character people, not me!). If one has to swab the swirler, it might as well be entertaining. She is armed and ready for active duty.
Look around for the military references. A grenade tops the toilet paper holder, a pistol acts as the door handle, and a target is drawn on the duckie with lipstick. She takes aim at the light now covered by one of those plastic parachute army men that we played with as kids and threw off the stairs to make it float. Three times and the crazy thing would be hopelessly tangled. Bubbles float from the sink. Not sure why the toilet sits in the middle of the room but I needed it there for the right pose to work. The scale of course functions as a towel rack (Nobody really uses it for a scale do they?),
She is wearing a bandolier made from the waistband of an old pair of jeans and scout socks on her feet, my personal reference in this piece. As I said at some point, all my paintings have something personal in them somewhere. Her viewfinder is made of a coat hanger and a discarded bubble blower.
40 x 30
2005/#3
This painting is the first in a series of several. I will eventually get to the others, Commando Cooking (completed 2007), Commando Cold, Bando-commando, and Commando Gardening. For now, I have tackled the ever-present stay at home mom task of cleaning the bathroom, Rambo style. This character appears in Reality TV as well which was painted the year before while she was pregnant. (â¦the character people, not me!). If one has to swab the swirler, it might as well be entertaining. She is armed and ready for active duty.
Look around for the military references. A grenade tops the toilet paper holder, a pistol acts as the door handle, and a target is drawn on the duckie with lipstick. She takes aim at the light now covered by one of those plastic parachute army men that we played with as kids and threw off the stairs to make it float. Three times and the crazy thing would be hopelessly tangled. Bubbles float from the sink. Not sure why the toilet sits in the middle of the room but I needed it there for the right pose to work. The scale of course functions as a towel rack (Nobody really uses it for a scale do they?),
She is wearing a bandolier made from the waistband of an old pair of jeans and scout socks on her feet, my personal reference in this piece. As I said at some point, all my paintings have something personal in them somewhere. Her viewfinder is made of a coat hanger and a discarded bubble blower.