Final moments! Heron Nest I has graduated! Acrylic on canvas, 60″ x 60″ ©lizamyers

All over the country students are graduating from college; from high school; from kindergarten. They’re finishing up one phase of their lives and forging ahead into the next. Looking back, everything seems to glow. There’s nostalgia for the events that helped you grow, for hurdles leapt, for challenges overcome. The day can be bittersweet, but excitement about the future beckons.

I had a little graduation ceremony in my studio yesterday. Definitely a bittersweet moment.

After months of working on a 5′ x 5′ canvas, with increasingly tiny and tinier brushes (to get the edges and details crispy clear) Heron Nest I has graduated.

Armadillo Santa Fe -(who I HIGHLY recommend) picked up the painting in their handy truck and took her away, enroute to her new home in Florida. They’ll build a fabulous protective box and then hand it off to a shipping company.

Armadillo Shipping!

There she goes- phase I of the journey.

It was hard to watch it go. There’s a big empty place in the studio. I immediately put other canvases in progress on the easel, but still… I miss it.

But there is NO TIME like RIGHT NOW to get on with the work at hand.

New canvases in the prepping process. And a garden waiting to be planted. It’s been too cold and wet in Santa Fe!

So I went back to the house to gesso new canvases. I can’t wait to get started with new color!