Your next painting could use shapes -look at painter Pete Hoida's 'Doctor Viper' 149cm x 109cm, to achieve a different effect, and try different materials, like coloured paper, cut out shapes ...

Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transporting paintings defied ideas about abstract art. By the time she painted this mysterious work in 1975, Miyoko Ito — the ...