Juliet Hannah Art

I have been working on something new. A jellyfish pointillism piece and it is a lot of work. Like, a LOT. But I am here for it. I know it will take me forever to finish and honestly I have made peace with that. A new piece I started this piece earlier this year at an open studio gathering. I wanted to make something, pulled up some jellyfish references on Pinterest, and just started dotting. My previous finished piece was a koi fish so staying in the water felt natural. So far so good A fine marker and a whole lot of patience is all that is going into this one. So far I am really happy with how the colors are turning out. That part feels good.

It is a question I have asked myself more times than I can count. Do you wait for the mood to hit or do you just show up and make something anyway? There are days when art flows naturally. And then there are days when life just gets in the way. A few missed days turn into weeks. Weeks turn into months. And before you know it, months turn into years. Some people are okay with that. For some, art is optional. A hobby they pick up and put down whenever they feel like it. And that is completely valid. But even after a long pause, the craving comes back. That quiet pull towards creating something, anything. Your whole being starts to miss it. Not just the making of it, but the feeling of it. The joy of simply creating.

Sometimes you just want to create something. No grand plan, no deep meaning behind it. Just that quiet feeling of wanting to make art. So I went to Pinterest looking for something that would inspire me and this flower caught my eye. I used it as a reference, picked up a fine marker because it felt like the easiest thing to reach for at the time, and just started dotting. Then life got busy and the piece sat unfinished for months. Not dramatically, just quietly sitting there waiting. Early 2025 I finally picked it back up and finished it. How it came together Pointillism is equal parts meditative and maddening. Every dot is a tiny decision. Too close together and you lose the lightness. Too far apart and the image falls flat. There is no rushing it. You just have to keep going. Just patience and a lot of tiny dots.