But the artwork itself we can't plan. I have a great love for painting on wood, I love the grain of wood, I love to paint with the grain, and I Iove the things that result from it. Right now I'm painting on a piece of sculpture that was done on wood. Sometimes I put a color on it and it doesn't look right. I respect that.
Art is more gratifying.
I don't have a script or I'm not working by a man's concept, but by my concept. Both parents marched under the banner of Pancho Villa and were driven north to Texas in search of peace and freedom. Their journey took them from cardboard box hovels in El Paso, to migrant worker shacks in California, and the impoverished barrio of East Los Angeles. The barrio was just a few miles from Hollywood, but light years away from the glittering, glamorous world of movie stars that would one day bestow upon him their highest honors. I am teaching them now about brush strokes, to do it and leave it, and not go over to correct it.