Description

This painting is about the feeling in your heart just before you burst into song.  It’s the same feeling you have right before taking any kind of inspired action – hugging someone, beginning a new project, contacting an old friend.  The love wells up and suddenly you want to act on it.

This was also a new step for me in technique.  This is my second painting where the color was fully added on with glazes.  The colors were so complex and subtle that I knew I needed to glaze the entire thing.  It started with a black and white underpainting and then slowly lots and lots of different glazes were added.  Then afterwards, the detail gets added.  It’s a long but very rewarding process.

Many thanks to Edward Row for letting me interpret his photograph.  He climbed on top of a bus shelter to photograph this sky right after a storm.  Isn’t that wonderful?