This was a fun painting!
I painted it in a just a week – super fast in my painting life. It was done as a gift of appreciation for someone who is really generous to Joe and me. She is in my painting group and had attempted to paint a shell like this on a full sheet of paper herself, but gave up on it.
My mom gave me a nautilus shell – just like she was trying to paint – a long time ago; it sits on the vanity of my bathroom. I looked at it one day and had a burst of inspiration – I could paint this for her!
I wasn’t going to share it here, as it didn’t seem as “serious” a painting. But then the reaction to it was such that I thought, why not?
I gave it the name Divinity, partly because it spirals out like cosmic energy, and partly because it is like old-fashioned candy – and partly because it just fit.
22”x30” – July 2019 – Watercolor on paper.