So I finally managed to finish this piece of art and I felt a lot of joy because it is a work that I started back in 2025, when I enrolled at an art university a couple of hours away from my town. Of course that things changed as I gradually lost mobility in the right hand as a result of taking the feared red devil combo known as epirubicine and ciclophosphamide to treat a cancer that I was told that I have back in august 2025. Whoo hooo so much on my plate yummy yummy:)))
I dropped the university and to be honest I would have done it either way because it was not what I expected it to be. I had a period of time when I stopped working on this art and then I resumed my work as I wanted to keep myself occupied during chemotherapy sessions.
It is incredible for me to notice how time flies when I just put headphones, take my isograph and work. If I would not had dared to take a leap of faith and try to go to university I would not have tackled anatomical illustration. It just never crossed my mind to try it. After the episode of losing my mobility in october 2025, starting from my knees and then continuing with my right shoulder and hand, I have gained a new appreciation for the human body. To this day I look in awe at my own and feel like I deserve a Nobel prize, together with my Creator that I call God, for being able to squeeze a lemon. We can take a lot of things for granted and only realize how precious they are once we lose them.
So I sketched the skull and then added watercolour. I wanted to make this painting my own so of course that I bedazzled it with plenty of dots. I had a realization a couple of days ago while visiting a botanical garden: my handwriting looks very similar with the kind of writing you would see on botanical vials. Cute, huh? I was probably a botanist in some past life.
So this is it. Finally done. After many many hours of work. I have a couple more of these started back in 2025 and I will finish them this year because I have gained a new respect for the human body. When it works for you as easily as you can't even tell say a blessing because you are a miracle in motion.
