Alyice on February 27th, 2008

A Canvas For Jenna

Yesterday I began work on a new canvas and you won’t believe what I did. Well, maybe you will. I forgot I had paint on a brush from another project I was working on and I saw an area that needed a little more color so I grabbed the paint brush, dabbed it into some paint, and commenced to “touch up” the area. Well, let’s just say I made a mess! The color turned into an UGLY-Y-Y (did I say ugly?) mud color, right there on my otherwise beautiful canvas!

I could have slapped myself silly. I literally had to walk away. I had these gorgeous, vibrant, translucent colors of blue, purple, and green—quite dreamy if I might say so myself. And now I had to do something to make it all balance out and of course, that would mean saying good-bye to the entire vision I had in my head. (Luckily it was my vision and not my client’s or I would have had to start over from scratch.)

I pulled out a darker purple and a darker blue and began fixing the damage I had done when I once again discovered that mistakes are fixable.

When I showed my now 13 year old daughter the completed piece she said, “Mom, I actually like this better than the original. It’s much more interesting. And because the colors are darker you have to really stare at it to see the details and find things. I like that.” And by finding things, she meant the hidden butterflies.

Now here’s hoping Jenna, from California, will like it, too! Of course, she won’t find out until Christmas because it’s an early Christmas present—which reminds me….It’s never too early to Christmas shop!

A Canvas For Jenna

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