Drips

Daily Paper Prompt #3: Drips.

I have dying to sit on our patio and enjoy a good monsoon storm this month but the gods are not cooperating. The few storms we have had I have been sitting deep in a restaurant or at the emergency room with dad (no windows) or the storm has bypassed my neighborhood.  I know I'll finally get to experience a good one when I am camping in two weeks!

So anyway, rain must be on my mind because when I saw "Drips" as the prompt I immediately heard the chorus from Donna Summers "MacArthur's Park" song in my head:

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooooo

I grabbed a cake image and overlayed it over some sheet music in photoshop, printed it out and started dripping.  The hard part about working with acrylics for me is waiting for the layers to dry.  This time I was very, very patient and took Saturday and Sunday to make it.  Which worked out because I worked on it in bits and pieces since my husband ended up in the emergency room Saturday night and spent most of Sunday at the hospital. Two trips to the emergency room in a month (one for my dad, one for husband)! 

But I digress...after I got the drips just right, I printed out Donna's words, glued them on, and outlined them.  I'm very happy with the results.  My first drip experience and I would do it again. However, I've had that song stuck in my head ever since!