Golden Healing, Art Process, Part 7

So this is my Golden Healing Painting now. I will be using it in my workshop addressing rejection on Saturday.

The painting itself is almost done, but not perfect. I added a glaze with white and yellow. At first, it looked like too much paint went into my glaze, and it was too late to fix it. I tried, though, and added a glaze with a teeny bit of gold in it. Then I tried metallic gold watercolor paints, and then I tried a wash with a hint of gold. You can see below that it was looking terrible.

I finished with my self leveling gel and hoped that when it dried, it would look better.

It certainly did look better after it dried. I saw another key at the bottom right of the girl that the string formed, so I turned it into a key by outlining it with gel pens and drawing a few more features. Then very boldly, and mostly because I was tired and wanted to be done with it, I drew a key into the sun’s rays (heaven’s rays of light beams,) without a pencil first, just using my gel pens of gold and black. I didn’t fuss over it. I just went for it! Luckily, it turned out OK. I did use a reference of an old skeleton key. I couldn’t remember where I saw the other key before, but it was in that area. So that would maybe make 3 keys God is releasing to us. I’m not sure the number matters, but the point is God showed me that he is releasing keys to us.

I will seek God more for a word to go with this painting later. For now, it is ready to include in my presentation, but it is not good enough for a finished art piece. I still have not fixed the blue blurs on my lady made last time. I added self leveling gel without spraying with a fixadent first. I didn’t make that mistake this time. I sprayed the whole thing with fixadent, especially those keys with the gel pens, because otherwise they would smear! Lesson learned. Crisis averted!!

P.S. I have so much more art to post…