The road to Rainbow Kitten

Creativity can take you anywhere. That’s what I love the most about creativity.

Paint process green polka dots on brown paper (Copyright Hanna Andersson)

You know… Sometimes, when you’re sitting and creating, and all of a sudden…

Filling the view with green polka dots on brown paper (Copyright Hanna Andersson)

… you’re doing something unexpected. Filling your desk with dots…

Filling the view with some red polka dots too on brown paper (Copyright Hanna Andersson)

…becoming fascinated with looking at your hands moving. With your hands creating something that wasn’t there a second ago. With having hands! Wow, they move and make marks. I love the simple act of mark making. Creating patterns. To simply notice…

Filling the desk paper with polka dots too on brown paper (Copyright Hanna Andersson)

…where the mark making can take you.

Where you see new roads emerge, and move from one place to the next. Dots coming from within, making a turn to become something else…

Rainbow cat painting sideview on canvas, by iHanna 2013 (Copyright Hanna Andersson)


…to finally land on a sparkly rainbow. Becoming spotted fur. How wonderfully odd.

A rainbow born from your own creative life. And just like that, it’s finished, dots and all.

What a feeling.


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10 Responses

  1. there’s something about repeating patterns that are so meditative. i love the kitty! and i love how the paint in the first photo matches your nails so exactly.

  2. wonderful, it’s great when you can be in the creative flow and it leads you from one thing to the next and you lose all track of time. Yours is always so colorful, I love it!