Every mark, every spatter, every line is there because the artist intended the exact spot where it would end up or they decided to leave it there ” – a teacher or professor somewhere along the way.

 

Early mornings as a little kid you would find me at a table in the kitchen with cartoons on and a pencil in hand. I know it was still dark out when I would inevitably wake up my parents to show them what I was working on. I have been pursuing that free, spontaneous, pencil in hand feeling since then. There is nowhere I feel more comfortable than at work on a drawing. Sometimes with music, sometimes in complete quiet.

 

Sometimes the slow, patient, labor of realism. Sometimes fast and furious to get the right look and feel. Each style and technique involves its own special process. I finish rewarded by the process as much as the outcome. You can call this abstract expressionism or whatever you want but the goal is to draw an idea without planning or thinking and not care what anyone thinks about it… or taking a hell of a lot of time and being terrified of what everyone will think about it….