The Sorcerers Apprentice

36X36 Chicago, IL  There is so much magic around you both. I did listen to ‘Rooms on Fire” by Stevie Nicks the whole time I painted this. There is a lyric in the song “There is magic all around you if I do say so myself.” “Fluid grace under pressure” was the phrase that kept coming to mind. Christine & Kyle as you are both teachers you probably have 500 kids between you, and Tom and Louise. When I think of Christine my memory shows me a young woman conducting a symphony, when her friends at the time her age threw bowling balls off of second-story houses for fun or turned over garbage cans just to laugh. Christine always had grace far beyond her years, and Kyle in my vision it’s like you bring the ease and playfulness to that grace. It makes you two an unstoppable match, and how rare to be the adult conduits for young adults to learn about themselves through the art. It’s a miracle really.  Traditionally a symphony has four movements, four distinct parts. First the brisk, fast &am