In response to my weekly newsletter that I sent on Tuesday, Maria Carluccio shares this composition with us, made of chopped up old watercolour paintings. “It was so liberating!” she exclaims.

“Out with the old, in with the new—reusing old art to make new art.”

“I highly recommend it as a fun way to explore colour connection,” advises Maria. “After I pieced these together I started thinking about how colours remind me of emotions and feelings so I wrote in pencil the first thing that came to me when I thought of that swatch.”

Maria is one of the 100 artists profiled in the UPPERCASE Surface Pattern Design Guide included in the spring issue (#21). The Guide is also available as a free download when you sign up for my newsletter—I’ll send inspiring content directly to your inbox once a week!