I agree with Melissa, I found that the cognitive ethnography was interesting. As an artist, we are constantly looking at other artist work, thinking about: What were they thinking? How did they do that? What is their process? And What is their inspiration? The idea of doing drawing studies in an informal setting, the wild, was fascinating.

I liked how each artist had a different jump off point, and an entirely different work of art. However, when they were broken down into the node diagrams they had some overlapping components. Overlapping in the sense that they all revisited at least one place in their drawing and that they all jumped back and fourth through out. The science behind drawing and what our brains does while we do so is fascinating. Even on my visual response I have now had some ideas for my projects and layers that I want to try in other works of art. This all happened with great a 10-20 minuted period which is astounding.

So I accidentally started using micron fine points to make intricate designs and the gouache ended up washing it all away. I really liked how they looked and I’m going to be putting them back in my work as I layer everything in the next couple of days. I have been looking at Heather Day she is a young abstract artist from the west coast and I really love her work. I’ll post some images soon. For now, this is what I have. img_0019 img_0021 img_0022 img_0023 img_0024