Up till two a.m. last night finishing this piece. At least I'm much happier about how this painting came out. Its inspired from a picture I took at the Mandarin Dock by the St. Johns River. The park is beautiful typical Southern woods with palmettos, spanish moss dripping down and crooked oaks shading the path. The sun was just beginning to set upon the water and it cast these brilliant red shadows along the trees.
The bridge is symbolic of walking the path to happiness. Sometimes it's so hard to see the beauty around you as you take that journey unless you step back for a moment and look around. I so want to get there. I want to find the light at the end of the tunnel, financial security, peace, success and good God perhaps a man who wants to be there with me.
Maybe that's the problem. I'm always looking so far ahead, its hard for me to see the good things around me. Am I alone in this? Or is it common for us to always think about the things we don't have and not what we already do.
