Round 4. This time, I wanted to work on smoother paper, so my ink mark would catch the grain of the paper so much. And I experimented with splattering by hitting the brush on my finger. It hurt at first until I figured out that if I turned my finger so I hit the fleshy part, it wasn't so bad. You would think I would know these things at my age! I had to add a layer of gansai tambi towards the bottom to make the colours more vibrant. Thinking of the Milky Way.
I felt I was able to direct what I wanted to express by writing the words that were coming to me in watercolour pencil on the dry paper before I started painting. It's a form of ephemeral mind-mapping. I can't remember the exact words, but I can feel their energy through the painting.
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