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I, Jacqueline, draw pictures that tell stories. Sometimes, I will do what I call doodling. These are my abstracts and my adult coloring book pages. Many abstract pictures I color are turned into transfer sheets for clothes and things. The colors are brilliant! My own world is brilliant! I see brilliance in a lot of things others overlook!
Faces fascinate me most because they tell the greatest stories. Bodies are beautiful too, but seldom say as much as faces do. When I look people in their faces, I can come up with all kinds of... "Wonder what his/her life is like?" I love to write stories, poems and draw stories. I'm praying others will see picture stories they can relate to and place them on their walls. Some of Floyd's, my husband, work contain my poems to tell the story of the photograph.
Pictures I have purchased from other artists do more for me than just decorate a wall. They speak to me of their stories. They make me want to stop and look at them often to relive the stories I saw when I first bought them. For me, this adds another chapter in my mind to the various scenes.
The idea for the "Women in Hats" album came into existence one night at a meeting of local artists in Alpharetta, GA. It was my first meeting and the first time I was considering art as a serious endeavor. I have drawn all my life and earned an art education degree. I only taught art for one and a half years in the 1960's. Instead of continuing to teach, I married, became a mother, and a housewife. Years later, I became a Multicultural Management Consultant for thirty plus years working beside my husband in our own business. Retirement gave both of us an opportunity to see what we could do with our "hobbies."
One of the women at the artists meeting took one look at the work I had completed for "show and tell" and said, "Oh! You are a line artist, like _______ _____ !" I did not recognize the name or the person's working method since I had not kept up with events in the world of art. However, it sounded good to me, so I agreed with her assignment of me. After the meeting she caught up with me and asked, "May I make a suggestion to you?"
"Please," I replied.
"Why don't you do a series of women wearing hats? I think that would be hot."
I looked in her eyes, being the only Black person in the meeting, to see if I detected any malice or prejudice.
"I know Black women love hats and that could be an exciting series collection," she added.
I realized she was excited about her idea and was truly trying to help me get started on something I might like to show and enjoy. Another, woman standing nearby who overheard the conversation, interjected, "A lot of White women like hats, too."
I could only laugh. I thanked my mentor and returned home with the idea firmly implanted in my mind. That is how I began drawing the series; I have many more women in hats pictures that sooner or later my husband will add to the album. Keep watching. In the future there will be other "story pictures" posted, alone or in albums. Stay with us. Hopefully, one day Floyd's and my picture stories will catch your imagination; you will then want to own some of them and add your own extra chapters.
Lilburn GA,