Montaña de Oro

About this art  This was art made in the margins of my life and in the margins of the paper I use.  When I was pregnant with my third baby, I would bring my watercolor set with me wherever we would go. Just a few paints, when we would go to the beach or the barn, I would draw and work on intentional pieces while my older two children played or fed treats to our horse. Over time, I started noticing, that on the second page, the one catching the extra paint, where I would dry my brush to knock extra water off… that the brush would leave these soft, dreamy watercolor marks that had a life all of their own. These blotches were so beautiful, just flowing together and becoming little secondary paintings, like they wanted to come into being too.  I started this process when I was so very pregnant with my third baby (Delphina), sitting low in a chair, moving slowly, while my kids played in the river that flows into the ocean by our house. Just as the paint was soft around the edges, I was too.