I am working with her now on a children's book, direct verbals of her imagination. This remarkable being is a creator. I wanted to paint her embodiment of this state. The four black and white studies below are spontaneous expressions, beginning with pure energy and working into tonality and form. This is one of the underlying layers in every painting I do.
Most paintings have up to eighty layers of intention.
Each layer must have this same sumi consciousness. As the layers build other paintings are created. Each has its own spoke, spark, finger, probe, confabulation into areas of exhilarating connection, sparking the electricity of ignition born, vision and life. In each layer there is no preconception to the form that the expression will encounter. Each experience with the tone grows of its own partaking of a zest of diverse wonders that exist.