Simply Complicated Design. by Stacy

Challenged with “whimsy,” I took a turn outside my usual path and went with fish (definitely not my norm), AND medium. (I need a bag of clay).

Laying down the scrabble tiles- easy enough… then came three coats of paint to reach that deep background, and satisfy my previous “that looks like crap” at each coat. Cutting out all those tiny fish? Let’s just say it tested my patience—and my eyesight.

Somewhere along the way, the words I had planned shifted. The fish became more than shapes—they turned into little carriers of memories and emotion.

And in the end, one of them refused to follow the well-traveled route. Completely unplanned… just the way it needed to be.