Gypsy Wagon Sleeping Nook... Take Two...
Some of you, Dear Readers, might recall the Gypsy Wagons and might, with reason, wonder if they would ever get worked on again, let alone completed. And it would even be reasonable to think that they are so small... what could possibly take so long to finish them? (Yes, "them"; there are two wagons, each with a distinctive decor and history.) And both incomplete! The above picture shows the second wagon, which quickly took on some extra characteristics that made it a bit more complicated (and more interesting!) with its body mostly taken apart. You know almost nothing is glued together yet! This wagon had to have an extra window in the rear wall, and also an entire "menagerie" built onto the back wall. For the goats and chickens, of course!
And these menagerie compartments were desperately dark
and in need of some "airier" coloring.
So I started with the primer on the interiors.
And of course, while waiting for the primer to dry,
I decided that now might be the right time to paint
the underside of the sleeping compartment too!
The sleeping compartment at the rear of the wagons
is high enough to allow for another sleeping area beneath it,
like a bunk bed, but enclosed like the upper one.
It is darker and lower, and I assume
it would be the sleeping space for children.
You might remember the lower area of the first gypsy wagon,
painted a long time ago (look it up in the blog list at right)
and you might remember that the Gypsy child, Rowena,
grew up alone with her father in that wagon.
But when she became a young woman,
she had to go live in her Grandmother's wagon instead.
This would now be her sleeping space,
no longer a child, but not yet grown up.
In the above picture you can see the walls
were painted pale green a long time ago.
It only remained to decorate them.
Of course, it begins with a soft green grass...
for the sweetness of love...
And a white rabbit...
(because Time is passing...)
Or three....
(because, Time.... you know, does not stand still)
And we mustn't forget the thorns!
Because Life is no longer so simple...
Or the leaves....
To hide among...
every bunny needs a place of refuge!
And surely we want to see what it looks like all together...
(I apologize for the dark shot...
a thunderstorm had rolled in...)
Here you can see the flash turned on...
Here you see the compartment wall also in place,
with the upper and lower spaces and their doors open.
And lest we forget, the menagerie interiors
have also been painted inside, a lovely sky blue.
But that is not all, Dear Readers,
you must know that I can't leave a ceiling unpainted...
So the following morning I continued the roses..
onto the underside of the upper bed compartment.
(There is also a pull-out table section, but I painted it too!)
Here the platform is removed while I painted it.
Here you can see it from below with all the walls together,
as if you are lying under the roses...
And because I was painting things....
I decided to (Finally!) finish the painting
on the walls of the upper compartment too.
What was missing, you ask?
Well, really just a couple of owls!
Here I have under-painted the shapes.
Here the Saw-whet Owl is done
(I know, it is a too dark shot!)
And the Common Screech Owl too.
And then I had to sprinkle a few stars across the dark night sky...
And can we see it all together....
Of course, it becomes difficult to see
and difficult to photograph...
But it is supposed to be the night sky!
And it is getting late again...
And I have been following white rabbits, Dear Readers,
into thorns and roses...
and listening to the owls
begin to call in the night sky!
