Just wanted to send a quick update - I got the work-in-progress ready for Exhale!

I am really happy with how they are all turning out, but this one especially felt just right as I was working on her. So much so, its given me ideas of how I might want to update her painting - as she is one of the oldest pieces I still haven't discontinued. Some paintings after a few years, I find myself ok with letting them fade back, but this one always felt like it needed to stay in the series despite my painting skills having grown so much in the almost 10 years since I painted her. The spirit of her just stayed so strong with me. And so, seeing her take new life in this new form has been very exciting and (someday when I'm caught up on everything) I'd love to take some of what I learned designing this piece back into the original painting.

Of course, she is not finished, finished yet. I still need to do a bunch of the detail work, esp in the eels and her hair - but I figured I would share the "75% there" stage with you guys - as I have been doing so far :) I hope you guys love how she is turning out!

✨ Exhale ✨ This sorceress is a meditation on our ability to summon into reality creations that manifest the truths we know in our bones. Her misty eels were once only abstract ideals and ideas, and with the breath of her own lifeforce, she manifests them into existence. This sorceress lives at the edge, between the real & unreal, and weaves truth into the fabric of reality around her. Though others may fear the realms of abstraction and may be blind to what they can't touch and feel, she fears not. Her familiars are grand and ephemeral guardians of our existential responsibility to create reality as we know it should be. What truths do you summon into the world from deep within your moral bones? What ideas do you guard fiercely?

I am all set up to start working on Advent as well, so hopefully sometime in the coming week, I will have her work-in progress design ready to share as well :)