Small Steps Create Big Shifts

I began this piece with this inspirational painting “Springtime” that represent colors that I love at this time of the year. It came together in a flurry of play activity and was done within an hour. However, it has some compositional issues that I corrected by pushing on to its conclusion in “Giant Steps”.

It has what I refer to as the ‘four rooms problem’, meaning that if you divide it into quarters each resulting composition could stand on its own, stronger than when presented as a whole. The piece needed something to bring it together and the “messy middle’ kept throwing more issues my way to solve. Finally, the solution was to use a page out of my journal that I had been working on and an acrylic skin to mask what had become a potato shape in the left corner. Sadly “Springtime only exists in this photo, but I will be using this color scheme again in future paintings, possibly in my next series.

“Springtime” 2026 NFS

This where “Giant Steps” started and the story of how it progressed.