Edge
watercolor on Fabriano, 5"x 7"
matted and backed to 8"x 10"
I've spent a solid week writing an Annual Report complete with budget analyses and projections. I feel like I deserve a medal but I have to settle for a job well done. It's tough to put the time aside to paint when my creative juices are flowing elsewhere and my head is filled with reviews and plans and facts and figures.
Somehow I managed to make this piece from a sketch earlier this year and the title is fitting. I'm at the end of one phase of a great big project and at the beginning of the new phase. I'm beat, so I have to put aside feelings of being overwhelmed and inadequate, take a rest and know that I'll wake up with renewed enthusiasm and vigor if not tomorrow, then the next day. I think I'll put my feet up and go watch the finale of Mad Men.
As I was scanning this, I realized that, while painting, I was listening to the beginnings of Ken Follet's World Without End, his sequel to Pillars of the Earth. It just so happened that the chapter I was listening to described a horrid scene of children entering the forbidden forest, wreaking some havoc just before a knight pursued by two king's men wreaked further havoc. Now I look at the edge of the forest in this painting quite differently than I did in the original sketch! Synchronicity and X Factors are two things I love about life in the universe!
