Today is a day of creating. I go down to the studio, a big area (30ft x40 ft) filled with lots of light. I smile as Lily runs in ahead of me as I open the door. She immediately beings sniffing around the floor and the edges of the building to see what has been here since we left.
As Lily sniffs, I start setting up for the day. I choose a playlist from my phone and connect it to my speaker. Music starts flowing from the speakers and I can’t help but embrace the beat of my Classic Alternative station and dance over to my racks of acrylic paint. I pick out my favorites of the days, Turquoise, light blue, lavender, and other beachy colors. i set them on the table, pick up a larger container of white. along with a few brushes and some tools to spread and move paint with. I put them on the table covered with bright paint splotches from past creative days.
I spread out the tarp under the table and sashay to the music over to the canvas rack. I pull a big canvas of the storage rack and flip it onto the table. I slash the plastic film and begin pulling it off the back. As soon as I get the frame exposed, I start working the giant push pins into the wood. Once they are all placed, I flip the canvas over and throw away the packaging materials.
White goes down first – dampening the surface of the canvas. Pools of color are poured next. Some big. Some small. I grab a 12 inch tape knife scaper and move the colors around. Making swirls and moving them into each other. I grab my hair dryer with the oblong blowout attachment and being moving and thinning the color into large hibiscus-like petals that are being blown gently in the wind. I grab a bottle gold paint with a thing, pointed gold tip. I outline and define the petals with the shimmering gold.
