I miss the ocean and all that it brings to my soul.
I want to be floating... here.
It represents me, at my best.
Inspired by and painted while listening to Moonlight on the Sea, a musical gift from a most special friend of mine, Ron Rodgers ( @rerkaizen )
This beautiful melody surrounds me in my studio almost every day. It calms and restores. And it is simply magic to paint by....
Have a listen... http://bit.ly/3HpqTn
Inspire/Expire Watercolor © Michelle "Shell" Rummel
As you know I swim in the ocean every chance I get, and plunge out to where land becomes a small part of the horizon. It's a distant place, yet very near for all of us, a place that mixes night shadows from below with majestic swells buoying us and pushing us into an immense heaven above. It's an exceptionally magic place, where we are all at once balanced and tossed, cradled and threatened, commingled with the universe and left bereft and alone.
You've brought the experience of that here in an artistic magic of the most extraordinary kind. I no more can fathom this than I can the wonder of the ocean. This has the same immense beauty.
You see, I should have remained mute.
