Half Woman Half Biscuit (585)

"Half Woman Half Biscuit (585)",  30x40" (76.2x101.6 cm), oil on canvas. For sale on Etsy.

"It's Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas" by Half Man Half Biscuit isn't exactly my new "jam", but I did listen to it for the first time while making this painting. I made a Pandora station to listen to some related music as well. (A song about office swivel chairs was especially entertaining.) I found the song when I searched the people I follow on Twitter for someone mentioning the word "biscuit". I wanted to make a painting about "Biscuit", color #585 in Naomi Kuno's Colorscapes book. She's probably referring to the British definition of "biscuit", cookies. I can't shake the American version of biscuits... you know, biscuits... Anyway, I couldn't think of anything very interesting to paint in either case. So as I have done several times before, I just went ahead and painted the tweet itself, in a thought bubble (sort of Roy Lichtenstein-like). This gave me a new excuse for a self-portrait.

I hope that "Half Biscuit" doesn't mean anything bad. I didn't bother to Google it this time. I'm actually trying to do more of my art research offline whenever possible. I'm backing away from the internet just a little bit.