"H" is for Heart - A to Z Challenge

"H" is for Heart. When Farrah Ferand, my heroine in Evening of the Dragonfly, decides she wants to paint a heart composition for her one-person exhibition, she intends to create an artwork titled "Happy Heart". She has always been fond of heart art and now has her high school students working on heart paintings.

"Emerging Heart" ©Mary Montague Sikes

However, as she works on her painting, she grows sad. After all, her romance with Dirk Lawrence isn't working out as she hoped. There are more complications than she knows how to handle. Now, she doesn't know if she will include this 20" x 16" painting, "Emerging Heart", in the show.

As you can see, Farrah is torn between two art styles: her work in acrylics and her watercolor paintings on canvas. Perhaps she will have settled on a style by the time she completes the paintings for her exhibition.

What do you think about "Emerging Heart"? Should she include it in her art show?

For those of you who have just joined this blog journey:
Evening of the Dragonfly is a novel set in the 1980s, a time less complicated than today. Farrah Ferand has a high school art teaching job in a small Virginia town. She meets Dirk Lawrence, a businessman from the city, who takes an interest in her and in her painting and is helping her build a studio over the garage in her rented home. Farrah is thrilled to have the studio because she has a one-person art exhibition scheduled. As she works on new paintings, Farrah realizes things about herself, her relationships, and the tragic loss of her mother. We encounter some of her realizations as new paintings and parts of painting are unveiled each day during the A to Z Challenge. My book is available in trade paperback and as an e-book.