Always experimenting, always seeking… we must continually be on the hunt, listening to our work, honing our senses to whatever awaits.
Self-Performance
Self-performance is a means to an end, where the trembling limbs must yield to the steadiness of hand, and the pains of torsion battle against concentration and a desired vision. This threshold is a breaking point, the limit of what is sustainable, tolerable, bearable...yet necessary. Through the short days of frigid Winters to the long hours of steamy Summers, the artist twists, contorts, bends, shivers, aches, and sweats to the music of his media.
The Nude, always from Life
Working from life should be priority number one. It is a bond artists have shared since antiquity. This awesome thread of humanity remains unbroken in the studio, in front of the model, entirely unfiltered, and in our purest state: the Nude.
Research
Research is the very foundation of work. From the smallest sketch to the largest monumental painting, every work presents a learning curve. Color scripting, pose research from life and the imagination, value composition, color composition, preparatory drawings, and non-visual research, including reading and studying, are all part of the process.
