I am a pareidolia artist.
What does that mean?
I let the shapes on the canvas tell me what the painting needs to be.
My Process
I prepare space and canvas for the tremendous, glorious mess that’s about to occur. All the paint needs to be the texture of honey with a perfect flow rate. I choose a pallet of colors that suits my liking, and then choose a liquid painting technique to experiment with. I take a moment to center myself to provide the perfect moment for the paint to do some thing spectacular.
Then I dump it onto the canvas. I swirl it on the canvas. I scrape over and drop down onto the canvas. I run objects over the canvas until the paint does something I like. I stretch it over the canvas through movement, and then step away -for days. Over those days, the painting morphs. Subtle movements and balance points change expectations.

Once it dries, I look at it over and over again, turning it in examining from all four directions. I’m on a treasure hunt for imagery. What can I see in the paint? I choose images that make me happy to paint . Once I get started, I remove colors and shapes that distract the eye and I enhance the ones that speak to where this painting is going. This is an example of what a painting looks like after it has dried. But before brushwork:

Sometimes a painting happens and I don’t feel a need to enhance it further. I want to leave it the way it arrived on the canvas. This here is one such painting. I’ll tell you why —I see so many images in it! It is a gold mine of imagery. Besides, if I painted them all in, the canvas would look pretty nutty. Because of this, I want to leave it so that you can have the same enjoyment I have when I am searching for icons in the imagery. This treasure hunt for pareidolia is so much fun. What do you see? Please tell me in the comments.