Have to say that today was one of the most otherworldly I’ve ever had in the studio. Dragon painting.
I’ve been working on Garden, and today was the time to advance our Chinese Dragon. Crazy, but I want him to FEEL real in this painting. Given the source materials at hand, I can either reproduce a sculpture of a Dragon, which won’t feel like anything but a sculpture,
Or I can extract an essential feeling from all the sculptural forms I’ve seen, and launch into DragonWorld. Sounds Nuts … right … but that’s what I did … I thought, ‘if these sculptural forms depicted something alive …. how would it feel?’
Never done that before …. here’s the product so far …