The tulip blaze is an experimental painting, one of my trial-and-error series. Where the original idea doesn’t start developing in the way I intended. This is where I started experimenting with brush strokes and mark-making that were not intended.

Knowing that there are no expectations on how this should turn out from this point, it frees me to play more, with no restrictions, with no desired outcome. The only challenge becomes knowing when to stop, when you see something appear that was never planned in the first place.

The brush strokes from the bottom up to halfway started to visually represent a bush, a shrub. Also appearing to look like a blaze of fire continuing up. I wanted to continue this plant/fire vibe throughout now. Painting pink abstract shapes on top looked like tulips, even ambers from the fire floating through the air. Leaving me with a pleasant surprise that the painting has a chaotic, while soothing feel throughout, creating a lovely juxtaposition.