{"id":1847,"date":"2008-07-25T04:51:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T08:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2012-09-16T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T05:43:11","slug":"moen-kopi-notel-digital-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1847\/moen-kopi-notel-digital-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stage Series of Digital Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMoen Kopi Notel (Click on image for overlay enlargement.)
\nApprox 30 by 20 inches, digital painting
\n2008 by J Kearns<\/i><\/p>\n

Detail.<\/p>\n

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Click here for all posts in “The Stage” series.<\/a><\/p>\n

Been working on this since June. Tried doing it with the dress in blue, like the sky, but I missed the jungle\/garden print of the model’s original dress. It seemed right. Took way too long painting it in but I think it was needed.<\/p>\n

The motel was one we passed by in Holbrook, Arizona last spring. I had wondered at the hopeful message on the sign pointing to a new life and what if anything it had to do with the motel being shut down and boarded up.<\/p>\n

For the painting, I liked the emotional ambiguity of the model who may or may not have anything to do with Moen Kopi. A woman in her garden print dress.<\/p>\n

We spent a couple of days in Holbrook about 15 years ago and because of some brochures I’d seen I placed a scene in the Penguin book in the area.<\/p>\n

I could be wrong but I don’t imagine that Holbrook has changed much during those 15 years…<\/p>\n

P.S. Simonroy’s photostream at Flickr has a pic of the Moen Kopi<\/a> in better times (2005) when it was still a motel and not yet a notel.<\/p>\n

Appreciation is extended to Phoeebstock for stock reference for the model.<\/a> <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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