✨ "Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the LIGHT and that makes them beautiful." - Jim Carrey
Stages of Lotus in Bloom
4" x 4", mixed media paper
mixed media: watercolor, acrylic paint
wall/hanging frame
2022
👩🏽🔬 This was to be an experiment using only watercolor, but it ended up yet again as a layered mixed media piece. I'm still not finding that sweet spot with watercolor.
😵💫 While I feel like I may have a grip on using watercolor, I also hold doubts especially when I'm actively working with the medium. Watercolor doesn't seem bold enough for me to get the visual messages across, but maybe it's because I'm too timid to use more paint?? Or I'm using too much water?? Or I'm not allowing enough dry time in between strokes?? Or I'm not applying enough pressure onto the brush?? So many questions running through my mind as I paint & even afterwards.
🔆 In any case, this piece did not turn out as I expected but do they ever really? I'm really understanding that while I may have ideas, as I work with them in real time, that idea tends to evolve at a much more quicker pace than I can keep up with. I did worry at one point because I wasn't producing what I had initially in mind (what I had become attached to), but I reminded myself to let go of that strong hold.
🔥I ended up turning toward the inner LIGHT with putting trust in myself & the process, and completed this mini cutie!
- Subject Matter: Floral
- Created: February 2022
- Collections: Florals