In Progress

So I thought it would be a cool idea to start posting photos of my paintings that are in progress.  So this is my most recent piece in progress.  I would consider it to be a little under half completed.  I haven’t started adding paint yet and I have not yet sprayed it with fixative for the first time either.  I usually spray my pieces about five or so times during my process.  Most recently I added the reddish orange lines to the painting.  They added some depth.

Being in the “zone” is critical to my work.  I have to have an absence of mind present or my paintings turn for the worst and I chop them up.   But when I am in the “zone”, great things happen.  I instinctually create when I am in the “zone”.  All my focus is on the painting. I lose track of time.  Progress is made.  

I don’t just start in the “zone”.  A warm up time is required before I can actually start working well.  If I start working too early I make bad decisions and I then have to spend my time correcting the mistakes.  I can show you parts in all of my drawings where I regretted making a mark, but that is beside the point.  When I am in the “zone” I don’t care about the outcome of my painting because I just know that it will all work out in the end.  The composition takes over and I make marks to satisfy the path the painting is taking.  It is a dance of sorts.

I don’t want to say that my work is fate driven but it feels that way sometimes.  On a good day I just do and discover later.  Like this piece for instance has turned into a woman entangled.  I didn’t see her until a day or so away from the piece but we will see where it goes.  I am personally curious how I will continue with this piece.  Will the woman stay or go? Will she just sink into the composition? We will see…

Comments

[Zane Miller]

So, I was just trying to pass out and I was thinking, my painting might as well be the direct representation, compositionaly, of my mind. Hmmm, I wonder what i will think of this when I wake up in the morning. Fact or Crap?

[Zane Miller]

I say crap... there is more to it.