Interim Blog Post

For this project I have really been following my previous goals of just going with my gut and seeing where my artistic mind takes me. I have spent the last couple weeks exploring and trying out new ideas, each one different from the previous but with similar ambitions. I have been playing with ink directly out of the bottle and using that as my paintbrush. Then I took a pencil and played with pulling the ink out leaving some pencil marks behind.  I also played with the energy of the piece adding some flowing marks and dripping marks to juxtapose my crazy pine bee hive like motions.  I feel like at this point I have three or four different series. I plan on focusing on the more formal watercolor painting and hopefully bringing in some of my previous more colorful, whimsical pieces into this painting to juxtapose the more formal watercolor.  These are my intentions thus far and I hope to bring both ideas into my final piece possibly as a few series or as a single piece.