The painting is complete!

You might be asking, “what painting?” Started back in October, this thing has been sitting in my office waiting for me to get back to it for months! I’m so excited that it’s done and am working on getting it put in a floating frame for our house.

It’s been a time of uncertainty for our housing situation lately. The owner of the rental home we are living in has decided to put the house on the market. We don’t have a crystal ball to know how long that would take or if the buyer will allow us to stay a bit longer until our own house is ready.

We will probably move to a furnished apartment at the beginning July, but we’re waiting to see. It turns out that when you are undecided, unsure, lacking in firm direction, you feel more stress. Who’da thunk?

In my packing and organizing, I’m trying to get as much done now as I can, knowing that when we move into our house it’ll be September and I’ll have other things to work on. So the 2 paintings just sitting there unfinished have been bothering me.

The canvas is 72″x48.”

The kitchen backsplash tile there is what I wanted to match. This painting is meant to be in our breakfast area, next to the kitchen.

It ended up being a combination of Golden Anthraquinone Blue, Golden Titanium White, with a bit of grey thrown in. I began with the darkest shade and incrementally added more of the white as I layered it.

Originally, I tried pasting some gold and silver foil in the first or second layer.

It was difficult to keep blending and mixing without the colors drying! I would work on one end of the canvas at a time.

Added white to give it a shape. That’s where I left it for 7 months.

Last week, I’d had a couple of days where I felt everything very intensely. It didn’t take much to get right to my core.

At one point on Wednesday, I just got sick of all the, well, feeling! I marched right up to the painting and just began. It’s hard to have so many things unsettled and incomplete and I wanted just one fewer.

I added many more words and phrases that resonate with me.

I felt it was just shy of done but wanted to add another dimension. The gold was the perfect touch.

My grandmother’s favorite book was The Little Prince.

I love it! You should know that it looks much more magnificent in person.