"Love Found in Hope"
Acrylic and gold foil on Canvas
12" x 24"
Jun. 08, 2020
NFS

COVID19 and Unemployment Project

Many Americans, including myself, have been affected one way or another due to 2020's crazy COVID19 and it's lockdown. This year started out with a major punch to the gut. Due to our organization's acquisition, I was dismissed from my position at work as our marketing team was liquidated. Then COVID19 hit...

I've diligently applied to companies I could see myself working for, filtering for the highest-rated in job satisfaction. Until that time comes again to pour my heart and soul into my work, I've found another kind of work to dedicate myself to - my home, family, and art.  All the new homeschooling help with my son and getting to the honey-dos like wall paint touchups, multiple shelve installations, shoe cabinet building, repairing a leaky AC drainage pipe in the ceiling, birdhouse building, fence repairs, cabinet repairs, and bathroom tile grouting have been completed and I find myself without any significant repair to do that cost more time than money. That conundrum brought my attention to several unfinished paintings. This one was started back in April of 2019 and sat sad and forgotten in the spare bedroom closet.  With new enthusiasm, I dusted it off and set myself to work.

Punch up the color

I started this one out back in 2019 and forgot it with a job demanding so much from my eyes. The colors began rather boring and needed to look and feel more like my pastel work if I was going to be satisfied with the end product.  I swapped out my detail brushes for a larger brush and applied the strokes more as I would to my drawings. I also used the full rainbow of colors in every aspect so that the piece flowed together in a more balanced way. I love the results and to give it the final glitz to make this painting sing, I added some gold foil to the trailing ribbons. The title of this piece is because roses are symbolic of love and the large leaf cradling the roses is a hope philodendron. I'm sure you can put the pieces together.