Feral Grace III

This work gave me the confidence to include more darkness, more black spaces. Using black as the color of another object rather than a way to show dimension. Darkness is what gives art life and perspective, drama! I still struggle to fall into it without hesitation, but this work catapulted me into the possibilities of releasing the fear of making a mistake. My recent works are much more shaded in and utilize much more dark space- and it all began here. In fact, I now make it a point to add darkness first instead of last- ensuring that I will have to justify that darkness by adding more of it into the piece in order to balance and complete it. Writing these little blurbs I see the wisdom in the metaphor- do first, justify later. !!! Be bold!