While working on various portraits and such, I'll often test the density or color of a mixture of
watercolour on small chunks of Arches or Waterford. Which I used to fill up on both
sides, and then discard. Eventually I realized that these splashes and swirls of color
were sort of intriguing, pleasing to the eye in an abstract way.
And though I have no particular aptitude for it myself, I'm quite fascinated by the descriptions
of objects people, particularly women, see in these abstractions. I could, and in fact I did,
spend hours listening to them.