Hello Equinox... my old friend(?)

[tetsab]

I've spent the past 3 days slowly updating a small painting I did 5 or 6 years ago. I'm a completely untrained artist (didn't even take it in highschool) and I'm OK with that.

When I first made it part of the idea I was going for was something like an upside down heart with venous vessels as branches:



However, as the years went on it started to bug me -- especially because this was based on a real silvery tree that was important to me in the world -- that it was a naked tree (and also that it had a ghostly stake instead of a wooden one) so I made these updates:



It could surely still do with more work (maybe next year) but for now I'm happy that for the first day of Fall I've put leaves onto my tree.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

That's beautiful!

[tetsab]

Thanks!

(Also, holy cow, this is the first time a 'stranger' has commented on a 'LJ' [DW] post of mine in well over a decade! I'm taking it as the 2nd hopeful sign this month that DW is starting some form of revival. The 1st sign was when someone else I know in FB started posting and flagged that they had when I'd had no idea they had an account before then. I said I was also purposefully trying to ease myself back into posting more, which will be a bit of a social trick I plan to write about in my next post). :)

[minoanmiss]

laugh Hi, I wander around my Networks page a lot.

[tetsab]

'allo!

As I start to coax myself back in (you can see it's not quite working yet with the long delay responding to this comment!) that sounds like a great idea to adopt. :)

[sabotabby]

That is super cool.

[tetsab]

Thank you. :)

[houseof9cats]

It's art time all around. Very nice!

[tetsab]

I've certainly been more of a participant in art time than bread time this lockdown. :)

[greylock]

That's pretty rawk, L.

(I prefer the before myself, but I like simples)

[tetsab]

I liked the idea of before but because it was based on a real tree that I loved for its silvery leaves (last time I was in Scotland I even plucked one and took it home with me pressed in a book) it was actually mildly depressing me to look at it! When I look at this one it actually makes me mildly happy so mission definitely accomplished in the update.

I like the idea enough, though, that I might do another one on the theme of heart-veins as tree later, though.