New Painting: “My Prayer For You”

Introducing “My Prayer For You” – 9″ x 12″, acrylics on gallery-wrapped stretched canvas  – SOLD

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I started with layers of dark blue and purple washes before taking my homemade snowflake stencils out again – those I created for “Divine Union“.

I had been looking forward to playing with those some more.

This time, I used iridescent paints to create the designs in the four corners, in different colours, overlapping each other. I then spent hours decorating these with dots before adding the fifth stencil on top in blue.

I then got on my rebounder to dance a few songs while contemplating it, asking how it wanted to evolve.  That’s when I saw in my mind’s eye the little angel that my housemate Orinda has on the kitchen table.  The day before, she had put it on the Canadian Tire flyer to point out the table on sale for me.  So I went to get her (the angel, not Orinda) and kept sketching until I had stylized her in my fashion.  From there, I traced her onto the canvas, painted her, and decorated her.

The cool thing about Golden Interference paints is that they change colours or appear/disappear depending on the light / angle.  If you look at these two photos below, they were both taken at the final stage of the painting.  You can’t see the blue iridescent shadows on her lap and in the creases of her dress in the photo on the left.  But they appear on the photo on the right, photographed from a different angle.  Cool eh?

As I looked up from the other paintings I’ve started working on, I would see her on the wall and smile every time.  She just filled my heart with joy.  She emanates with a simple iridescent beauty, and her prayers are filled with a love that feel quite palpable to me.

Can you feel it?

P.S.

It felt so good to be painting again this weekend after a couple of weeks of working at the computer.  I had a business proposal, grant submission, guest blog post, newsletter, tax return, and curriculum development project to work on. There’s so much more to being an artist than painting…

There’s a new addition in the studio. I purchased a 6-foot table that folds in half for easy carrying / storage. Although I’ll still gladly sit cross-legged on the floor for the first very watery layers of some canvases, I’ve learned to be more careful about my posture. I don’t want to repeat last year’s back issues.

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