This one starts with a photo of a metal plate of some kind that I found during a walk, maybe it was on a sidewalk. I believe I wanted the raised bumps in a grid pattern. I could see it used as a background like this. I also believed, I think, that I might do something with the label 'Made in U.S.A.' I layered over the photo a photo of a small section of a very large painting I made on butcher paper when I took a two-week course 3 or 4 years ago at Penland School in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, USA. The reddish circle in the original painting surrounds a lovely pale tourqois color eg shape and is surrounded by variations of that blue color. I've wanted to use that small bit of a painting as a model for a huge painting. So, maybe this is one small step towards scaling it up.
By the way, I used the smudge finger feature in Procreate to soften the edges of harder-lines and I used the airbrush feature to lightly touch areas I wanted to brighten a bit or to tone down an area. I toned down the Made In text using the airbrush and smudge, letting just enough evidence of it show but not shouting out anything. In general, I don't use text in my art work. I haven't liked messaging so overtly like that.
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