In continuing my awe of the octopi, I did this small sculpture for ReCreate, an exhibit/auction in Winnipeg put on by my friend, Amber.

Done in haste, as most of my exhibited material unfortunately has been lately, I named it Paint It Black… just because as I scrambled from one place to the next carrying my art materials with me over the past few weeks, the Rolling Stones song of the same name came on two separate radio stations in two different cities. That, and when I asked the dearest three-year-old to my heart if he’d help me paint the yet-untitled octopus, he surprised me by saying, “Paint it black!” Still, we didn’t. I went with vibrant orange and yellows instead, but applying the antiquing solution dulled the vibrance right out of it and I was at a loss on how to get it to stand out against the brighter colored sea shell.

Ah-ha!

“Paint it black!”