Monkey Swing

This canvas was a re-do that I took on during my "makeover challenge" one week. I really wanted to move my body while I painted so I used a big paint brush and scrubbed in paint. No planning, little thinking, just wet-into-wet for that first new layer. That way of approaching this canvas carried through to subsequent layers and revisions and soon my eye could pick out two abstracted monkeys swinging in the trees. I gave them something to hang onto  and water to swing over. This one reminds me to stop holding on so tight, whether to the paintbrush or to the goal you've set... take time to have fun too!
 
48x24"