He Climbed Higher - The Journey
10 x 10 Canvas Board
Acrylics/Collage/Stamping
It's been quite the weekend/week around here as my son was gathering his belongings to move to Boston. So happy and excited for him with a twinge of "I miss him already."
I did this painting with him in mind. It is loaded with symbolism...obviously, that only I would know....so I'll share with you. This painting didn't start very well and I wondered at one point if it would amount to anything. But I persevered.
Here's the first step...
A little bit of midnight blue paint and my hand prints.....now what?
Hmmmm. Where am I going to go from here?
Nothing is working for me yet....
I've altered the colors a bit and covered the background....
My idea is taking shape...I have a mountain, a curvy path, some water at the bottom and a ladder reaching up to the collaged moon. This painting is about a journey.
At the very bottom of the painting, is a school of fish (you have to scroll back up and look at the finished painting). While Tom loves to fish....this is a "school of fish"...as he's gone back to school. He loves the water...he lived at the beach this summer. Lots of stars...he is my star. The curvy road...his certainly has been from college to Afghanistan, back to college, to Morocco, to the beach and now...to Boston. He's climbed mountains to get where he is...perhaps I should make that mountain higher....I still could...and the final part is the ladder up to the moon that says, "He climbed higher." He has, and I couldn't be more proud...he's still climbing. I can be as corny as I want to here....
That's plenty of reflection for this Sunday!
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