signs of hope

Beginning stage

Most of my life really hasn’t changed much since the quarantine began. Well, except for the social part, I never realized how social I was until I need to give it up! So now I’m doing my design and marketing business, TCG Design, from my dining room table. This part of it I don’t mind. For now, I like working from home and being able to go for walks in the middle of the day, and keeping the laundry going is a big perk too. But in spite of that I am feeling cagy. And it’s definitely not a comfortable feeling. I am even feeling boxed in with my art. So now I’m playing around with acrylic paint and being much more abstract in my style. I was doing a demo on Sunday (you can see the demo here), and planned on painting flowers in a vase. But a friend who was watching mentioned that people in Spain are hanging hearts in their windows in support of medical workers and of course I LOVED that idea. So my painting became a floral heart. And I can’t even tell you how much fun I had painting freely and with only intuition as my guide.

So here is number two. I am sharing a few of the stages so you can see a bit of the journey. And it was really ugly at one point (see below). And then when I stopped working on it when I wasn’t sure if I was finished, I decided to walk away and come back later with fresh eyes. And then in the evening while I was practicing yoga in my studio, I was staring at it and realized what was wrong…it was too rigid in its shape, the complete opposite of my goal right now. So I dove in one more time and now I’m smitten with it. Don’t you agree? It’s available…message me if you are interested. Thanks!

super messy stage

work-in-progress detail

Where I paused to walk away and come back with fresh eyes…

Now I’m so happy with it! So glad I didn’t stop at the last stage…

The original one in the (hopefully) new series of “hope hearts.”