Over the last couple of months I put in a lot of hours working on my website. I also started a new job, kept my family running, and took care of a lot of animals! I suppose it’s no wonder I stopped painting for a while. I will continue to tweak the site but it’s live and working now. So I can resume painting.

Or so I said.

It wasn’t so easy to get my groove back. I painted a board full of sketches of my house in different conditions. It took me three weeks. I was unfocused, and honestly, so were my sketches. They weren’t terrible but they needed clarity. It became clear that I wasn’t clear.

For me, and I would venture for most artists, the state of your inner self is reflected on the canvas. But I can also say that putting brush to canvas anyway, even when you are not fully there, or you feel like a mess, is likely to eventually bring you back around. For me painting is a healing therapy and also a beautiful foreign language. I always try to speak more eloquently than before. And when I succeed, there is not much that is better.

So in the last few days, I started a 36x 36 canvas again. If all goes well it will be lovely. So far so good.

Today I visited a couple of galleries and who knows, maybe my work will be seen and appreciated in ever-widening circles. 😀😉

I am thankful that I see and feel these things and that what I do has resonance at least for some. I am thankful that my talent didn’t die while I built a website but was simply in need of a little water and sunshine.

I’m back on my game. Watch for new pieces on my website. :😉. Have a very happy holiday and stay safe out there.