The piece with indirect light is mostly vibrant blues and silver greys against the gold and black pumpkin, the many other colors and contrasts come out in the light. I’ve since often taken up adding at least some contrast that’s visible all the time regardless of lighting conditions, but for this piece I think it metaphorically works.

WIP showing laptop playing a video of the pumpkin in the sea for reference of the motion and the piece taped to my desk

The postcard before modifications, a vertical white postcard with a square image of the sculpture on the edge of a pier overlooking the sea. On the right partially visible is a tray of iridescent watercolors.

Mixed media art, a postcard with a photograph of a yellow pumpkin sculpture with many radially symmetrical black spots is painted with inks and iridescent watercolors to make it caught in the tides of a vibrant, reflective seascape. The sea is bright saturated blues in various inky shades with textural properties — fluffy feeling steel grey silver sea foam, purple and magenta current reflections, metallic blue bubbly dots, etc. the angle from which the piece is viewed and the light hits it reveals new beauty in the tumultuous sea.