My paintings don’t appear fully formed.

They emerge after thousands of brush strokes, missteps, and serendipitous mixtures of color, texture, and form. If you asked me how or why I did a painting a certain way, I might not be able to explain it. My process, in the moment, is a hard-to-explain combination of instinctive-ness and deep focus.

The sketches and studies below give you a peek at my process, possibly an insight into how the messy early stages gradually lead to an intelligible form. These are unfinished and incomplete, but I never intended them to be complete. Even so, I like them. The forms were done at an atelier with live models, and I think you can see how I’m picking up different details with each study I did. I suppose I could sell these sketches, but I certainly wouldn’t expect much. In fact, I painted one these on foam board; hardly the norm, but it served its purpose. A sale was never the idea behind these. I think of these jottings are more like exercise, as a test of my painter’s eye.