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Zolan's Children Collection -- "For You" by artist Donald Zolan.
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Zolan's Children Collection -- "For You" by artist Donald Zolan. Fourth issue in this series. Viletts China Company, 1981. Plate size approx 8.5 inches. Suggested Retail $65.00
We don't have to be grownups to know the joy of giving. Even a baby can do it. A baby can give a smile and see his mother's face light up in return. We learn the fun of giving early.
When I thought of doing a painting on this, I always ran into the same problem. I thought I had to show both the child giving the gift and the person getting it. I prefer showing just one person in a painting. It's harder to tell a story with just one person, but it does make the painting much simplier and stronger.
Then one day it occurred to me I might be able to show just the giver in the painting, just the child. The mind's eye could create the person getting the gift.
The painting went very well at first. Everything was right on target. In a landscape you can be two inches off with a tree or a barn and no one will notice. In a closeup of a face, you can't be a sixteenth of an inch off anywhere. The tip of the nose, the corners of the lips, the pupils of the eyes,everything has to be right where it belongs. In this respect, "For You" went beautifully right from the start.
But something wasn't right. The little girl still hadn't come alive. Small children are hard to paint because all their features are softly formed. I had to go back and soften every line. I took out detail after detail and opened the eyes a little more. I almost totally painted out some shadows.
Then I looked at it a new way. The skin of a lot of children, especially fair children, is almost translucent. It soaks up light and radiates it back out. In the painting, I had the sunlight falling on the little girl's face. I decided to forget how it was falling and concentrate instead on how it was radiating from her skin. Her face began to take on a glow, and it was that glow that brought her alive, that showed the absolute joy she felt in offering her bunch of daisies to someone she cared about.
When I was done, I was pleased with "For You." Others seemed to like it too. But what pleased me most was one woman's comment, "It almost brought tears to my eyes for a minute. This is just how my daughter used to look when she brought me something she'd made. I thank Zolan for letting me remember." Suddenly I myself felt the joy of giving.
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