The Passion

on my easel is a blank canvas. 2′ by 4′ and covered for the third time with gesso. this painting from feeling and emotion is very elusive. I see emotions in colors, not just color but colors. I dream in technicolor and awake with a mind full of intention and invention. grey, black and blue swirl in my head over this canvas with the subtle face of a woman with a piercing eye of multi-color gleaming like a jewel at the viewer.

to begin this work, to get it from my mind to the canvas requires a conducive environment. music is of great importance. the music creates the emotions to paint. hard rock brings bold strokes and bright colors. classical emotes subtlety and refined colors.

often i begin with rock and roll and finish the painting with classical or for a powerful ending, opera! so now the canvas waits for the music of my heart and mind to compose my brushes. it may end up with more gesso covering another attempt, but the painting that is meant for this canvas will find itself through me. maybe some enigma on the stereo will begin a journey… time and brush will tell…

…On one sunny morning several months later I saw her in the swirls of yellows, reds and oranges. A vision of lovely memories and dreams that sat in the recesses of my passions.