Sophia is one of our goddaughters, and her favorite stuffed animal is Lamby. Lamby’s now super worn down with love. For Christmas, I decided to give Sophia an idealized painting of Lamby that could also be a painting of Jesus.
In the run up to making it, I’d been obsessed with Bonnard’s palettes and composition, while Sophia had fallen in love with Van Gogh’s Starry Night, so I tried to jam those influences together. I also knew that the painting had to shimmer with purples, Sophia’s favorite color.
The result is serene and delightful. Painted in acrylics.