Midnight Bay quilt I use a butane torch

I use a butane torch to get cells of color to bubble up to the surface

The colors remind me of my kitchen growing up in California

It is one in a collection of four flower paintings

I love the dynamic movement in this painting as the fast-traveling cells must detour around a wall of large bubbles

Mixed media on Arches watercolor paper

Midnight Bay quilt I use a butane torchAcrylic paint on Graphix film 4" x 4" image (8" x 8" matted and framed behind glass) Midnight Bay was painted after a night swim in Mosquito Bay in Vieques, where microorganisms, the dinoflagellate, create a glow in the water when disturbed. In this painting, the inky water gently laps against the shore while these bioluminescent organisms sparkle in the dark. Midnight Bay is a small, framed, matted, poured acrylic painting behind glass. I begin by