A New Painting…
Since returning from Spain I’ve been absorbed in painting. I’ve kept the label painter despite having seriously painted only two or three times in the last ten years. However, with newfound inspiration, I slapped through a whole slew of painting styles in a couple of days, churning through a bunch of ideas I’d had in Spain, only to watch them collapse on canvas.
About the time I was ready to send my brushes through the canvas and permanently scratch painting from my resume, I was reminded of Matisse. He claimed to always look for the fundamental, reoccurring trends in his art, and paint to those fundamentals. 
With that in mind, I returned to the style and ideas I enjoyed painting ten years ago. This new painting, “Creativity Leaves Me” came quickly, but I feel I’ve been painting it subconsciously for a number of years. When I look at the sketch I made, and the finished work I’m surprised it worked. This process (or lack of process) is probably why I prefer acrylics. Oil or watercolor would have required me to work out much more of the finished piece before starting, and probably killing the work at the same time.
I hope to have more paintings available soon, as well as prints.
