Honeybee

For my first post, I'll paint a honeybee. I'm using 6"x6" square format so I'll place my subject in the lower left "sweet spot", roughly 2"x2" from the lower left corner.

Next, I drew a curving line from my bee connecting it with the sides of the paper.At this point, I'm thinking that I want the lines to harmonize with the curves of my subject; I want them to point to my subject and I want to intersect with the sides of the paper at different intervals. The top line intersects at 1 3/4"  and the bottom at 2 1/4".  In good art, we want repetition with variety. Now, I can see an idea starting to develop.