For the past couple years, I’ve been in love with watercolor – the puddles, the merging, the transparency, the texture. Lusciousness.

Then earlier last year, I started learning about gouache – opaque watercolor. Gouache opened up a whole new world of density and layering. Now, I’ve taken the plunge into acrylic paints – there are so many types. Fluid, heavy body, even transparent.

The vividness of the colors has my attention.

Unlike watercolors, you can cover up previous layers. They open up a whole new world of incorporating mistakes by design.

The two paintings here were my first two acrylic paintings. I used an old credit card to smear the acrylic color, then stood back and looked at it. I asked myself, what might be possible on this surface. I used a carbon pen to draw the women. I drew them scribbly, restating the lines, accepting why lines.

And then, right on the page, I freewrote a little bit about the pressures I sometimes feel to do more, learn more, prove more.

Through the writing, I started to relax, and felt this sense of relief that led to and informed me writing the words, “I am Enough!” Such a feeling of relief to embrace enoughness.

Accepting that I am enough is not a one and done effort. It is a cycle of reaching, relaxing, releasing. What might you release so that you can embrace and rest in enoughness?