Well, here it is…my last September self portrait. I’m almost sorry to see this month’s theme go–I’ve had an absolute blast, but I am out of ideas for more bathroom pictures, so perhaps it’s just as well. This is our downstairs bathroom, painted in 3 lurid and terrifyingly bright shades of pink by the previous tenants. I hate this bathroom, but on a sunny morning the sunlight through the window makes this room glow, quite literally and quite brightly. We’ve lived in this house for almost 2 years now, and on some mornings I walk down the stairs and am again completely stunned by the cherry-pink glow suffusing the hallway. The brightness of the paint magnifies and reflects the sunlight a thousandfold. And for that, and that alone, I can love this shamelessly effusive color that invades my home. Pink is generally a color I avoid in my clothing and decor, although I feel slightly more charitable about it in my art. In this picture, I am wearing 2 out of the 3 pink items that I own, although between the glow of the sun and the neon pink backdrop, my pastel shirt is rather washed out. I would also like to say that this picture has had very little touch-up–it really is that pink, and that really is all-natural sunlight creating that incredible glow. A little bit of the sunrise captured inside my house every morning…