Divinity

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This was a fun painting!

I painted it in a just a week – super fast in my painting life.  It was done as a gift of appreciation for someone who is really generous to Joe and me.  She is in my painting group and had attempted to paint a shell like this on a full sheet of paper herself, but gave up on it.

My mom gave me a nautilus shell – just like she was trying to paint – a long time ago; it sits on the vanity of my bathroom.  I looked at it one day and had a burst of inspiration – I could paint this for her!

I started with the blues in the middle and painted it section by section, spiraling out to the big wide section where I could use a big brush and be loose and washy with the paint.

There are just three paints here – giving it harmony and unity.  It’s always freeing (in a paradoxical way) to limit the number of paints in a painting.

I wasn’t going to share it here, as it didn’t seem as “serious” a painting.  But then the reaction to it was such that I thought, why not?

I gave it the name Divinity, partly because it spirals out like cosmic energy, and partly because it is like soft, sweet old-fashioned candy – and partly because it just fit.

22”x30” – July 2019 – Watercolor on paper.