I swear my cat is my crazy maker. While I was painting this painting he was digging through my plastic bags, clinging on my office chair, and mewing a heck of a lot. It was hard to pet him mostly because my hands were covered with paint.
My keyboard has paint finger prints on it. I guess that's bound to happen when you use your laptop as a display for the landscape that you're trying to paint.

I did quite a few studies on dragonfly wings, and also dancers, trying to get into the idea of what a fairy would look like. I started with something more illustrative in my smaller piece but then moved on to something more abstract.

I like to think I'm communicating with artist spirits as I paint. When I don't know what to do I ask them for the next step, and the answer comes to me. I know that's a little weird, but it works for me.