painting "Sirens" 2004
How do I create these paintings? What goes into an illustration?
I try to maintain an organic process with the way I create my work. If I feel inspiration for something, I create it. If I don’t have that twinkle in my spirit, I don’t push the brush to canvas. I try to eliminate the sense that it “must be done” so that my work no longer feels “forced” so to speak.
I wake up, watch some morning news, check my emails and my friend’s latest blogs on my phone, take a refreshing shower, eat breakfast (which usually consists of basic cereal and orange juice unless I’ve got the energy to cook something grand), and then I’m ready to start my day. I get excited and revved up to create. To me, this is the best job in the world. This is what I was made to do!
Selling my work has been an experience of it’s own. Right now, I currently sell many of my original works at auction on Overstock, and now I sell my fine art prints and designer merch at Etsy. By experience, these have been great places to offer my work and I’ve met some amazing people through them!
I believe that creating work should be meaningful. It should be worth something. Whether it’s a simple landscape or an intricate design, I put all of myself into that piece. Creating for the sake of keeping quota becomes draining and purpousless. Unless, of course you want to be like Warhol, and hire underlings to help produce work. lol!
Right now, I’m slowly but surely working on some new paintings. Today, I’m going to do just that. Paint!
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