I've decided that sketching in a "traditional" sense as in Prepatory drawings for a "finished"work of art doesn't seem to work for me in my process. I wonder if it's because of inertia or a kind of intuitive approach that has developed over time in a very subtle way. I find that every image I construct is a kind of preparatory drawing for the next one in the previous preparatory drawing is fodder for the latest image. There is no sequential order to them. There are no mistakes there is just image making. Some of them seem more narrative another seem near abstract. But they all seem to have in common is a dialogue between photography and painting, nature and the imagination, the subconscious call and the intuition. I wonder if other artists are working this way. I wonder if other artists will read this someday… Soon hopefully. It would be nice to have some people leave comments to let me know how they work especially if they are digital artists.
I found myself working on this piece late this afternoon. I don't think I've given myself permission to make an image like this in a while. The photographic or element is first hierarchically. It's kind of disturbing in a sense that I had stumbled across an image of a battle scene where a Grenade had gone off and shrapnel had hit a concrete wall. This image kind of reminds me of that. Is it a sketch I don't know is it finished work… I don't know. It's just in the way of seeing the world. And I hope that others will find these challenging or enjoyable or something else entirely that I'm not even aware is possible. I just know that these images need to be made.
