I started to paint when I graduated from high school. I came across a large wooden board that was meant for the trash, put it on my bedroom floor and just went to work. Since I found this canvas in the trash I had no pressure to care if what I was creating was good or not. I lost myself for a couple weeks in doing whatever seemed pleasing. After that I started on a trash to treasure mission. Whenever I saw scrap wood or scrap plywood in the streets I drug it home. After a few years I painted on my first canvas and started to experiment with different kinds of paints. I’ve developed a style of painting in which I like to use acrylics, paint over them with oils which can be easily layered and manipulated.
In almost every painting I come to an uncomfortable place; I don’t know what I am going to do and I don’t know if I even like what is going on but I keep pressing on (sometimes I step away for months or days or minutes) until I create something out of it I can be happy with. Such is life. Glad to be able to share it with you all and my most favorite art, the art of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
When I start a painting I have no plans. Sometimes I have a strong emotion to express sometimes not. I have an interactive conversation with the canvas starting with a line or a shape, it responds back to me and slowly becomes something. I like the meditative process that moves through my head as I pan
In almost every painting I come to an uncomfortable place; I don’t know what I am going to do and I don’t know if I even like what is going on but I keep pressing on (sometimes I step away for months or days or minutes) until I create something out of it I can be happy with. Such is life. Glad to be able to share it with you all and my most favorite art, the art of Traditional Chinese Medicine.