Stillness

So...been working on family issues lately and not really able to work BUT today have tucked myself behind a closed door in my happy place.  My music is playing and comfortably, in my $39.99 Ikea chair, am in my muse state just believing in the beautiful and the real, feeling the love that I receive from the process of art and hoping that I am able to share that emotion.

I have finished "Stillness," and signed it:

It's hanging in the kitchen so that I can take it in each morning to perhaps touch it up here and there as I see fit.  It's got a nice sheen in the last layers since I used a special glazing medium that really enhanced the pigment an kind of sealed the paint to the canvas.  I notice there's a lot of yellow in the upper half, left side however I think the paint caught the flash of the camera there and it is not so light, however that is something I will be resolving today.

So onto a new canvas which already has about 22 layers of paint onto which I just added another creating a neutral background, next step is sketching and then the magical creating brain takes over.  That's when I breathe, 1-2-3, breathe, 1-2-3, breathe...lol.

Here she is after adding a couple of brushstrokes this morning.