Occasionally, an image grabs me on some level beyond logic.  This is one of those pieces.  While I love the elegant, open composition and the gorgeous colors and even the hopeful words, my affection for this image goes beyond the sum of those components.  It just makes me really happy on a gut level.  The words read, “Some days are easier than others.”  Often, I find myself thinking my way through a tough day and saying, “Well, some days are just harder than others.”  Better Days is my attempt to turn that thinking around and to remember that some days are easier than others, too.

The hardest part of creating this piece was getting the smooth, flat pink and refraining from my habit of “spiking” flat colors with bits of other stuff.  The result of this even warm pink tone is a sweet, candy-like feel.  Maybe even a Jetsons-like feel.  This painting involved lots of tight, tiny detail work with a fine, fine brush.  I love that kind of painting!  It was a bunch of fun to create.  And I got to paint it on my new favoritest painting surface.  This piece is on a gorgeous panel of Belgian linen bonded with traditional rabbit-skin glue to a ¼” thick piece of masonite.  The linen was primed with top-grade, old school gesso.  It is a gorgeous surface for detailed painting.  The texture of the linen is so much finer than canvas.