This one and the next have a darker background and some dark red added to the palette. I think this one is spooky, it reminds me of a nightmare.

I altered the my planned schedule to publish this one on Halloween.

Initially most of this series had a lot of chaotic detail, such as in the previous post, Metallic Flow #4. I like a messy arrangement of many small details. I made several, and even though each was quite different from the others, they felt too similar. I cut a dozen completed images from the series for that reason.

This one and the next, similar to the first Metallic Flow #1, has much lower density.

I snuck in a few extra colors here.

I overlaid blue/white on this one.

This series features mostly gold and silver palettes with frozen flow and turbulence.

My year in art, part 6.

I have described two operating modes. One is experimental freedom, just do something and see where it goes. The other is setting some rules and boundaries and then explore that limited space in detail. I like both, not at the same time, I bounce between them. The current series, Lazy Nights, is solidly in the "rules" camp.

This site has been around for over 25 years. The last full reset was in 2019. In the last 4.5 years I put together 42 different series. (Wordpress calls them categories.) There is a wide range of free rein series and rule based series. As I look over the history, I like the rule based, bounded, series better. I have several ideas I hope to explore for future rule based series.

OK, too much talking. I have about ten more pictures planned for this series. I will be posting them with little or no comment.