I guess I wasn't done with Juneteenth or with Miss Opal Lee; and this one came together pretty effortlessly. I wanted to incorporate the colors that represent Juneteenth, which are red, yellow, green, and black, so I did a tricolor stripe across the wet page as the underlayer. My original plan was to paint around the figure with black gesso once I was done with everything else, so that the other colors only appeared in the figure; but once I was done I decided that would be too dark, and anyway I liked what the colors were doing around the edges.
The saying is not something (that I am aware) that Opal Lee specifically said; but it's definitely true, given the persistence with which she has spoken up to get our government to recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday.
"Juneteenth Opal"—Daler Rowney inks, pencil, watercolors, Uniball pen, Signo white gel pen, on Fluid 140-lb. coldpress watercolor paper, 9x12 inches.
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