I painted this on a 5.5 × 8.5 sheet of cold press 140 lb paper. No washi tape. No frame. No “plan.” Just me trying to shove my brain into a different room for a while. Decision point: sometimes you just have to figure out when to stop. I lined up my usual watercolor brushes—0,…
I set out to paint grass.Just grass. Maybe some lavender. Nothing heroic. Reference material: memory. The budget kind you collect while driving to work half-awake, watching roadside fields blur by like they’re trying to escape your life choices. Cornfields. Early spring. Scrappy wild lavender in little pockets—wedged between asphalt and agriculture like it’s trespassing on…
The Naming Test (With Flowers Doing the Dirty Work) This looks like soft watercolor florals. It is. Kind of. This page was my scratchpad for two tests: watercolor control and the name that became ACFA Creative House. It’s also a behind-the-scenes snapshot of how it actually gets born: not from a lightning bolt, but from…
Overview This one’s lives in Imperfect Creations where it belongs. It didn’t make the cut and I’m fond of looking back at the messes I make to see where I progressed or regressed. Painted on cold press watercolor paper (5.5 × 8.5), taped down with washi tape to create a clean frame and keep the paint from bleeding into the…
