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I was having a hard day when I painted this. A hard time keeping my mind grateful and not spinning with the troubles of this world. Some of those troubles hit us very personally in our finances. We are going on 3.5 years now. Sometimes I am just plain weary. On one hand, my art business is doing really good. Better than ever and miraculous provision after miraculous provision just keeps coming even though my husband is struggling to get his footing in the work force and my big, big dream of building an amazing studio on our property is seemingly slipping away from my grasp. I dared to dream bigger and make plans for it to happen in five years three years ago. Two years away from now. Last month, I had to dip into the savings for that studio to help make ends meet and increased my housecleaning jobs. I am working more than ever to help make ends meet. When I started this painting I chose to paint with messy colors in a messy way to just get the junk thinking out of my head. Free...

Expressive Portraits Of Animals And People: Jani is an award winning water media/graphite artist who paints and draws people and animals in a loose, painterly style she calls impressionistic realism. "I love playing interesting colors against each other; creating movement and texture with all the different medias mixing the medias as needed to add another layer of character and depth. It fits my adventurous spirit." She intentionally leaves a little to the viewer's imagination so they can be a part of her emotive, story-telling artwork. Jani is accomplished in a variety of medias and offers her fine art skills for pet portrait commissions in graphite, charcoal, watercolor, acrylic and oil. Read More About Jani's Art Journey Here....