Then the music came...

Around the same time as I started messing around with the tusch, then I also got introduced to some music, and I may introduce you to that later on. And with that, then it was as if my desire to paint just exploded! I felt so inspired and happy.

So one night I grabbed a piece of watercolour paper and clipped it on to my easel, and just started to drip the tusch onto that. I watched the drops as they drew the incredible black lines down the paper and I got butterflies in my stomach. It was just an incredible process and so simple. Very, very, very wabi sabi!

I facebook'ed a lot that night and got some amazing feedback too on the pictures of the process, and I just felt that I could go on for days, doing just this…

And here is the picture, I'm going to make more of these. And you can buy it if you like (only 650ddk)! Its really, really cheap!

Where THIS actually started for real….

I turned 40 6 weeks after moving back to Denmark after 11 years in London. And arranging a party was the last thing on my mind. I was so busy setting up the flat!

But then I panicked last minute and thought that I can't just sit on my own on my birthday, so I quickly booked a restaurant, and started ringing people to hear if they would come. I got about 25 people together which was just perfect!

Then my guests of course also started asking what I wished for, and I couldn't really think of anything! But then it hit me that I should ask for "stuff for painting". And Oh My God, I got a lot of stuff! I also got some vouchers, for a really nice local art shop, so I went down for a snoop, and grabbed some random stuff. One of them was a bottle of tusch, and I had no idea what I was going to do with that.

But then soon after, I just opened the bottle and started dripping it on to a canvas, and I got so excited. I just absolutely LOVED the way the tusch drew big fat lines on the surface as it made it self its way down, dragged by gravity. It is making one hell of a mess, but who cares! I added a bit of white acrylics to before i started dripping on the paint, which makes the tusch behave a little different. God it was fun!

And here is the first attack with tusch, its hanging in my living room now.

How the obsession started...