photo by Craig McDean via twistedlamb

Inspiration comes from a lot of different places, often unexpected. Fashion photography is a frequent source. What I see in this image may have nothing to do with the clothes, the model, the design or the intention of the photographer. I get texture and color and morph them intuitively into alternate forms and rework the composition. They get filed in my mind and resurface as something from my own world.

So something like this becomes a shorthand. I use technology sometimes to manipulate pictorial elements, but often I go through this process mentally without executing a study. I always learn something with each painting. Even with digital manipulation, something often occurs to me, which I previously had not realized.