I had no idea what to paint today, so I just started randomly putting NuPastel on paper, and then I rubbed it in with a paper towel. Now I had an underpainting (of sorts) but didn’t know what to do with it — at first. Then I realized it reminded me of autumn trees.

My trees are cartoonish, but the whole picture is straight from my imagination, based on the colors and shapes of the random “underpainting”.