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Traditional Art / Paintings / Surreal

13x13" acrylic on illustration board.

"vocem' is Latin for 'Voice' in case you were curious.

I've been trying to carve out more time for my own art these days. I've done so much illustration that I felt I needed a little more balance, allowing my own creativity time and an outlet. When given the ultimate freedom to paint whatever I want feels a bit overwhelming to me... where to start, where to settle? So, I have continued with my experiment of painting without planning. I prepped the board with a neutral grey and just started making random sweeping marks across the surface. Much how one might see shapes in clouds, I started to see things in the brush strokes and then proceeded to flesh them out. I liken it somewhat to those stream of consciousness writing exercises, perhaps if I do enough of these I will see some patterns. I had a lot of fun with this one!