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Reflections Koi One

18 X 36 inches
Oil on Canvas

A Painting a Day




Monday Monday...still can't type with both hands. A friend suggested Neuro Muscular Massage...so I am on a mission! Help is soon! We continue to gather bids for the renovation of this house and the addition of STUDIO space! YEAH.... meanwhile I paint in my little room!

This unique painting is the first of many with this application. I had a dream last week about it and started it on Friday...Finished it up on Saturday...and listed it on eBay on Sunday. I wanted a KOI painting that was more low key and mood setting to calm cool colors and when Terry walked in and said WOW...I knew I had succeeded with my dream. I am sure it will evolve more as it goes as well with the next one. I used several palette knives as well as Impasto mixed with the paint to give it thickness.

I am also excited to welcome Liberty to the studio...she is a young woman that I have known for almost ten years now...and she will be helping with all the computer related stuff and with art classes later once the final studio is put back together. I believe I will see her art develop as she works here, she has much hidden talent!

Have a great day today...I will return typing one handed tomorrow...gotta go rest my right hand now. Oh I want to share what Iris wrote me....

Let us decrease so He may increase
and let us remember that ego is really: Edging God Out.

Grace
Laurie

“Thus says the Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather others to them besides those already gathered.” —Isaiah 56:8

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Roxanne Steed said…
yep, Iris is right, when I get my ego out of the way, amazing things start to happen! Love these KOI - beautiful movement (reminds me of summer & a place I'd like to be right now! ahh!)
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