Coming Together 

  
Coming Together is not only the name of this painting, but also how I feel. 

When my husband, Warren, retired in July, 2015, my blogging took a backseat. I had always read other blogs each day at lunch. Then, I started eating lunch with Warren. 

Soon after his retirement, I also started to not blog my art. 

Blogging fell into the background and almost disappeared. 

I have spent the last few months trying to get back to blogging. 

I really miss my many friends I made through blogging. 

When I started this blog, I made a commitment to always blog my paintings. Well, I was way behind. 

But this post almost catches me up. I know my blogs have been less than interesting. The paintings I’ve posted are so old, I forgot my exact journey through them. 

But no more. 

I remember my journey through this painting. I finished it two months ago. 

I started it in Rebelle with watercolors. I wanted a painting with lots of drips. 

Then I took it into Painter and worked on it as an abstract. 

I am switching between abstracts and what I’m calling abstract florals in my paintings. 

I wanted to start putting more textures in my abstracts. So I focused on that. 

As I worked, most of the drips I had made disappeared. So at the end, I put the painting back in Rebelle and added the dark drips.