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I go to a lot of places, especially in the USA but
it's a conglomeration of the Midwest where I'm from -
Chicago, Milwaukee and living out here so long. They sort of get crossed over.
So, it becomes its own sort of reality.
I just had nine months off.
Going back and forth between here and the Midwest. I did a lot of water colors. I
did about forty of them in the last month and a half I was there
and I've been working all along. I got very much art work done in nine months.
Because that's what I first area doing since I was a squirt,
and I did it all along so I never changed, I'm still like a 6-year-old.
It drives people crazy. Going back there in the summer
it's kind of like Dickens finding a Ghost of Christmas Past but I found that in the
summers past it was quite amazing. It's really
stimulated my painting. This is a really great thing to do in life
I think I made up my mind before I was born I was going to do this and now they're
going to have to drag me kicking and screaming because I don't play along
doing anything else. I refuse to give up my crayons.
I've studied painting a lot so I can't pick out any one favorite painter
but there is a whole line of them
but I think the most recent one fortunately enough lived in Healdsburg. His
name was Richard Diebenkorn,
who I learned about in college and
for some reason I ended up here seeing a lot of his paintings which was a great
deal.
I think that he was probably one of the more important painters and I just like
to look at his work and see if I can grab anything from it and
make something new out of it. I work in a studio
and I usually work from my invention or my head
because I've looked at thing so long now that when I look at a photograph or
try to go on it's more fun doing it this way because you kind of get to know
how things look after a while.
It's more fun making up your own world
instead of the one out there.