rue jacob

Here’s what happened to my failed painting. I used it as a test bed for some ideas I had rolling around in my head:

I tried drips from eye droppers, drawing with eye droppers, and some pencil work that you can’t see here. It was fun. I didn’t feel bad about trashing $15 worth of good paper! Afterward, I decided to flip it over and did this quick painting:

I laid some branches on the paper and traced the shadows from them. Then painted it with a mix of burnt sienna and black. Here are the branches:

As you can see, I don’t keep the neatest studio. It’s the “primordial soup” from which my art arises!