I drew this from a photo

[lunatica]

12. The photographs that attract my interest

are always ones that I feel show something about the subject’s personality. When I do paintings or drawings of well known people it takes me a long time to find a photograph that satisfies me. I’m very picky and choosy in this process. If it looks like it’s posed I reject it. So the personality is already evident in the photograph.

And I prefer to tackle poses and gestures that are a challenge. They force me into my right brain, or as I refer to it as ‘the zone’. When I’m in that zone I cease to see hands and see only interconnected lines. Then I take a look at it when I’m no longer in the zone and it looks like hands. There’s a lot of switching back and forth between my right brain and my left brain. You need both to create art.