Monday, September 17, 2012

New Direction in Oil

"Prelude to a Fox Hunt"
6" x 6"
oil on Raymar canvasboard
for sale at ETSY HERE

I have been waiting to 'feel a change' in my art for some time.  My thinking takes me to a place in my mind where I know what I want to do, I have not had that breakthrough until late yesterday ~ this powerful need has been consuming me for at least a decade.  I think this is the one I have been pushing for - it is my springboard.  I have dreamt about it, I imagined it, I just couldn't get it to come out.  It's a genre that I had difficulty expressing.  I hope to get really involved in it - make it a commitment, a goal.
It's what I want to do with my ART. 

Does that happen to you?  Perhaps this made it's way to the canvas for me, through an encouragement I recently was given by another artist through a lengthy conversation we had, in addition to that angst I mentioned above (and yes, I had reallly been wrestling with this).   Her words basically, "Let it go, see where it takes you." 
So here goes...

4 comments:

myra anderson said...

this is absolutely beautiful!

Leann said...

That leap took you to a wonderful place. I can't wait to see what happens next!

Pattie Wall said...

Back in the studio today, hoping for another round of this...ha!

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