P&P Thursday- NOT an Octopus!

Happy Palette & Paint Thursday (a wee bit early;))  I'm way behind this week, in terms of making art, but here I am at last with a WIP for Tammy's wonderful book!  Because these books are open to interpretation and have no theme it can be a little challenging to come up with an idea for them!  I originally wanted to do something featuring an octopus, but it just didn't work out this week.  Never fear, there will probably be an octopus in one of the upcoming books, because I did a LOT of research and came up with a LOT of ideas...Just nothing that felt right for this book.

BUT, what to do with this book?  

I felt like I was out of ideas and really, have I ever HAD a good idea and for that matter; why the HELL did I ever decide to be an artist......was getting ready to really wallow in self pity and then, BAM, it came to me!  Because I had been thinking of octopi and them having 8 legs and that led me to thinking of numbers and them my weirdo little brain started thinking about how much I like stars.......well, what if I did a night sky with numbers instead of stars and so I started sketching and here's what I came up with.

Have you ever heard Einstein on the Beach- very cool modern opera...

anyway, that was playing in my head while painting this.....

 

 My plan is to make it a little less monochromatic and then I have to paint the background pages with a quote- something about counting blessings....it will be attached in pop up format and I might, might do a tutorial since every time I do pop ups, people ask!

 And here is my extremely monochromatic palette- I assure you it will have more color tomorrow!

 

For now, try to stop by Tracey Potter's blog to see last week's P&P entries!

Have a great day!

Stephanie