Evolution#5: update...Less Fire, MORE GLOOM!

So! Worked on this one a bit more....she's starting to come alive! Usually around this point is where it starts to form seemingly by itself, sometimes not even with my own input. It's weird...you get in a "zone" during the act of painting and in time the painting comes together similar to what you (the painter) were expecting, but then again it's even better. Not to mention that even with such painful ideas it only gets more fun. And then, for the time being, no pain! No rage. It's all been puked out onto canvas. Works every time! She's not done quite yet, but she's almost there.

Evolutions #5: FIRE!!!!!!

Here's a new one I started about a week or so ago....It just needs to be done. I have felt so frustrated and tied up trying to control things i am not meant or able to control. And I also felt/feel everything so overwhelming that "I've had it up to here!!" doesn't suffice. Only an image could. So I began this. And it really is helping. This is a one-off kind of painting I sometimes make on the side during a creative block...but the act of starting and finishing them in a much less realistic, more abstract, visceral style helps to jump-start my imagination again. And it sure does feel better.