Mary Reid | Spring Break | Oil on paper | 2004

This painting is based on a photograph I took last summer near Aspen, Colarado.  My partner was attending an arts workshop at Anderson Ranch, and I was spending lots of time in the hotel with my sketchbook, MTV and a digital camera.  I cut these "girls" out of a page in my sketchbook, made little boats for them, and took them down to the hotel pool.  My goal was to photograph them without anyone asking me what I thought I was doing.  I like the idea of painting photographs of drawings.