BYE-bye sunny sky.

Welcome to oil paint on canvas approach number two. Due to how long my first attempt, my flower girl took me to finish, I downsized my canvas quite a bit for this one. The colors for this one were pretty fun to work with. There was a lot of mixing involved, & getting the sky to gradually get darker & darker was quite a task. It's a piece that symbolizes how quickly times of happiness can turn to times of dismay, sometimes by the loss of just one thing.

"Loss is nothing else but change,

& change is Nature's delight."

-Marcus Aurelius

take these broken wings & learn to FLY.

I'm sure by now some of you might have wondered what my cover photo is all about. 

Well, it's actually a painting I did on my bedroom wall. 

[Don't mind some of the clutter, apparently the maid called in sick that day.]

A friend of mine once told me to have a "fun" room while I still can, before I get married and have to share & whatnot, & that's exactly what I've tried to do!

Unfortunately (to some degree), I've upgraded to bigger and better bedroom furniture, and my dresser now covers the painting. But, the painting had a pretty long run, and was definitely nice to look at. 

Hopefully my parents will keep it around after I move out, and visitors to the future guest bedroom will be able to enjoy it.

& with some lyrics to one of my favorite Beatles songs, I bid you good day. 

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings & learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to

be free.