The Offering

The Offering

The Offering       9 1/2" x  7 1/2"      cold wax, oil, on canvas

An artist blogger that I follow wrote once that her experience in painting is not all the "joy" and "delight" that most painters describe when talking about their work. Instead it can be very difficult, a struggle from start to finish.

This is how it was for me working on this fourth and last of my cold wax series.  I was on the brink of throwing it in the garbage pail. I had turned it around, upside down, changed color pattern. . . everything!  But nothing worked, absolutely NOTHING!! Until, looking at it for the last time, on the floor (I often put my work on the floor where I can see it from another view point or where it is ready to be chucked!), I began to see new possibilities.

There it is, "The Offering" .  I don't  even have, usually, an immediate inspiration for a title.  But it just came with this one. As I think more about it, it's the perfect title for this difficult piece and my struggle.