creative courage challenge – peace

I submitted this painting to Jenna Rainey’s 2024 edition of the ‘Creative Courage Competition’. The prompt was a picture of beautiful Icalendic poppies.

I called my piece ‘peace’, because Icelandic poppies signify peace, because it is something I search for in myself through painting, and because I believe we need it in our human connection and the world around us.

tiny paintings

In the summer of 2024 I made a small collection of tiny paintings.

Some of them sprung from my own imagination or reference photo, for some of them I looked at the work of artists I follow online.
In some cases I followed along with a tutorial, and in a few I made ‘copies’ just to familiarize myself with a new technique or subject. These are the artists that inspired me (I will link to their Instagram accounts):
> Heike Kuzminski
> Kolbie Blume
> Sarah Cray
> Nadya Bonten-Slenders