What kinds of things function as seeds fir paintings?
Inspiration is like a piece of fuzz it kind of comes up and makes a desire and an image that causes me to want to paint it. Or I can be going along and see an old Band-Aid in the street, and you know how an old Band-Aid is. It’s got some dirt around the edges and the rubber part has formed some black little balls. and you see the stain of a little and maybe some yellow dirt on it, a little ointment. It’s in the gutter next to some dirt and a rock, and maybe a little twig. If you were to see a photograph of that not knowing what it was, it would be unbelievably beautiful. What’s your policy on color? My policy is that I don’t like it, maybe because I haven’t learnt to use it properly. Whatever the reason it doesn’t thrill me it looks cheep and goofball. although I like to do brown and brown is a color. I also like earth colors and sometimes I use red and yellow the red is used for blood a lot and the yellow is used for fire. What about your painting is distinctly American? The subject m
