Evolution of nonsense paintings.....

OK I forced myself to revisit Jesse's painting techniques. For some reason I have been fighting what i learned. I am so structured with my art...it is very hard for me to just let it go....let it evolve into whatever it wants to be..........These are my attempts......

The background...

Making designs from the shapes I see in the background....
Then, in between, but no picture, I tried to paint "The Woman Who Laughed At The Snakes In The Tree".....but alas - she looked like a cat with long hair! ..... and I couldn't draw her a decent body... I wanted something flowy and angel or maybe even ghost-like....

Turning it into a lion with spiders body. This idea didn't last long....

So I made her into a balloon, and I added another snake.

...more painting....

...and there you have it "The Balloon Who Loved the Tree and Laughed at the Snakes"....Done!

The above blurry image is the only photo of what this canvas started as.
It was tissue paper on canvas painted to look like flames. Then I drew images onto the canvas suggested by the colors and the shapes. I wish i had taken a picture then, but it was so gawd awful ugly I just kept the pregnant lady and gessoed over the rest. it was a mess!...and because I used black prismacolor, (instead of the special pencil that was recommended - typical me) the paint would not cover the lines i had drawn. Finally I varnished over the whole painting and gessoed over this...... at last I got the old ugly design lines to disappear.
This is what remained.

I didn't like the pregnant lady's stance, so I changed it. But she didn't look right pregnant, so i changed that too. I painted in a colorful background and then decided to put a dark glaze on it so that all of the texture could show through. The result was really blaH bleh!,,, so I ripped off a ton of the crummy texture and then gessoed over that, and left this:

But I still didn't like the leg positions or the background, so i tried again.....

Then I came up with the concept of adding the earth.

...then I added the stars and more background.

This is the finished painting ....at least for now!
"The Girl Who Leapt From The Earth and Found Her Star"