Normal Heights, it's weirder than you think Painting

Normal Heights was our home away from home, it is where we were living during our two-year adventure in California. This is the first in a series of nine paintings, in which I wanted to paint California how I like it. If you have followed my work, then you know that there’s always a little twist to what I paint. So of course, the twist to “Normal Heights” is that it’s actually not entirely normal. There’s a bunch of un-normal, weird little things going on here. I was not a huge fan of starting this series by painting the ‘Normal Heights’ street sign. My hubby really likes it, but I couldn’t quite see the un-normal twist in it. After I struggled with the idea for a couple of days, suddenly an idea came knocking. I remembered the California grizzly bear that’s painted on a building on Adams Avenue, and which is also part of the flag of California. I realised: this is it, this is the twist I needed, the California grizzly bear crossing the street. The last thing I want to mention is the propeller plane that’s zipping through the sky. We don’t actually see them a lot here in Normal Heights (they can be seen taking off from a little airport a few Kilometers north from here) but I wanted to include it because this was one of my dreams: I wanted to fly around San Diego on a prop plane before we'd leave. And we did, a few months after I finished this painting.

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:14.2 W x 20.1 H x 0 D in

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