Humble Pie - Original actress Medium: acrylic & hot glue

Medium: acrylic & hot glue on canvas

The criss-cross brush strokes of her skin and her future

I just knew I wanted it to be a culture and hair on canvas piece

So many times I've had chaos all around me and just wanted to escape to a quiet space

I couldn't resist doing a multi-coloured variation of the madras and using a chocolate skin tone to model it

Humble Pie - Original actress Medium: acrylic & hot glueSize: 8" x 10" Medium: acrylic on canvas Artventure: I saw the coloured photo version of this view on my laptop's background. At the time, I was deep into exploring the black to white colour spectrum and thought that this would look spectacular in gray scale. As I painted, I got transported to the great Canadian outdoors where the pine forest and vast lakes exist in all their grandeur, reminding me of how small I was in comparison. Sometimes we need a