I came up on cheap sketch pads and typing paper, on Saturday morning art classes that taught me all of the accepted forms of visual art. Those classes also taught me to respect other forms of art whether I understood them at that young age or not. I did a lot of poster-size masterpieces on illustration board. I had always looked at brush to canvas painting as the ultimate level of accomplishment. I thought it was hard.
Drawing is the basis of the artist's perception.
The Warehouse had come completely out of my mind. For the time when I did the piece, I feel that it was proper to have come from memory. I can look back at it and see just how quickly I grew in love with oil. I don't know about Degas and Renoir as major sources of influence. Though I feel vibes from all over the world.