{"product_id":"taking-flight","title":"Taking Flight","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaking Flight\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Schuerbeke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Acrylic on Canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\" × 50\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeanna Schuerbeke was looking out over the summer sky from her studio in France when this painting arrived. \u003ci\u003e\"I just felt so light,\"\u003c\/i\u003e she says, \u003ci\u003e\"and felt like my life as an artist was really starting to take off.\"\u003c\/i\u003e The painting glows in response — a warm ground of peach, cream, and blush fills the canvas with the quality of late afternoon light, and against it curved strokes of coral, orange, and red lift and arc in short upward gestures: the visual rhythm of a flock rising, wings catching air, the collective decision to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBut look closer at what is woven among those warm strokes: pure white. Not blended, not softened — applied boldly in the same curved horizontal gesture as the colors surrounding it, yet entirely itself. It is the lightest note in the palette and paradoxically the most grounded one. Where the corals and pinks suggest feeling, the white declares it. It does not float. It asserts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThis is what separates \u003ci\u003eTaking Flight\u003c\/i\u003e from a painting merely about lightness. Those white strokes are confidence — the steady note beneath the exhilaration, the quiet knowledge that what is happening is real. This is not the giddy feeling of a wish. This is the specific, grounded joy of something actually coming true.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWant to learn more? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/blogs\/meet-the-artist\/deanna-schuerbeke-painting-what-most-of-us-cant-say-out-loud\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Introduction Blog\"\u003eRead Deanna's Introduction Blog Page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/deanna-schuerbeke-statement\" title=\"Deanna Schuerbeke Artist Statement and Bio\"\u003eCheck out her Artist Bio \u0026amp; Statement\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg height=\"69\" width=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/subscribe-Blue_Small_de663c0f-8130-4c2f-9f75-ded826fa245c.jpg?v=1782319171\" style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/pages\/stay-connected-with-deanna-schuerbeke\" title=\"Stay Connected with Deanna Schuerbeke\"\u003eSign up to receive email notifications about Deanna's new work and where it's showing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deanna Schuerbeke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338037752028,"sku":null,"price":4800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/3933\/0780\/files\/1218TakingFlight60X50.jpg?v=1787777316","url":"https:\/\/nicartgallery.com\/products\/taking-flight","provider":"nicartgallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}