What is your Oxygen?
Nicole Palmer
So for me, this is an easy answer but it still makes me smile when I think about it. Family and Faith are the first two things that give my life purpose, but those are constantly imbedded into who I am. It is the ability to create art that is my Oxygen.
I feel fortunate to have received this blessing, but I have also worked hard to make myself the best artist I am capable of, at any given moment in time. This October I am taking another on-line course from Mark Lague, a Canadian artist who I admire greatly.
Sometimes its difficult to get into the studio when the ‘creative brain-drain’ is occurring, but when I push through it and begin to get the paint on the canvas (and my hands and my shirt) then the Oxygen returns and I am in my zone.
The painting below is of the iconic boathouse in Leland, Michigan. Frame 1 is what I saw. Frame 2 is the layout with the sky-holes laid in using Fastmat white, so that they would be dry the following morning. Frame 3 is the finished 36”x36” painting. Enjoy!
