LET THE SUNSHINE IN by db Waterman

LET THE SUNSHINE IN is about a girl who hangs up balloons to brighten up the world. She wants to bring some warm sunlight into her gloomy surroundings.

The original painting was made on a large canvas.

I am a Mixed Media artist. Mixed media art is the mixing of different creative media to create work that incorporates two or more art forms. Mixed media is about breaking the boundaries between different art forms. Artworks can be made on canvas, paper or cardboard.

Children inspire me. Their ability to transcend any difficult situation is amazing. Playing tag in the ruins of a bombed-out city. Playing football in the most miserable neighborhoods. They are always looking for the light. They save the future that our generations really messed up and don't even blame us for it. If only we could keep the child in ourselves a bit more, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Art can help us find our childlike innocence again

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I remembered that as a young girl I so much liked to cut images from magazines to paste them into school agendas, scrapbooks and even on my bedroom door. Add to this the fascination I always had for walls filled with old posters, flaking paint, scrappy billboards and weathered paint, it opened an unexpected door for completely new opportunities. Completely unintended I found a new way of working, I felt pleasurably and comfortably at home in. What started out as copying old walls with worn out posters has grown into many series of new visual storytelling. Not simply just eclecticism, but bringing together many seemingly incoherent story lines into one completely new story, my own personal story. Initially it lacked the one thing that is important to me, the transparency that normally only is possible with the use of watercolor. The unforgiving layering of transparent watercolors is a challenge I would not want to miss and after a lot of trial and error I finally succeeded in getting the collages as transparent as a watercolor. Every layer of paper, oil, acrylic, pencil, crayon, ballpoint, watercolor, ink, charcoal and whatever else I use, remains visible in the artwork. You can imagine it made me feel the queen of the ball !

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