constant companion

My Constant Companion.
This is my personal Favorite, my moon and stars. If you know me, and my art you know I have a thing for them. If your new to my blog, well now you know. You can often see a crescent moon and star in many of my images. My affection for the moon began as a child, as most things do. I always imagined my mom was the moon and the first 2 stars that appeared were me and my daddy. I vividly remember blowing kisses to the moon.

Kendall's Wish

Angel #12
work in progress.

The inspiration for this angel is my neighbors daughter Kendall. She is 12 years old and quite recently had a brain Hemorrhage.
She has been in the ICU, since. She and her mother are fans of my angels, this one is of her and for her.

Angel 6 "Hope"

I love love love this little Hope Angel drawing. I was just sitting in my art studio when I grabbed a pencil and sketched out this angel. It was just after Halloween, and I needed some hope. It was a quick drawing, i'd say something like "it just flowed out of me" which is trite but true! I colored her in there she was, this was shortly after i added the hot pink in my hair. i liked doing this little drawing so much I decided to do another one. This was right around election time, so the air was electric. There was hope in the air of our country and it reflected in me emotionally.

Angel 4 " Dawn's Hope"

Angel 4 came in an interesting way. I began this one in September. It was spawned after a reconnection with a child hood friend via facebook. I had 2 friends growing up named Dawn, so that alone means something to me. Also the dawn as in a new day, which brings hope. I hadn't done a green painting yet so i knew the colors i wanted. anyway, the history with dawn and i is such: we were friends in jr high school, and like most school girls we were emotionally immature. the way i remember it was i stole her boyfriend, and therefor we became enemies. i think this is true, and i wish i had been more mature than to do something like that, but i wasn't. i have always felt badly that this incident happened, for more reasons than this blog will entail. i cannot remember how Dawn and i got over this and how it was pivotal. dawn and i worked together for several years and even walked together in graduation. Life goes on and since the world of facebook we have reconnected. I couldn't think of her with out remembering the past, so for her i decided to do a painting. it was titled it "dawn's gift" a two fold meaning. 1) the gift of forgiveness and acceptance of a friend & 2) the new hope the dawn brings.
I did my best to capture dawns features, but the hair turn e d out much darker than hers, but the spirit is there, and that is how she came to be!
UPDATE:: I was re reading another blog I had and found this post. Here is a snap shot of what I was thinking then. I think i will change the names back t o Dawn's Hope. My first idea is usually the better.

from: 10/04/08
This painting has been a long one to finish!
i went about 4 weeks with out getting any work done, i had "painters block"
i guess all creatives are vulnerable to this. remind you i have 2 days a week allotted to paint.
i didn't like where my painting was at one point and not being able to get it past there tripped me up. i have some feelings and there are unseen things at work here too, i can feel them pressing in on me. i got through it and have been painting again, i am getting closer to being done with this painting.
this is angel #4 in my series. i'm thinking of calling her "dawns hope" .