Grace like a Whale

Grace like a Whale, 8" by 5.5", watercolor
I needed a warm-up before I start doing final drawings for a picture book that I'm working on. (coming soon)  So, I sketched out and painted what I've been experiencing these past couple of weeks.  This piece is expressing how I've been experiencing grace, what I think it looks like, and how it moves in my life.  This dawned on me when I did some volunteer mural painting at the Aquarium of the Pacific this past Sunday. I realized how big the gift of grace is, and how it steadily moves gracefully like whales as they dance and cruise through the ocean blue.  

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