After a long reprieve...

Hello again! It's nice to see you, it's been too long! Well I'm back this spring with a new update finally.

First things first, my first commissioned piece! It was a lot of fun to do, I really enjoyed diving in to this one... I almost didn't want to give it up to it's buyer in the end but of course, I had to. But luckily it resides with a friend and we can visit anytime.

Here she is:

It's inspired by the classic Japanese prints of stormy, kamakaze waves but infused with my own detailed style. It took a couple weeks to fill out the waves with all those tiny details, and a very small brush! Ironically, I started it just weeks before the Japan disaster and as I was nearing completion the infamous earthquake/tsunami hit and my painting has become known among family and friends as the Tsunami. Not the association I was aiming for but definitely a strange sense of timing that emerged. Our hearts were all going out to Japan when that happened.

Here is a close up of some of the details:

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During the winter I also outfitted my boyfriend's new house with some original artwork. The first one here was his Christmas present. I can't quite say what inspired it, it was just one of those things that started with an image of shapes and colour in my head and quickly evolved as I worked on it. It wasn't long before it became my skewed stylistic take on the foundational particles of life - an atom! Devon quite liked it and I was happy to see he displayed it in the living room.

Also, the atomic painting turned out to be the seed for my commission. Our friend Adam saw it when he came over one day and was inspired to see what I could do with an idea of his - and voila, the Tsunami Waves project came about. It was great to have someone take such an interest and come to me with an offer of paid work with total artistic autonomy!

Unfortunately not the best picture at the moment but I'll have to get a good one soon to do it justice:

The large one to the left was his Christmas gift.

The three small ones were a collaboration of our ideas. Originally, we tried 'painting lessons' together but in the end he gave me free reign to bring our ideas to life. The ideas were for one to be the texture of stone with layers of minerals, earthy colours; another being like a close-up of the surface of Jupiter or Saturn, with the Great Storms and all; and the last being something like the cosmos - swirls of light and stars and cosmic matter. The last one is my personal favourite, it was fun to do and I enjoyed the finished product the most, although they all turned out how we both had hoped. Here they are as I was working on them:

That's all for now but keep your eyes peeled over the next couple months for some more updates of recent pieces as well as an update of some of the backlog from the winter.

Cheers!