What is your gut telling you?
"I like what I like. I can't tell you why, I just do." That was my Dad's oft repeated saying about Art. He was a huge fan of Norman Rockwell and one of his favorite books was a book of Poetry illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Dad liked a 3d painting of mountains and a lodge in Japan, it was given to him as a present from an inn keeper in Japan and was always up in the house. The styles could not have been any more different but he liked them all the same. I do find that the different mediums I work with all inform one another. For instance, I find working in pen and ink makes me think further about composition and design as the medium is so direct and unforgiving. I know that I've barely scratched the surface of Pen and Ink. I enjoy studying the many moods of the ocean. The power of the waves. The color and the shapes in the rock and in the surf, the reflections of the sun and moon, the mist, sea fog and foam, and , the movement of the waves crea