The comical picture above summarizes well what it can be like to paint in a studio space during the storms of life. We all do our best to ride the wind when we can hold our ground when we must!

I created this miniature oil painting to interpret John Singer Sargent’s “ Blonde Model.” I aimed to convey a light effect similar to the painting he created but to let loose while I painted and disappear while I sorted out the colors in my own experience. It isn’t very easy to develop a sensation-based painting while being heavily analytical. Not that either process is separate from the other…. but enjoying the intensity of creating a painting while being free in connection to the subject is an indescribable experience. The sense of balance I experience is like nothing I’ve ever felt.

Cheers to balance, living through storms, and learning to enjoy it all.