Aquatic Starbursts...

...found while imagining shapes in the deep blue sea...

...and then magically transforming them with moonbeams.

This piece

started as a small watercolor demo in my mandala class

to show the special effects made by 

drawing with masking fluid...adding deep rich saturated color...

and then heavily sprinkling it all with sea salt.

(Click on images to enlarge.)

I loved the end result...

so much so, that it just begged me to be flipped

in Microsoft Digital Editor

for an additional dash of panache.

 I totally enjoy artistic surprises, don't you?

“The moments of happiness we enjoy

take us by surprise.

It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

~Ashley Montagu