''Wind of change'' - original artwork by @mayasky

'' If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it''.

Toni Morrison

This is a painting that I chose to call ''Wind of Change''. It was painted on canvas with oilpaint. I struggled for months with this painting, I never got it just right. Initially I wanted to paint it a large size something like 1,5 m x 1 m. I even got the canvas for it and started painting it before making any studies or sketches. I had the idea in my head and was impatient to get on with it..

Well, that didn't pan out that well and I ended up leaving it after a couple of weeks. As I was watching it glearing at me from the corner of my studio for a month or so I decided I would make a small study to figure out exactly how I wanted it to be.

I Worked on the study for about a week and somewhere in the process it stopped being a study and became the painting that I was supposed to paint the whole time. The painting was only meant to be 50 cm x 30 cm and after I was done painting it, it was if the urge to paint it again, or bigger had left my body.

Paintings do really have a life of their own. It always fascinates me how you can have an idea or a vision and still you can end up producing something completely different than you thought possible at the end of the road. I guess trust in the process, right? :) Like most things, they will work themselves out, if not always in the way you thought :)

Namaste <3