Sketchbook

Lately the work in my sketchbook has been . . . different. In that it exists at all. Normally I don't bother to draw. A few cartoons here and there, and that's about it. I draw directly to canvas when i paint and I have a hundred sketchbooks each with no more than two or three pages full. And lately it's all changing. In the last week I have filled several pages, but I thought I'd just start with the latest full page.

I was always partial to creating these alien landscapes. Regions that represented thoughts and ideals. And then a week or so ago I was looking at one of them. A painting from several years back called "Genesis". This piece was collaboratively created with Alana Reddin. She provided the "seed" of the painting by creating a small form on a portion of the Masonite I painted the rest of the piece on. The form she had created looked like a seed/fetus/heart and so I used that to inform the rest of the painting. Creating a cave with rib like protrusions on the wall.

Looking at the piece again recently inspired me again, with a piece that I'll post later, a piece more "biologically" driven than the earlier painting, and that piece led to another, which led to this. Right now I am trying to decide if this piece will have a life outside my sketchbook or not. Will it become paint? That decision probably won't be made until after I decide if the piece means anything.

I can't say I'm happy with the quality of the image presented here, maybe I should have scanned it, it seems that a lot of it's nuance is gone. Then again, I don't want copies of it stolen for nefarious purposes (what those could be I have no idea) so perhaps this is for the best.