A Longing for Sedona

Well, in this time period of little art and no posts, my family has gotten a chance to spend a part of a day in Sedona. It was a very brief time after going to a wedding in Prescott. This painting and exercise from a Cathy Johnson watercolor book that I did recently. I had actually started working on this nearly a year ago, and did not finish it until just a few weeks ago. Cathy Johnson used watercolor pencils in her display and it was book on using watercolor pencils. However, I used Ink Intense pencils which I was unhappy at how they handled. Granted I had not handled them for quite some time, but I was still unhappy with the effect. But the real purpose behind longing to paint this was my earning to be back out in nature and my longing to be back in Sedona more regularly. Although, I am not sure where this painting was based from; it reminds me a great deal of an area that I took a jeep into during a trip in 2005 when I stayed for an extended time in Sedona. This is just a small postcard size rendering. It makes me want to go ahead and make a painting of the true area that I went to that year and see how that one would turn out.

Ocean Mist - A return to art

This journey of child and art has been a long one. The past year was one of great struggle and turmoil as my family had to walk through the beginnings of Epilepsy with our then not quite two year old daughter. It has been very hard to keep up with the art life with many hospitalizations and constant monitoring, medicine changes, and just trying to keep up with everyday life. This past month I have been making an attempt at getting back to my love and joy of art. This first abstract is probably just the release of trying to recapture the peace and tranquility of the ocean those many years that I went to be by its shore. "Ocean Mist" Acrylic 10X10 was just a pure release of energy and process to get back into the space of doing art again. A process of trying to get my mind centered and to calm my soul in order to create again. I hope everyone enjoys this return to art with my new painting.