beginningZ

One of my first paintings--painted on a red acrylic platter.  The "beginningZ" of my art career.  I was playing with various techniques and combinations of the chakra colors.  A pretty good beginning, wouldn't you say?

When I first started painting, I was drawn to paint on metal and acrylic. I just loved how my paints would glide on their surface. I purchased red acrylic platters at Z Gallerie then drove down to a local steel mill and found a pile of red aluminum sheets that were 1 cent each. I bought them all.  For some reason, I just needed red.  Then as I began to study the meaning of color inspired by the chakras, I realized that red represents boldness, strength, energy, passion, joy, love, security.  I was healing from memories of childhood abuse and needed to regain my power and find out who I was.  Red was exactly what I needed.