I've made some exciting progress on my latest fox painting this week! Woohoo!

And what a journey this one has been.

I began with a vision of something abstract, atmospheric, and mysterious, inspired by my earlier painting Where Dreams Bloom

There's a saying in the art world that sometimes you have to be willing to kill your darlings.

A rather morbid expression, don't you think? But yesterday afternoon, that's exactly what I had to do.

As I contimued working on my dreamy fox painting, I became overly committed to the beautiful purple flower in the upper right corner. I loved the flower, the colors, and all those wonderful little marks I’d made surrounding it.