Painting for me is like a transporter... I leave my body for awhile and get carried into the textures, colours, smells of the paint, the music I am listening to... I dissolve.
This is a very healing time for me... and can be short and sweet, or prolonged throughout the day. My goal is to paint a little everyday. One layer at a time, then leave it to dry. My paintings paint themselves in the end... the vision comes into focus closer to the end, rather than at the beginning. Shapes and forms emerge through the textures, and quite often I am surprised when something shows up. Like with this painting. I took a bold leap and added a bunch of dark marks, and they started to look like buildings, and then a mountain cave evolved, and a carnival of sorts in the sky... it became very magical, and I really enjoyed the journey!
I was happy with this stage of the painting, although it felt like it needed some grounding... an anchor for it all to sit on, so I drew a line across the bottom and then there was a place for it all to land.
This is the final... I called it 'Mountain Carnival of Souls'. What a trip. My camera didn't quite capture the true pop of the overall image... it is really eye-catching in real life. My son really likes this one, and I had a wonderful time painting it.
~Leah
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