“She Came From Planet Claire” (Portrait of Sarah Ovenall and George…)
12″x11″
pastel, watercolor, and pencil
2017
Having discovered that my website doesn’t “work” on an i-phone, I was (as has been the case over at least 11 years) utterly dismayed and confused…..until my ever-canny webmistress, Sarah Ovenall suddenly flew in to save the day. If it weren’t for Sarah, I wouldn’t even have a website. In gratitude, I sat down yesterday afternoon and finished the attached portrait. The title, mais bien sur, is “She Came From Planet Clare”. I happen to love Sarah (who’s the most imaginative person I know, and I MEAN that); she has, over the years, saved my under-equipped and under-informed ass more times than I can recall. She also can knit a mean praying-mantis if you ask her nicely. So…..”Portrait of Sarah and George; pencil, watercolor, and pencil; 12″x10″.
“She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head.
Ahhhahhhahhahh
Some say she’s from Mars
Or one of the seven stars
That shine after 3:30 in the morning.
BUT SHE ISN’T
—-The B-52’s, 1981