Dolphin Pond

 About the same time that I was working on 'Falling Leaves' (see previous blog), I was also working on this painting.  I was using yupo paper and experimenting with a different color palette. 

I dropped (or really 'glopped') in yellow and blue and then sprayed it so it would run down the paper. Of course, the two colors made their own green. I am always curious about what paint will do when I spray it and let it paint itself. 

I wedged it upright with a piece of wood so it would continue to 'paint itself' and left it to dry for a day.

When I came back to it the next day, it had changed a little, but not much. 

I wasn't sure what I might be looking at so I began to turn it around in different directions.

Someone in my art group suggested that it looked like dolphins swimming! I could see that, but they were swimming off the paper...

I turned the paper around and wanted to add something. I don't really think dolphins would be found in a lily pond, but I was feeling playful... and started painting in some water lilies.

Now the dolphins are swimming in the other direction through the water lilies! Think 'abstract'...  I added a few more lilies and decided that enough is enough. 

I recently read an encouraging blog that said sometimes you need to keep going even though you think you are finished. And, sometimes you need to stop before you think you are done! Not sure which this is...

'Dolphin Pond' probably could have gone in several different directions, but I had fun with it.