I start out with absolutely now idea where I'm going. Do others do that? I'd welcome any comments. Do you have a more or less visual picture in your head? I realize that you can stray from the idea, but perhaps at least you have one.
I don't, and I'm not so sure that's a good idea. I just look at the canvas and start applyin paint and often the result is horrible. Early stuff was so bad I'd paint over and over on the canvas until the whole thing was a mess.
Then I went into this geometric thing: all circles and lines--using tape of course.
It was the painting equivalent of erasing the first sentence of a story or article you were going to write and so in the end you had nothing but erased out paper.
Soon enough I started......
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Confessions and revelations--and questions--of a would be artist, with no formal training, who is often stumbling his way toward at least moderately respectable abstract canvas and graphic arts. The Untrained Artist has a website: http://www.abstractinclinations.com/
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