I am finally done with the one canvas

that made my Christmas ho-hum.  Finishing this canvas was a priority.  A must, so I could move out of 2016 without carrying my problems into 2017.  I needed a clean canvas so to speak.  So, today on the 31st of December…..I am finishing up that project.

My problem is not of great importance

to anyone but me.  No one else is staying up all night long thinking about how to make my problem with this canvas better.  No one but ME, is studying other artist to see if some of their techniques will make this canvas look right.  No one in my family even understands why this is so important to me.

I have included the process in pictures.

A couple of them are okay, I guess.  Finishing them would have been easier, but they weren’t right.  I am not even sure the final canvas is right.

But It does speak to me…

The boy looking into the water is my grandson Jadon.  The fins and some of the fish are his hand prints and the seaweed is made up of his little feet.  The underlying coats added texture and extra love.

2017 is a New Year,

so wrap up those old canvases.  Get rid of the dirty paint water and paper towels.  Clear your mind of the things that are causing you to stay up all night with worry.  Start the year with a new clean canvas.  I am…