Dottie — Petal watercolor

Dottie — Petal watercolorThe colour of a garden in the soft hours. Watercolour dots in layered, quiet pinks some larger, some smaller, all carrying the kind of gentle imprecision that makes watercolour worth using. The palette stays within a considered register: not blush white and not fuchsia, but somewhere in the middle where pink is at its most thoughtful. The variation in dot size keeps the eye moving without making the design feel busy. A gentle gift. The kind someone

even pressure

A circle holds a diamond

arranged in a quiet repeat on a white ground

Look long enough and it shifts

small dots scattered in the gaps between them

Already halfway to a Thanksgiving centerpiece on its own

The discipline of geometry with the warmth of something hand-drawn

which is the more interesting direction to go

or simply notices them

even repeat — not a single lucky find here

Or a surface measured but not yet marked

and unapologetically bold