THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER (Knight)

THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER (Knight) 2013 Acrylic on Canvas Board by Roopa Dudley (SOLD)

Several months ago, I was asked to do a  painting on commission. My client wanted a large Oyster Shell Painting for her new house she plans on getting built on a water front property in North Carolina. She brought me a few Oyster Shells for inspiration and to be used as reference along with a page from a magazine that inspired her to commission me to do a painting for her.

I basically sat on it for a few months as she was not in a hurry and I was not inspired to even touch the canvas with a ten foot pole. One Spring day as I put in one of my old Compact Disk in, an old song One Night In Bangkok came up (which is an official Chess Song in case you did not know) and it is then when the gears in my mind started to turn rapidly and I found myself inspired. The same day I also came across an equally inspiring article by my favorite Art Business Writer Alan Bamberger: http://www.artbusiness.com/art-artists-bigotry-hate-and-thomas-kinkade.html. The combination of both experiences did something to me and hence gave birth to this idea. My first in series - a small prototype for her to see if she liked the way I interpreted her Oyster. It looked much different from the painting she showed me in that torn page from the magazine. I did not add my Chess-Knight yet as she wanted no part of Chess in the commissioned painting.

When she saw the painting I made, she absolutely loved it. I told her instead of the World, I would put a nice lustrous Pearl and she was fine with that idea. I added my distinguished Chess-Knight as soon as I got a head's up from her and this my friends is how I ended up with one of my most favorite paintings. Just by sheer accident. Something I would have never thought of painting at all and how one thing leads to another. That is why it is always good to have an open mind - especially for an Artist.