"It's a Beautiful Day" This tree and little bird emerged as I was attempting to do some "intuitive" painting. I took a class a few months ago from the fabulous artist, Tracy Verdugo, to learn how to do this style and technique of painting. Boy, has is been challenging for me! I truly, truly love it though ~ you never know where you are going when you start out or where you will finish. Below are some pictures of the evolution of this piece. To start out, I divided the canvas up into squares and chose some colors I wanted to use. Some squares were dark, some lighter. The images and marks I made are symbolic to me. I had just returned from a trip to the ocean and had never seen water that beautiful. It totally inspired me! In this step, I added acrylic inks over the entire piece. Cool colors on one side, warmer colors on the opposite side. You can see how some of the marks still show through. This is the tri