Acrylic on Illustration Board.
Unframed dimension: 20″ x 27″.

Silky Mitts: hockey slang referring to a player’s hands, often described as ‘silky’ when a player has great skill with a puck. Sweet hands.

Women’s hockey is demanding, skilled and fast. To compete at any level in this sport requires strength of mind and body.

Endless hours of on and off-ice training through injuries, losses, and setbacks builds the personal character and skill needed to perform the dangles, snipes, toe drags and smooth dekes that help bring a team victory.

The triumph of that warrior spirit is summed up here in one single image of the worn out hockey glove…and a little nail polish.

See prints of this original painting here: HKY GRL: Silky Mitts