Yeah, first painting I've finished in 2008!!  (I know, I know, 2008 is almost over...took me long enough)  Here are some pics of me working on it from earlier this year, and then the finished painting.  If anyone is interested it isn't up on the website yet, I have to get it professionally photographed first, but you can email me.  There has already been some interest in this piece, I took it on the road with me this summer, unfinished.  I painted on it a little while vending.  Painting in front of your booth attracts a bit of attention.



So this painting started as a creative expansion on the idea of the Bubble Garden painting.  Both of these pieces were inspired by getting in the bath and watching the little bubbles of oxygen form on my skin, and by jumping into a cool creek on a hot summer day, the feeling of the air forced into the water with my body swirl up and around me and the cool crisp water touching my skin.  And inspired by imagining what a mermaid's garden might be like, and by all the hours I spent in the pool/lake/river as a kid (and as an adult).