Sometimes it’s fun to challenge yourself:  can you make a painting in a very limited number of strokes?  Say, 15?  I decided to try it the other day.  I placed three shells from my beach-combing stash on a sheet of paper and attacked, carefully plotting color and placement of each stroke.  At 15, I was itching to do ‘just a few more’ to beef it up ‘just a bit’, but gritted my teeth and concluded the effort.  Here it is, along with a snap of the shell subject.

In keeping with the spirit of the test, I made only a few light guidelines for size and placement, before constructing the design via ‘color-shapes’.