2025.00 GLOBAL PAINTING CONCLAVE

THEME: Water - Nova Scotia/Canada/online

THE BACK STORY

TITLE: ETHEREAL

          This painting begins as many of my water paintings begin.  I received an image from my muse, Vicki, who herself is a multi-talented, multi-faceted human being.  The simple photo of a white feather holding a single water drop captured my attention.  It sat on my laptop desktop and in my mind’s eye for several weeks before I could put aside other day-to-day matters.  This painting evolved quicker than many of my pieces because I had “mapped” it out in my subconscious long before I began it.  

          I knew the canvas had to be glass smooth to draw the painted lines.  Today there is a medium which goes on thick, dries slowly however as it dries it lays down smooth as glass.  Of, course I was out of mine as was my art supply store.  Because of this hiccup I had to go old school in preparing the canvas for paint.  Instead of an overnight job, the process took me 3 days to begin.  I may paint it again but, unlike AI or digital to change the colors, I stick to traditional.

          The jpg I sent in to this juried international competition was of an incomplete painting.  I thought it was good and entered it on a whelm, to see if I was on tack.  The image in this blog is of the completed painting. 

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

SIZE: 24”x 24” / 60.96cm x 60.96cm