Painting

Painting is tricky business.

I always get ideas when I take breaks from painting regularly, and when I get these ideas I think they will be great when I get around to making them. But when I try to actually paint the idea in a painting, it is never as good as I thought it would be.

I also get ideas when I am painting regularly, and these ideas are based on the way I am handling paint and whatever theoretical stuff has me worked up at that moment, and these ideas usually make very interesting painting sessions, and hopefully interesting paintings too. In my judgement the paintings normally exceed my expectations.

The difference between the two is knowing the material you are working with intimately.

As I am getting older, more world weary, and wiser, I am starting to know myself better, and in that process I can admit to myself that I am smarter at some times than others. For instance I am smarter about painting when I am painting...

This painting was born during a period where I was looking at the Hairy Who from Chicago a lot, and I was also into my friends paintings, Dan Attoe, and Josh Podoll. I was also painting a lot, and now, four years later, in retrospect, it all is pretty obvious that I was not some romantic genius struggling to express himself, but instead someone who was interested in things and trying to understand those things better.