ever since Pam was here, I've been really practicing my painting techniques that she taught. it's been fun to explore using them in my own way. this was a page in my journal that i had started out by with some spray painting (did that a few weeks ago).
randomly i painted in a face and as i was painting the white in, i felt the stuff around her face looked like hair, so i just incorporated it instead of painting in hair. to me, the orange blob on her blouse looked like a koi , so that is why a random koi fish is swimming across the page!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJybCEhQlAcKX_a8ZchDzDzV-qckrJwaLe3Mygz7hyOy1-zczVq_rfQs1AOtvGNDq8QsP_v6Jv4zBHcXRRfl9egDS2OJuXMhpwm2lDON5lr4-AH2s9myPy9bHLt0TZi5QxGwOvU02S3aP0/s640/IMG_7737.jpg)
randomly i painted in a face and as i was painting the white in, i felt the stuff around her face looked like hair, so i just incorporated it instead of painting in hair. to me, the orange blob on her blouse looked like a koi , so that is why a random koi fish is swimming across the page!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJybCEhQlAcKX_a8ZchDzDzV-qckrJwaLe3Mygz7hyOy1-zczVq_rfQs1AOtvGNDq8QsP_v6Jv4zBHcXRRfl9egDS2OJuXMhpwm2lDON5lr4-AH2s9myPy9bHLt0TZi5QxGwOvU02S3aP0/s640/IMG_7737.jpg)
Irene has come and gone with minimal damage. we were very very lucky as we didn't even lose our power (we are usually the first to go!) I am so grateful for that because Tucker requires suctioning and we just don't want to not have power, ya know? someone was watching over us for sure.