The yellow just threw itself in there, honestly!

Okay, so I couldn't leave that blue picture alone...

I went back to it late last night to integrate the tree and put in some extra highlights.

I had no intention (ever) of including yellow. I don't even like yellow that much if truth be told - it's probably my least favourite colour - and there were certainly no yellow gold rhinestone stars in the plan! But when I went back to tinker with it, the yellow just kept insisting I try it, and I think it was right. I even quite like it (my eyebrows rise in surprise!).


Apart from playing with texture and trying out some of that bubble-wrap and coffee-jar-cap painting I've seen in the work of others (cool effects!), I wanted to do a piece that expressed something about the way I feel about creativity, so I like that a little paper heart snuck itself in there too. Wasn't planning on that either.

Trees and text and butterflies and stars and hearts... Right, admittedly there's no really original imagery here but I'm okay with that.


I think it's done now. It's as done as I can make it anyway. And I don't hate it.


I think that because I approached it so very much as an experiment, I was not too attached to the result and that was quite liberating. I try to approach everything I do that way but I'm not always very successful and do often feel quite defeated if I hate how a thing turns out. So I'm glad I don't hate it. I don't love it either. But that's also okay.

It was fun to do and I would like to practice with these free form (slightly random) paint effects a bit more. So I'm going to try some of this combined texture stuff in my visual journal and then go back to the red and brown canvas...