Passing Through Metal Print

metal prints nature metal prints figures metal prints woman metal prints man metal prints forest metal prints relaxed metal prints walking metal prints beauty metal prints peace metal prints light metal prints

paintings nature paintings figures paintings woman paintings man paintings forest paintings relaxed paintings walking paintings beauty paintings peace paintings light paintings

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

I was passing through a particularly grindy time, the night I painted this one. Everything in me was beyond blurry, and boy, would I have loved to find the fast forward button that leaps life to a place up the road where a nice long sleeeeeeeep welcomes one into her arms! 3 am prowling is fine and dandy, but a sweet soft deeeep sleep,,,mmmmm. But, well, you know,,,,one doesn't always find that magic button, and after awhile it's just time to get up off the couch and find that paintbrush.

Here's a little oil sketch of two friends I love. Thank you art! Thank you life, with all your boulders! Your trying times remind me of the gentleness that's here too, hiding, breathing, cavorting in the wings.

About a year ago now, something wonderful happened. I'd been going through an increasingly challenging time with my health, which has been a major teacher in my life, and was being brought to my knees by the experience. When my dear friend and partner Fred encouraged me to take up art, I was touched by an excitement that was like a thousand smiles singing inside me! I've always been an adventurous one,,, artistic, musical, and a great lover of spontaneous play. For much of my life, I've made my living as a luthier, specializing in unusual, made-up violin family instruments, as well as a whole host of flutes, harps, marimbas, tile-a-phones, etc. etc. But until last year, I'd never spent much time with a paintbrush, or let myself be...