This warm-up exercise involves writing stream of consciousness as a bottom layer, collaging followed by adding and activating watercolor crayon as a second layer, then covering that with gesso to keep building up the base leaving the top third of the page with more color/collage visibility. Then we added our word for the year (mine is balance) plus a symbol with that word in it. My symbol is a pair of wings with the word written as a border within them. The number 2s at the bottom play a dual role: one is to refer to the pair (of wings) and one is to represent the word 'to'. This piece was created through a class offered by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts Ltd. For more information, visit this link: www.willowing.org .