Sometimes I get a craving for certain colors, just like some people do for certain foods. Makes sense I guess, since I do have aphasia where I actually taste colors during a migraine headache. My senses of taste and sight must be closely connected even when I am not experiencing aphasia. Anyway, today I was craving metallic gold.

I made this painting up as I went along. I like the way it came out. If I did it again, I would plan the metal scroll work better. But overall I like it a lot.

This was part of the AA2022 challenge. My goal is to paint every day. Some days I will paint the tutorial offered by Cinnamon, but some days I just have something in my head I want to paint. Today was one of the latter.

The word prompt was Night Bloom. I thought about how beautiful the hair combs are in the Chinese and Korean historical dramas are. I also thought of the image of a woman taking the combs out at night, her long black hair falling down, like the petals of a flower blooming. It seemed like a really symbolic image of the night, and all the romance of it, blooming.