Art for Art's Sake

I like to experiment when I make art.

I have had no art classes, except one in my freshman year of high school.

Today, I got the bug to create.

I thought I would play with making yard art to hang on the fences

to keep my dogs from fence fighting with the neighbor's dog.

I made over ten pieces today,

using various painting techniques.

Some with brushes,

some with spray paint.

I gave myself permission to experiment.

It was a blast.

I love it when I get so engrossed with what I am creating

that time slips away.

One piece,

originally a mistake,

came out to be my best work of the day.

I never gave up on it.

After blending all the colors together

to create a monotone background,

I let it dry a bit, and worked on another piece.

When I came back to it, 

I suddenly knew what it wanted to be,

bamboo.

There is dimension to the piece that a picture cannot capture.

You'll have to trust me on that one.

The long, slender painting won a place of honor on the wall inside the house.

I decided to move some other pieces of art around.

A wood Picasso like figure of a woman that

I made fifteen years ago while I was learning how to play with a Dremmel

seemed to be a likely mate. 

She told me she liked bamboo too.

I love mistakes.