Serendipity is defined as “An unsought, unintended, or unexpected discovery or occurrence, made by accident and sagacity”…I like the last word as it makes me feel very wise…however it came about, accident or sagacity, this painting is defenitely the result of serendipitous circumstances…this morning I started new painting, a portrait with two faces in acrylic… I put the painting away to be completed later and started to clean up…
I took a sponge roller to the palette paper I use for painting, flattening the blobs of paint before I tore the sheet off to throw it away…as I rolled the blobs merged together, creating new colours…I remember thinking how pretty it looked and went on cleaning up…
I knocked off some paint from a brush on to the paper, then I took the painting knife I had used to put paint on the palette, and started to clean it by running it along the crinkles in the paper….I tore it off the pad, my hand poised above the trash can, when for some reason I stopped and stood there gazing at it…at that moment I realized that I had without being consciously aware of it, created a new abstract landscape….I don’t believe it was an accident…my movements were purposeful though unconscious….I call it "Serendipity" the portraits are still waiting to be finished..maybe tomorrow

Acrylics on Palette Paper