As I said on Wednesday, spring this year is a little raw for me right now so I had to completely detach, unplug, and escape into the quiet world of color. And listen to music with no words again. And light some candles. And maybe all the blinds were shut all day.

These are new backgrounds for The Bird People Tarot Deck and it was therapeutic beyond words to get my watercolors and dyes out again and do some color experiments. I haven’t been in the low-key watercolor world for quite a while and I need to be in a totally different state of mind than when I work on The Museum Series. Since I knew I wasn’t in fighting form to start “real” watercolor paintings just yet, I thought this way by being more abstract, I’m at least sweeping out the cobwebs by putting a brush to paper and doing it not just thinking about it. Progress not perfection.