Mockbeggar Hall: Oil Painting

Mockbeggar Hall

I just finished Gregory Maguire’s Out of Oz, which was magnificent.

I did a couple of drawings of Mockbeggar Hall, Glinda’s pink stucco country mansion. I started imagining a low pink German Rococo building, and painted this version as a kind of tall French Second Empire city mansion out in the country flanked by symmetrical attached barns. Then I changed my mind again about how it looked. Maybe I’ll do a Palladian version.