I sketched. It needs color to make it even more dynamic and more me. I love color, but it is the hardest part once the sketch is done to apply paint. Will I ruin it? One wrong stroke and it's over!
Here is another The New York Times Ad inspiration, which I like to call "The Comfy Sweater," which when the world has gone mad, we all need to climb in the soft tent of a big sweater to escape for a while for comfort.
I practiced the art of Mindfulness while sketching both of these to give one part of my brain a rest while the other part was completely immersed at the task at hand.
I love taking a blank white space and filling it with something, anything...That is art, such as an empty stage, unfilled seats in the theater suddenly becomes a cacophony of sound, movement, an interplay between actor and audience. Magic. My work doesn't have to be brilliant- Art of The Old Masters- fantastic; it just has to be intriguing, pleasing to the eye and wondrous to the mind.
