Maintaining A Foundation
Oil pastel on paper sketch.
Practice is important to maintain the skills I learn along the way. I make it a point to continually maintain my practice as a representational artist as I pursue my nonrepresentational practice. Maintaining my representational practice aids & informs my abstract work.
Some artists are content with repeating themselves, but not me. Exploration is in my DNA.
This is one of my latest figurative sketches. I created this little study a couple of weeks ago as a means to continue my figurative practice.
Continuous exploration of ideas and media applications allows me to push my artistic practice; it allows my art to stay fresh & relevant. The evolution of style is inevitable, so why not be an active participant in the process?
One of the reasons I love Degas’ artistic practice so much is that he continued to explore new ways of achieving new perspectives in his art. He never stopped pushing himself; exploration was his goal.
Oil paint on archival paper.
Poor Jenny, Soft Pastel on cardboard.
