experimenting with brushes: žynė fun

 

It came to me from an image—a woman on tv wearing lace gloves. it hit something in me. i remembered my great-grandmother’s church gloves. the kind of power a babushka carries without saying a word. that stayed with me. so the piece started there, and the rest came intuitively. symbols, color, posture—everything moved around that feeling.

the eyes? i kept reworking them. still not right. hands, too—they’re a learning curve. hands are volatile. they shift depending on your own mood, your own clarity. but i let it be. that’s part of this one’s energy—imperfect, mysterious, strong.

i use black a lot, layer colors instead of keeping them flat. even if something looks graphic or simple, it’s not. texture, shadow, light—it all builds up in steps. žynė isn’t just about mysticism, it’s about presence. symbols that feel lived-in. quiet power that doesn’t explain itself.