"A Hot Mess" ($60.00)

(adjusted price.....$60.00......mounted on a 1.50" clayboard)

Feelings are notoriously fickle. The emotions that can overtake us are the biggest obstacles in overcoming the "hand wringing" over a particularly acute situation. The best thing to do is to quit sitting in a chair crying with your box of kleenex and stay focused on the positive thoughts that can actually help to overcome your situation. Many of those positive thoughts are found in the Bible. The key is to change your focus. Feelings are not solutions.

This background looks kind of like a "hot mess", but I decided to go bold (or stay home). The flat color of the chair and lettering helped to bring it around...and it accurately represents the quote so I went with it.

The key to bringing calm to intense, bright, and bold colors is to use one or more of the same colors and lower the intensity by diluting it. Color can be diluted by adding white or black...by adding a bit of the complementary to gray it down...or the addition of a neutral such as gray or raw umber. In this case I used a lot of white to the turquoise, applied two coats, and ended up with a very flat image. It's a wonderful thing to try if you have some "hot mess" backgrounds in your drawer. They might need this type of resurrection.

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