This past year has been a huge challenge in patience and perseverance (among other things), so why not (I asked myself) start another big, intricate painting?
I don’t know why I do this to myself… But obviously I like a challenge.
I like to set big goals and I don’t like to give up.
(And big challenges create big rewards.)
The canvas I’m working on is 40” x 60” and I wanted to try something a little new… I wanted to make a painting in the same style as I did with Into the Mystic, but in full colour.
So, using one little abstract shape at a time, I'm slowly working my way up and across the canvas... to create the whole image of the forest.
It’s like doing a giant puzzle that I’m making up as I go along…
If you like to do puzzles, you can probably understand… It requires much patience but it’s also therapeutic.
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
I put together a little video (speeded up!) on this work in progress…
