IRIS –PAINTING PROCESS 1.1 PATTERNS OF COLOR AND BRUSHWORK
This color blue is delicious. It talks to me.
Listen to that still small voice, trust, take the first impulse and run with it. Be patient and see where it leads. Be proactive versus reactive. Mind positive and in a state of gratitude for what I have in the painting. This style of work you are going on a journey, an adventure. Unexpected surprises along with way. That is what makes it exciting.

Painting patterns and spaces in-between, this style of post-impressionism is how I am using large patterns. I like the color combinations and seeing how they correspond to each other.

Here I use a brushwork starting with thicker paint to allow for a modulation of paint to flow through different areas that enhance the modulations of line drawing in the work.
Look for patterns of rhythmic energy with the pushing and pulling of positives and negatives against the patterns while drawing in space.

When it feels right, then I put the color in. Holding the brush not too tight, I call it grasping the butterfly. Transmit through the brush caressing the canvas with your signature strokes. Amplify what you have naturally using north, south, east, and west brushstrokes; with choreographically swirling dynamic strokes.