Here's my painting "Expectant Buds" that won the People's Choice award. It was fun and validating for me to win the award and also to have my painting bought by a lady from San Antonio who was very excited about hanging it in her home.
It is a special one for me, because it is one of my "intuitive" or spontaneous paintings. I started out with a fresh piece of watercolor paper and lots of tubes of paint before me. I went by "feel" to orient the paper and select the paints I felt drawn to, without a preconceived idea of what or how I intended to paint. On wet paper, I freely applied paint and water from the brush with my whole arm, and let the colors mingle on the paper, responding at a gut level to the painting as it evolved. Then after it dried, I added contrast and definition, attempting to create interest without impeding the freedom and flow of the underpainting. I enjoy painting this way and in this case enjoyed the results too!
