“Into the Unknown” feels like my flagship artwork. It feels like all my hopes and dreams on a canvas.
I started out just wanting to put the trees (#foreshadowing. Yes, you only see one.) in my reference photo on the canvas, make it pretty, and get it sold.\
But then the painting toooook me.
I sketched the trees (two of them) but then the girls wanted to paint (note the CJ. & C. in the signature) I had some left over paint from a different piece, so I let them spray all the water and scrub all the colors on while I sat there SO stressed out that the might get paint on the carpet, on them, or on me… oh wait, I already got paint on myself…
I put their wet canvas on my easel for the next day, trying not to think about it too much. It looked like a rainbowy mess and stressed me out thinking how to move forward from there.
That underpainting was 100% my life at the time.
In my head, up until that point, I’d felt like I was living a lie. I thought I understood the changes in my life around me, but because things weren’t falling the way or speed I thought they would, I started feeling crazy, inadequate, powerless, and just plain wrong.
How did I move forward?
I laid down beauty.
I didn’t try to change the under painting (past), but I took inspiration from it (rainbow colors) and just made something beautiful. I didn’t get caught up in what it looked like, and I didn’t worry about how to get there. How could I know? I’d never been there before!
There were some ups and downs in the process, but by the end I was struuuuck. Never had I been so satisfied and at peace deciding that a painting was done. Then Claire, the 4 year-old, walked in and said, “Woah. Mama I think that painting is just perfect!” She’d neeeever said anything that way before and I think it’ll be living in my head rent free for the rest of my life.
Now may you fly on wings like eagles’ (or flamingos) into the glorious unknown, undeterred by the mess around you, only concerned with creating something new, something real, something beautiful.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Yes, flamingos fly. My 4 year old told me and I am now educating you. It looks awkward as all get-out, but those birds flyyyy!
INTO THE UNKNOWN
30” x 40” Acrylic on canvas
1.5” Edges are painted to continue the image all the way to the wall, making framing optional.
Shipped ready to hang.
Free domestic shipping. International shipping billed separately.
10% of all proceeds go to Set Free Monterey Bay
“Into the Unknown” feels like my flagship artwork. It feels like all my hopes and dreams on a canvas.
I started out just wanting to put the trees (#foreshadowing. Yes, you only see one.) in my reference photo on the canvas, make it pretty, and get it sold.\
But then the painting toooook me.
I sketched the trees (two of them) but then the girls wanted to paint (note the CJ. & C. in the signature) I had some left over paint from a different piece, so I let them spray all the water and scrub all the colors on while I sat there SO stressed out that the might get paint on the carpet, on them, or on me… oh wait, I already got paint on myself…
I put their wet canvas on my easel for the next day, trying not to think about it too much. It looked like a rainbowy mess and stressed me out thinking how to move forward from there.
That underpainting was 100% my life at the time.
In my head, up until that point, I’d felt like I was living a lie. I thought I understood the changes in my life around me, but because things weren’t falling the way or speed I thought they would, I started feeling crazy, inadequate, powerless, and just plain wrong.
How did I move forward?
I laid down beauty.
I didn’t try to change the under painting (past), but I took inspiration from it (rainbow colors) and just made something beautiful. I didn’t get caught up in what it looked like, and I didn’t worry about how to get there. How could I know? I’d never been there before!
There were some ups and downs in the process, but by the end I was struuuuck. Never had I been so satisfied and at peace deciding that a painting was done. Then Claire, the 4 year-old, walked in and said, “Woah. Mama I think that painting is just perfect!” She’d neeeever said anything that way before and I think it’ll be living in my head rent free for the rest of my life.
Now may you fly on wings like eagles’ (or flamingos) into the glorious unknown, undeterred by the mess around you, only concerned with creating something new, something real, something beautiful.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Yes, flamingos fly. My 4 year old told me and I am now educating you. It looks awkward as all get-out, but those birds flyyyy!
INTO THE UNKNOWN
30” x 40” Acrylic on canvas
1.5” Edges are painted to continue the image all the way to the wall, making framing optional.
Shipped ready to hang.
Free domestic shipping. International shipping billed separately.
10% of all proceeds go to Set Free Monterey Bay
