from thoughts to things…

Thoughts…re-interpreted, Dreams…remembered, Life…re-imagined

Intuition, dreams, books, mythology, folklore, art, architecture, nature, faraway places, and nearby places…as near as my own yard. Anything, anywhere and anytime can inspire my art.

Once the seed of an idea comes to me, it helps to transfer the basic idea to a sketch. Scribbled on scratch paper, a sketch pad or a legal pad, it is not meant to be neat or artistic, as you can see below. It is meant to be a marker for the original thought and the emotion that accompanied it.

(above) Original sketch for The Seeds Of Winter. It’s messy, but the idea is intact.

SEEDS OF WINTER, 48” x 48” Acrylic on board panel

(above) As you can see, individual components of the original idea can take on a dynamic of their own. Case in point: The winter sun in the painting just seemed to grow energetically, dwarfing the tree, which is the opposite of the way they are in the sketch. Allowing is an important part of my creating process. Sometimes I just have to get out of the way, drop all of my preconceived ideas of what the piece will look like and let it evolve as it will. Although I had a certain palette in mind, as noted on the original sketch, the wintry blues evolved organically in this painting, evoking the feeling of winter.