To me, the idea of always being open to exploration is much more enticing than confining myself to the same kind of decisions over and over again. It is what keeps me coming back to painting again and again.
I wanted to be able to paint anything. In any style, with any brush, in any program, particularly with tools that I do not know well. Precisely because they will allow me to explore, and thus discover (the greatest joy of life) things that my analytical mind would not have access to.
I think I would be missing the point of doing these digitally if I would treat them in any other way. And it would get so boring so fast, sticking to formulas, that I would most likely prefer to do something else instead.
I've been painting for many, many years, and I've done my share of thousands of sketches and a few hundred "finished" pieces. Still, no matter how many times I've seen it, the moment an image comes together, there's a kind of magic that never gets old, a transcendental feeling that I have only encountered in music, the supreme art form. There are no words to describe it, and I cannot get enough of that feeling.
Here's another result of my explorations of brushwork, color, and this time, the simple scribble, something that I enjoy so, so much!
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