I GOT FISH...

Here it is girls - my fish... I have a lot of ideas 'running' around. My first thoughts after I saw the picture - apart from 'crikey' - was the arc of the dolphin and the colours of the fish - it made me think of a rainbow. Then that thought 'travelled' onto 'round' and things that go round. I am really into symbols - so what was round and colourful and a symbol - mandalas. A few years ago I was really into mandala art - not making - more looking. The concept and philosophy behind mandalas fasinate me. I am not sure where all these thoughts are going or if they are just the first of many, but that was my inital reaction and I wanted to share it with you. Whilst I feel 'challenged' by this challenge it also excites me as I have taken a big step into the unknown. I am a very basic crafter - but because this challenge is 'outside the square' for me-in as much as I only have a picture as my starting point - the rest is up to me - that really inspires that part of me which is the artist. The promise of things to come - I feel a bit like Dorothy on the yellow brick road to Oz.