Awhile back, I found this piece that I had turned a year or so ago, then cast aside.  I’m not sure what kind of wood it is or why it wasn’t finished.  Only think I can think of is it was very plain and I must not have had any inspiration on what do to with it.  Today, I pulled it back out and decided to try a different process for splattering it with paint.

For some reason, when the centrifugal force pushed the paint off the bottom of the bowl, instead of coming up thick at first and then starting to thin, it just came off the bottom on the bowl in very tiny streaks.  When it was done, I was just about to sand all the paint off and try something else when it hit me that it almost looked like grass.  I burned some dragonflies into the side, which I think helped.  Maybe it needs a caterpillar and a butterfly somewhere, too…