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Grandma's paintings
The smell of paint and oil is always present at my grandmother’s house. Althought sometimes is annoying, seeing her face painting with entusiasm is worth it. Her inspiration for her art is extrange, she always find different things to make. Maybe a landscape, an exotic animal or just a representation of what she is feeling could be her next masterpiece. One of her biggest treasures are her brushes and painting materials, she has two sets, one in her house and one in the solarium. The solarium is her favorite place to paint, she can see all the landscape through the huge windows of the room. The solarium is not that big, but the incredible windows make it look spacious and perfect as an inspirational place, there is where she have painted the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. No matter how the weather is, or the time, could be midnight, could be 6 AM or any hour, if an idea for a painting comes to her, she starts making what she loves. On vacations I stayed in her house for a week, and one day I stood at the middle of the night, and I went to the kitchen for a glass of water and I saw her, with her eyes more open than ever painting a beautiful landscape with many trees, an incredible evening in the sky and a great big river across the woods; I was amazed by her energy at that hour. Which is my favorite painting? I am never sure of this, but the paintwork that has created the greatest impact on me is a tiger. The painting show all the little details of the tiger, every single hair is painted in the color it should be, the ears and the jaws are perfectly painted. Bizarre can be a word that describe some artwork of my grams, one example is her selfportrait, it was herself standing on a dessert with two circles around her representing her favorite and worst moments in her whole life, the bizarre thing is how she refresent herself. Her artwork has never been in sale, she don’t care if someone likes it or not, if someone want to buy it or not, the opinion of others don’t bother her, but she is not dumb, if someone offer her a good price for her work, she would sell them without any thought.
