Day Three: Monday: The drawing at the home of the Gaghen's.

It's Monday and our day has us lined up to draw in five locations.  Carolina at the Aldrich Art Museum has done a brilliant job of sending us organized emails that break down how every minute of our day will look.  For the most part, our days are broken into two hour chunks at each location, with a pinpoint accurate fifteen minutes to make it from one location to the next.  Our day starts in the house of the Gaghens'.

What a beautiful home.  Our quick tour revealed that they had not been there for too many years and were still establishing their design groove.  Young children were the catalyst for rooms to be turned into wonderlands and we found ourselves attracted to a warmly lit living room environment.  The most prominently displayed artwork in the space was a Ben and Gerry inspired print of cows which was a fond artifact from her time in Vermont.  Looking around the room though revealed a pair of really cool woman's cowboy boots, and a tiny metal statuette of a cowboy.  A short adjoining hallway had a large surface which seemed ripe for a largeish animal and with no fear of being too literal we settled into that large animal being one of the cows from the print.  With a cow loose inside, we brought the cowboy spirit to the families youngest potential wranglers, and using photos did our best to make portraits of the two children wielding lassos.  Butterfly nets are intrinsically funny and we decided it would be good to include one of these net-baring persons as a back-up for the children in case they failed to capture this roving bovine.  Cowboy hats were loosely distributed to some of the figures as a nod to the family photographs and statuettes on the mantle.

The tape looked particularly nice on the colour of paint they had chosen for their living room.