IMT Ice Tree

This week's Inspire Me Thursday's prompt is ice. A week ago, it felt like fall weather, so it was hard to imagine ice. Now, our winter storms are finally coming through. This was a photo of a tree out in our front yard from many years ago. The storm was windy, wet and cold. Instead of snow, we got ice. It was shot on print film and the film speed was too slow for the low light condition, butI scanned it in a few years later and played around with it and this is what I ended up with.

IMT: Control

Hi. My name is Paula and I'm a recovering control personality (I didn't want to use the word, 'freak' here as it seems too negative). Alright, already! This month's prompt for Inspire me Thursday (IMT) is control. I think that perhaps the best way one can really examine a concept is to do an excercise of the opposite nature. It is then that you are able to get a better understanding of what it means to have control, be in control and realize if you are addicted to being in control. My submission (Abstract Watercolor) is an excercise in not having control and not letting myself be in control. It is, really, 'controlled chaos'. An oxymoron? Perhaps...but, the process of being purposeful in not taking control of the direction of the piece allows me to get in touch with how I sometimes have to fight the desire to make something be that it really wasn't meant to be. It is a dance, or maybe even a battle between logic and intuition! This piece had been unfinshed for quite sometime before I picked it up again last night to work on it. I now consider it to be finished; I am done with it. I now have to control myslef to keep from going back to it to do just one more thing! Can you see why I picked this peice for IMT's 'prompt' this week?