I’ve been trying a few new things for the upcoming art swap, and I turned my practice pieces into cards for Father’s Day.
I was working from a photograph and with my limited palette of inktense pans for all of these.
A couple more, just playing around (copy practice)…
You are so great at these lovely little vignettes. Every one of them is enchanting.
Thank you! That’s so kind of you to say. I feel like a total noob, just splashing color around. 
They are beautiful! I can’t believe you’re new to this type of painting.
Thanks! I’ve dabbled with acrylics for years, but these paints mix, move, and layer in ways I find almost inexplicable. It’s chaos! I like it.
How did you do the stars on yours? They’re intense pieces. Is intense the right word? It’s bringing memories of places.
I use a small, cheap, rough short-bristle paint brush, damp, and loaded with acrylic paint. I push most of the paint out, then use another large brush to strike the handle of the small brush…short, light strikes, while holding the small brush firmly. It makes for a light mist of droplets. I managed to paint everything within an 18" radius of the paper. 
Those long-exposure photos pick up all the stars.
Your Milky Way paintings are so beautiful.
these are absolutely gorgeous!
Splatters are so much fun. It’s why everything I own is covered in paint!
loading up an old toothbrush with paint and using your thumb to flick the bristles is also a fun way to do splatters
Having a limited palette sure hasn’t limited your creativity!
They are lovely and quite evocative…there is a feeling of peace and wonderment…
Like @geekgirl , I love splatters and use an old toothbrush as well as an old fan brush to splatter…including clothes, furniture, floor…lol
Beautiful effects you got!
These are beautiful. Whoever gets you in the art swap is lucky. Each and every one of these is frameable.
They’re all so moody and ethereal! I love them so much!!!
Thank you, everyone!
I have used a stiff paint brush and flicked it with my thumb, but I tend to get more strands than I’d like with that method. Maybe a toothbrush would be better.
Someone coined a word to describe the sense of wonderment one gets when looking up at the night sky - novalunosis. It’s an interesting word.
These are just stunning. That glow at the tree line is 
This is what I do, too, with white acrylic ink. It gives me the least amount of “stringy” splatters and is just the right consistency. It does tend to get everywhere…
These are beautiful! Luminous and lovely 
I think half the fun of watercolour is that it has a mind of its own and I’m never completely in control of it 
Thank you!
I have a LC crush! Amazing!
Your project is out of this world! That’s why it is one of this week’s Featured Projects! CONGRATS!
Thank you!
