Most artists create their own energy.
They drive their inspiration into their materials.
Their focus on creating something new or developing variations on a theme.
I think that ART is a rare product that evolved and changes.
It is never stagnant and repetitive.
That is one draw for most artists.
They crave the change
and the force within to be that change.
When working with slow drying paint, ie: Oils
they move it and deliberate the canvas by melding and changing the image over time.
When working with a faster medium, ie: Acrylics
the medium dries faster and it layers faster.
It gives mobility quickly.
The energy devised by a medium is translated by that artists approach.
It can be structured, measured, and scaled.
Or it can be random, and spontaneous.
I enjoy the variety that I have to work with on the canvas.
I enjoy many thicknesses of paint.
Varied viscosity.
Varied translucence.
I enjoy layering paints that stain,
or float over each other.
I enjoy more liquid paints for top layers to run past paint and then
stop with lighter weight layers over them.
I scrape alot of layers.
I dig deep on the canvas and remove them and play with the remains.
it is a paint and destroy method that I learned from a prof
way back when.
He is talented and used thick paints and blends them with gesso.
He was driven enough to develop a method of painting that fed his muse.
I am driven to play while I work.
To let the paint play.
To create without force.
I am not too tight inside the lines.
I never ever outline anything.
It is too controlled for me.
My drive takes me to be looser with my creativity.
To blend and combine paints and scrape them away.
I am driven to make my art, my way.
The true DRIVE in this business of ART.
