A Rare Day

Watercolor painting.

Black ballpoint pen, #2 pencil (for shadows), traditional watercolors, and watercolor colored pencils.

The central idea in this painting was to recapture a kitten's (or child's) sense of wonder about the world. Of course, adults are so used to "wonders" like glass, fish, light-bending water, and the great outdoors that I had to tweak reality to get the adult audience to feel the same level of wonder that a child feels when seeing the ordinary world.

Hence, this picture has a handful of impossibilites, ultra-vivid colors, and three tessellations...all designed to reawaken adults' sense of wonder.

Note my initials, "SAB", on the memo pad tucked under the goldfish bowl.