This is the second post today. What can I say - I'm a feast or famine type-o-gal. So about half an hour ago I left you hanging with the piano primed ina ghostly all white state. Finally the really fun part - adding color! That first brush stroke is always the hardest. Where to begin? Right smack dab in the center of course!

I eventually got rid of that green fingernail but it was fun for a hot second.

Then I needed some connectors - part wave, part vine, part tree branches/roots (you'll see as it evolves)

Some of these lines became hair too - multi-purpose - I like it. It's all in how you look at it.

I was thinking of the arms as waves. There were a lot of nature elements to this - a real feeling of the timelessness and cycles of growing things and the ebb and tide of water - endless ocean. I was listening to a lot of Florence and the Machine.

So the back alone took about a week but it was totally worth it :)

Now the next challenge - pulling everything around the sides. I started here:

I knew it needed more work but wasn't sure what came next so I started on the fornt to give my subconscious sometime to work it out and/or to see if I just needed another part to be done for it to fall into place.

Remember how I mentioned tree feelings? This is what started happening on the front:

I added some color to the top too at this point. Starting to feel the time crunch so was trying to work multiple bits at once.

This post is getting epically long. Then again it was a pretty epic process so I guess that fits. I'm going to leave you with a pic of the mostly finished top and expanded front:

Next post - the final side and finished product pics!

As some of you may know, I submitted a proposal to be one of the artists for Sing For Hope's annual Sing for Hope Piano Project and I was accepted!!! I am essentially creating a bas-relief on the piano using plaster and papier-mache casts of a whole bunch of people from all over NYC. Aiming for a 3D variation of my Black & White and Color work on a PIANO :) So exciting!

Last week was my first week in the piano studio working on my piano. Here is a pic of me & my piano at he beginning aka the BEFORE PICTURE:

I mentioned I'm casting a lot of people right? This includes some fabulous young people from Still Waters in a Storm. Check out some pics from our casting session: