Finding my way to joy
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
Apparently, the bears didn't get the memo!
I follow my intuition quite a bit when I paint, but I honestly can't remember another painting that has evolved quite like this one.
Usually, I begin with at least a vague idea of what I want to create.
This time, I had absolutely no intention beyond having fun experimenting with abstract marks, colors, and textures.
In fact, I thought it might eventually become a botanical abstract.
But when I returned to the painting the following day, I noticed the faint suggestion of a …
Well, that wasn't part of the plan!
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.