Playing is a good thing. When the newest colors of Ranger’s Distress Inks first came out my friend brought them to club and let us all play with them. I grabbed a piece of white paper and just started sponging the colors on in a rainbow pattern just to see all the different colors. I was so happy with the finished “background” That I started pulling out some of my stamps to “finish” the piece. What started out as just a color sample has become one of the favorite things on my studio wall. I call it “Raindance”.

It seems that a lot of my favorite works start like this. Just some random colors applied to paper with no plan for what will come next. It is like the color takes on a life of its own and just tells me what to do next. Color has its own language. I swear it speaks to me.