So am back to finishing up half-done pieces after recently completing my new wall hanging. I can't believe I have finished 12 pieces since July! It's so satisfying as I really enjoy finishing things (despite how long it takes), but more importantly, I've been having so much fun!
I don't think I should include the below piece in the count. Why? Well I have a confession..... this piece has been a long time in the making <eek>. Sixteen years to be exact!
So in 2000, when I worked in chambers, both of my bosses were taking a long lunch break and I didn't have much to do. I'd been doing some personal research on alternative therapies and the night before, I had envisaged what I call my "spirit beings". So I sketched out two designs for some soon to be drawings.
Two years later, I completed those drawings in my black and white bubble style with the hope of transferring them into a painting.
Thirteen years later, in August 2015, I was working through my pile of unfinished projects (as I seem to do haha) and decided to continue on this project and off I went. The background of the canvas board came up beautifully and the depiction of the spirit beings was exactly was I was hoping. And then I became stumped. I didn't know how to finish it. So I commenced the second in the series (still yet to be completed) whilst I contemplated how to finish them. Then at the same point as the first, I hit the brick wall. And so they sat. Until now.
This painting comes up rather ordinary and muted in its vibrancy in the pic as the many dots seem to distort the lens. However, these paintings are the most meaningful to me out of all of my work I've completed since that day in chambers. And there is quite a collection hahaha!!! Their meaning is deeply personal and to see the first one finally completed brings me heart-warming joy. I'm hoping to work on the second soon so will post a pic once it's done.
Enjoy your weekend!
