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Step 1: If you drink, do so.
Step 2: Get out a sheet of paper. You may prefold it, but it doesn't seem to make a goddamn difference.
Step 3: Dot it with watercolor.
Step 4: Add water. Move the paint in the shape you hope it will look like.
Step 5: Fold in half. Crease the fold.
Step 6: Realize that you started doing this at five in the morning. Hell, realize you woke-up at five after a dream about making ink blots.
Step 7: Realize that you are becoming the height of artistic obsession, or just plain obsession.
Step 8: Flatten the image slightly. Try to move the paint in the direction you want. This might involve manipulating the air bubbles to create texture.
Step 9: Swear:
Step 10: Throw it with the rest of the rejects you haven't thrown away yet.
Step 11: Try again.
Step 12: Try out some of the not-so-horrible ones. Realize that it doesn't look horrible horrible. Wonder what to do now because step 13 was supposed to be "try again", not "try it out in a frame."
Step 13: Try again anyway because it's still not good enough.
eta: annnd, finished.
Step 2: Get out a sheet of paper. You may prefold it, but it doesn't seem to make a goddamn difference.
Step 3: Dot it with watercolor.
Step 4: Add water. Move the paint in the shape you hope it will look like.
Step 5: Fold in half. Crease the fold.
Step 6: Realize that you started doing this at five in the morning. Hell, realize you woke-up at five after a dream about making ink blots.
Step 7: Realize that you are becoming the height of artistic obsession, or just plain obsession.
Step 8: Flatten the image slightly. Try to move the paint in the direction you want. This might involve manipulating the air bubbles to create texture.
Step 9: Swear:
Step 10: Throw it with the rest of the rejects you haven't thrown away yet.
Step 11: Try again.
Step 12: Try out some of the not-so-horrible ones. Realize that it doesn't look horrible horrible. Wonder what to do now because step 13 was supposed to be "try again", not "try it out in a frame."
Step 13: Try again anyway because it's still not good enough.
eta: annnd, finished.
