My Wish For You

This holiday season be humble, be grateful, be prayerful.

Some artists amazingly can complete a work in one day while others take years. Monet worked on his six large water lily canvases for 11 years. I understand the desire to produce and struggle to maintain perspective. It's easy to forget to keep it light and fun and I start to stress when I don't like what I've done. However, I always want to be able to lose myself in the paint and escape with the colors.

Here is step one of a painting that I recently started. We'll call the technique gouache. Actually, I just watered down acrylics and used 140 lb. cold press paper. I'll try not to be pressured to finish it before I'm ready. Maybe it will be fun and interesting for you to watch its progression.