Sometimes you have to make a lot of small things before you can make one big thing.
My studio days have been spent in deep study and thought. It may not be clear to all who
visit the studio, but everything is leading somewhere - the studies are a map exposing
direction. As an artist I need to experience my future choices in some form before they are
made or executed in a long term work. The studies below assisted in the realization of the color drawing featured in the July 19, 2014 post of this Blog:
My studio days have been spent in deep study and thought. It may not be clear to all who
visit the studio, but everything is leading somewhere - the studies are a map exposing
direction. As an artist I need to experience my future choices in some form before they are
made or executed in a long term work. The studies below assisted in the realization of the color drawing featured in the July 19, 2014 post of this Blog:
New painting in progress, acrylic and ink on Yupo, 18" x 24"
Vine study, maker and pen on paper, 14" x 17"
Grey Sunflower study, graphite and ink on paper
Green Sunflower study, ink on paper, 14" x 17"
“…I am a fervent adept of the religion of facts. It has been said innumerable times, and I have also repeated it, that “facts remain and theories pass away…To observe without thinking is as dangerous as to think without observing. Theory is our best intellectual tool; a tool, like all others, liable to be notched and to rust, requiring continual repairs and replacements, but without which it would be almost impossible to make a deep hollow in the marble block of reality."
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
