Untitled Musings

  This piece is the marriage of childhood memories, an inspiring song and a specific color scheme.  It didn't quite take shape as I had originally envisioned but that tends to be the story of my art life  - or just my life in general.  I first had the idea I would like to do an abstract piece with specific colors to fit with my living area.  Unfortunately, I have yet to get to the place in my artistic self where I can let a squiggle be just a squiggle, a blob just a blob, etc.  So on to another idea - a couple of photographs from the Yakima river which brought back good memories of my childhood and the beauty of Eastern Washington. The thing was, I really wasn't digging on a straight landscape....Hmmm....so on went the tunes and out came the paint brushes and palette knives. Right about this time, I was completely obsessed with Rhett Walker band and when Come to the River came on the ipod I shamelessly hit repeat until it played on auto in my head for weeks. At one point while singing along, I painted the verses into the layers of water - if you look close enough at the original you can still see it in some places. For some reason the twists and turns this piece took and the random words I can just barely glimpse in the water make me happy - I think the twists and turns remind me of my life and the words peeking out of  the surface layers remind  me of my deeper foundation in Christ.
So now this big girl is hanging on my wall, grabbing attention as soon as the door is opened and generating lots of questions and conversation.  She really needs a name...

Untitled
4ft x 5ft Acryic on Canvas