I recently sat at my dining room table and just knocked out a bunch of these little paintings, just for the sake of practice. Sometimes I get into a kind of groove and out of maybe 16 sketches, came up with a few that I like. The are a manifestation of wanderlust, which I more or less constantly have.
One day last summer I had to kill a lot of time in a windowless waiting room, and I was restless and bored out of my mind. I can read on a plane for 6 hours without looking up, but this was a long stressful day spent in a really dull and uninspiring space. Then I remembered reading somewhere about boredom being good for creativity. Maybe it was here. So I decided to try and channel my boredom into something creative using the tools at hand, which naturally, was my iPhone
I took a bunch of abstract photos of cropped sections of magazine pages, and then ran the photos through the Waterlogue app. Waterlogue makes your image look like a pretty great watercolor. Here were the results:
