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Bella Donna "I feel that clothing reflects the spiritual side of an individual." This was painted as an homage to Raphael and Picasso with it's Picassoesque face as well as to Mrs.Cooper. It was in a Gallery in San Jose, CA in '98 that my Bella Donna was hanging next to a Dali. That was exciting for my Father to see.
This is a painting also based on a photo of Mrs. Cooper.
Here in Monterey the Cooper-Molera Adobe was built in the late 1820's by J.B.R. Cooper, an immigrant American ship captain and trader who had married into an important local family. The Cooper-Molera Adobe depicts mid-1800 life in California through a three-acre complex of main house and farm buildings, with living history demonstrations, farm animals and historic gardens.
this painting was drawn free-hand onto paper then gridded and transfered to a much larger painting surface, so it was drawn twice prior to painting it. It is also named after the Yacht the Hollien's owned named "Pretty Lady." (Private Collection of Robert Goodwin, descendant of Mrs.Cooper)
Here is the first drawing. The second one is beneath the paint.
I was looking at The Weeping Woman as my modern role-model or precurser and wanted to depict something of a woman at peace rather than weeping. So I also looked to Rapheal Sanzio.
Detail:
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