Share a piece of art that's moved you recently.

My mom, Jean Blake White, in addition to working with us with the customer support center for my business, is an accomplished professional artist. I paint too, but I would say that I dabble. I’m maintaining my amateur status for when they add watercolors to the Olympics. :-) She and I did this painting together in mixed media — watercolor, pastel, and ink, on one Sunday afternoon recently. It was kind of a fun painting “duet” in visual form. My mom was on the left side of the paper, and I was on the right. Of course there was also some cross over into each other’s territory as we got into it. We were just “messing about” with a new set of watercolors that we had just bought, and wanted to try them out to see what they could do. And of course, Stuart and I have been “messing about in boats” with our sailing lessons so the theme evolved naturally as we worked. My mom and I were really pleased with how this painting turned out, because it looked like one composition rather than two, and the page had a lot of brightness and positive energy. You can almost feel the wind gusting across the page and our happy artistic playfulness as we swished our brushes gleefully over the surface of the paper. Even though we hadn’t set out to do anything in particular, we decided that this painting was definitely a “keeper” and we were delighted to be able to share it in the Summer Newsletter for our Life Balance software customers. And now I get to share it with my friends on Zaadz too! :-)