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This piece comes from a photo I took during a shoot with my High School Photo class. My students and I were excited to find a moth on a Black Eyed Susan bloom. So many of us gathered around the poor thing that it got scared and flew away.

If you are not familiar with the work of the artist Paul Klee, you should look him up. I’m very interested in his abstract squares paintings. When I started planning how I would approach the artwork, I did not have Klee’s work in mind. As it unfolded and I experimented with different ways to combine the flowers with a more abstract background, it evolved into something that would fit over my mother’s avocado green 1970’s mission style furniture sofa. After the background was mostly finished and I stepped back to see what the composition needed, it hit me that the squares are reminiscent of some of the work Klee did.

The squares are a combination of layering Derwent watercolor colored pencils, Prismacolor colored pencils and watercolor to get some of the interesting textures and colors.