It is my pattern to allow my imagination to run rampant through my head because that is how new ideas for artworks appear. When those ideas do appear, I ASSUME I will be able to paint them. That assumption sometimes gives me big headaches because I have no idea how to get the affects I need to make a work come alive. Well, that’s what has happened with these bonsai tray landscape drawings.

I haven’t painted tree bark in decades. So what have I been doing to resolve this? I’ve been watching videos online, looked at art books and practiced, practiced, practiced. Now I am finally ready to work on the painting.