Saltworkstudio   Suzanne Edminster

In last Sunday's Sebastopol Center for the Arts Class, I was doing a demonstration of my very primitive negative painting so-called method.  I was trying to make a floral arrangement or perhaps some trees in a landscape.   I was painting upside down so the painting's "right side" was toward the class.  Sudenly people began calling out "I see a pig! I see a pig!" Many saw a pig's head with an alcohol splash ring on what I regarded as the pigs bu.... I mean, rear end.  So , in the end , a fat little boar of some kind appeared, a sort of Ferdinand the hog, sniffing a flower.  If you're a proponent of spontanaeity in painting, you'll get surprises, like it or not!