Follow your bliss...: I love this little one...

Sunday, July 06, 2008

I love this little one...

I really do love it...it's done on a scrap of RIVES BFK, it's approx. 6 x 4 inches, and not a very straight cut one either... there's just something delightful about the flow of watercolor on that velvety surface...I just let it go about it's juicy business, bleeding and drying, then I touched into it with various pencils for some detail after it dried, but not a lot, I didn't want to over work it...

Whenever I see this one, it always startles my heart in a special way...I can't explain it, only that I love this little painting...

And of course, Beethoven had something to do with it...Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" in C sharp minor op. 27/2...

Moonlight, Adagio sostenuto, Number II, January 3, 2006

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Me and Fibromyalgia...the good news is, it's not going to kill me.

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