More On Butterflies

  While working on the butterfly project I realized how much I enjoyed not only folding of the paper but the coloring of the paper as well. This process is so simple and so gratifying. The colors that can be created and the designs on the paper could be so beautiful. The process is as simple as taking a wide but shallow container, filling it with water, spray painting the surface of the water and dipping the paper into it. It's easy to make so many of these in such a short period of time and that’s probably why I have over 100 of these brightly colored butterflies taking over my house.  

 

  There’s just something about the colors and shapes that can be created from this process. The lines that are created, the natural forms, organic shapes, and the fact that, yes, I set up this process, I sprayed the paint, I dipped the paper, but how it turns out is really all out of my hand. The designs on the paper aren’t forced; their effortless and natural.

  To me, art has always felt like something that creates itself. Whether or not it’s something that’s meant to happen or it just happens on its own The paint doesn’t always listen, the clay might go flying off the wheel, the photo wont develop like you want it to; that’s a big part of art to me.  Those important little accidents that help you to find what you’re really doing, what you really want to be doing.