| Sundown In SoCal © Marian Fortunati 9"x9" Oil on Hardboard |
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Ordinarily I spend most of my time creating. I paint every day. I do it because I really enjoy painting -- especially outside en plein air. I suppose if I had a "day job" it wouldn't matter whether I have a heavy heart. I would just get up and go to work. But I've discovered that in order to create a joyous painting, I need to feel joyous inside. Right now I'm finding it hard to paint.
I know my Dad would say that I should be celebrating him by enjoying my own life's journey. So I'm trying. Most days I do okay. I'm spending lots of time with my daughter and son-in-law and my husband and Tyler as we watch our almost two-week-old grand baby thrive. Life does has its wonderful warm and sunny spots doesn't it?
Because I've been thinking about cycles, sunsets and sunrises... deaths and births... I decided to try to paint another beautiful sunset from a series of photos I took a few summers ago. It's interesting how beautiful sunsets can be. A small goodby touched with the knowledge that in a little while we'll greet a new day again.
One summer my husband and I were visiting down in Venice Beach.... Santa Monica, CA.
In the years before and after I first met
my husband, Gastone, in Venice Italy, I was living in Venice,
California. He came to visit me that winter after we met and before we
got married. Many a time we walked the beach at sunset.
On this day, we did it again. It was dream-like.. and I enjoyed revisiting the moment by painting it.
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