Painting more 02-11-25

02.11.25 Painting More

I Started working on this painting again. It’s been something that I’ve wanted to finish but didn’t quite know how. Thankful I’ve learned how to use procreate and Kilonotes on my iPad to try out different ideas before actually committing them to the Canvas.

Right before Thanksgiving of 2024 I realized that I wanted my YouTube’s and fine art to be more cinematic. Having my work have more depth and poetry so that I would like to look at it more, and just enjoy it more. My work has operated in Narrative and story telling for a long time, especially the clothing, the story telling just occurs differently.

With this painting it started with a story I heard about the water Lillie. How the Mayans would use the flower to see if their water reserves were good to use. The story went if the water was corrupted, the flower would not grow or would die. I wanted to use that symbolically, thinking about water as frozen emotion. The melting of frozen emotion or the clearing of the waters so new growth could happen.