This is an original painting in acrylic and marker on un-primed gallery wrapped canvas. I like working on un-primed canvas because of the neutral background it provides. It's always possible to add white where you want it, like the splotches of white in the upper left and lower right. It is a layered composition which the different layers interacting and informing each other.

The first layer is doodles in sharpie marker, with ovular shapes traced around and around again as a method to coax my brain into a meditative flow state.

Another layer is a sort of dyed layer. I get the canvas wet, really working water into the fibers, and then drip and pour high flow acrylic onto it. The water in the canvas breaks the surface tension in the paint, pulling it into the material and creating a dyed effect with smooth, delicate gradients. This is the tricky bit about talking about layers because though this layer happened after the doodle layer, it works itself in behind the doodle markings.

There there was another doodle layer done in a more expensive type of paint marker for darker blacks and pigments that really sit on the surface instead of soaking into the fabric. There's also some flower / firework activity in pink paint marker. There are also some playful doodles; a couple of cartoon alligators, arrows pointing away, Miró stars, and some words in cursive which were floating in the ether. The words say "even when you try to do good" and "over like a lead balloon". They are not particularly important, but people like to read, and I think they are a bit poetic.

Then we get into the poured paint. It's a lot of yellow and white mixed into an acrylic pouring medium and poured directly onto the canvas, then pushed around with a silicone wedge tool. There's a bit of blue mixed to green, and a bit of magenta, but the painting is overwhelmingly yellow. The black and white circles come last. These are made by dripping fluid acrylic in black and white into pools of wet acrylic pouring medium.