Preparations...

"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." 

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Preparations for the Big Sky Artists Show and Sale have been completed and I am waiting for one last watercolour to be framed and all will be ready to transport to the venue. Friday morning we set up and then follow 3 wonderful days of showing our art and chatting with the many wonderful people who come by.  I always seem to fall into some interesting conversations with new people, with other artists, with friends and others. It is encouraging and enlightening.

This year I have painted some smaller landscape works in acrylic and in watercolour I have a few new flower paintings. Along with these are several 'poured' acrylic paintings which I always enjoy doing because the colours run together in such fascinating ways.  There is a series of four small paintings I have simply called Phantom 1, 2, 3, & 4.  This is one of them.

Deciding on the layout for hanging paintings on the 8 x 4' boards is always interesting and after arranging and re-arranging I think I have come up with a layout for the acrylics. Our dining room table measures 6 of the 8 foot length of the board so this is the plan although they will be spread out a bit more.

The final watercolour being framed is of the Nanking Cherry blossoms outside our dining room window.  They are the first flowers to bloom in our yard each spring and offer us a pleasant view as we eat breakfast.