The Scrambled Brain book is done and now it's time to step back into the studio !! Before the accident, I was mostly focused on creating realism style of watercolor painting, some imagined and some from real life or with photo references. After the accident, when I tried to paint in the same way, I became confused - couldn't remember how to mix colors, how to for see composition and proportion, how to establish the best water to pigment ratio for painting. I lost my skills and got intense long lasting headaches when ever I tried to paint. Ugh!! it was frustrating and exhausting. Even before I could have even dreamt, post accident, to do such complex skills, the scrambled brain (process art) was spilling out of me, being my voice when words were hard to find. I used watercolor crayons, which made it much easier for me to put color down. Using a much more primitive approach and much different style. I continue to challenge myself, to re learn basic brain organi...

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