Each piece I make starts with painted paper and ideas about color combinations I would like to try out. One of my art students gave me the beautiful blue paper (on the left side). She was painting with her granddaughter and a large amount of blue paint was knocked to the floor. Rather than wiping it up and throwing it away, she soaked up the color into a sheet of watercolor paper and gave it to me, knowing I would turn the accidental spill into something beautiful. Blue with pink (both neon and blush) is one of my favorite color combinations and I like to mix mid-century modern inspired shapes with painterly marks and botanical forms.