Fearless Girls is a painting by Susan Shie which was uploaded on November 27th, 2017.
Fearless Girls
Fearless Girls painting on cloth, airbrushed, written on with airpen and paint markers. sewn. 60h x 48w. Begun 2-29-17, fin wished 3-8-17. This is... more
by Susan Shie
Buy the Original Painting
Price
$30,000
Dimensions
48.000 x 60.000 inches
This original painting is currently for sale. At the present time, originals are not offered for sale through the Deck the Walls secure checkout system. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original.
Click here to contact the artist.
Title
Fearless Girls
Artist
Susan Shie
Medium
Painting - Painting On Cloth, Art Quilt
Description
"Fearless Girls" painting on cloth, airbrushed, written on with airpen and paint markers. sewn. 60"h x 48"w. Begun 2-29-17, fin wished 3-8-17. This is about the Women's March on Washington of January 21, 2017, which I attended with my friends from Wooster Ohio, riding a bus full of 52 Resistance marchers.
When my friend Kat Gibbons sent me a link to see the story of Fearless Girl, the statue, on the morning of March 8, International Women's Day, 2017, I fell in love with that statue and knew she would be the focus of my Women's March painting. I drew her freehand over and over for hours, then painted her late into the night.
I began the painting with her, then added Hillary behind her, and us marchers under her, wearing the aprons I'd painted for us to wear in Washington. Then I added the Capitol Dome, with Eleanor Roosevelt as the Statue of Freedom, who stands on top of the dome.
I wrote the first verse of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin" on it in big letters, crediting the author, of course.
I sewed it into an art quilt, and it's the Queen of Potholders (coins or blessings) in my Kitchen Tarot deck. (I started that in 1998 and still have about 16 of the 78 cards to make paintings of!) I hope to finish the full Kitchen Tarot deck by 2024. :)
If you order prints from this drawing, please note that some of the sizes crop the edges of the print more, because of different print sizes being different proportions. Check out how the drawing looks as a print in all the sizes, before you make your selection.
Uploaded
November 27th, 2017