Sooo it's Ron's February Stuckism Month. I hear you are in good company. Does what you hear inspire what you will paint or is it the other way round (mood and music first). A few hours per painting is a full day of painting breaks included?
Are dancing while you paint? Lots of fun!
Does what I hear inspire what I paint?
Sometimes, yes. More so the titles and definitely the “feel” of where I’m going with the piece. I like to think of my work as a daily journal. History was my major in college, and social and personal (geneological) history has always fascinated me. I believe artists should paint the times, their times. Even if their time is a landscape or a vase of flowers. Lucky for them if it is! I’m more of a rebel to the world I ended up in—so I often paint via feelings of estrangement to the culture I can’t deny but wish I could:)
On average I paint 5 hours a day, and take a day off on Saturday or Sunday. And yes, I dance in the studio. But with great highs come intense lows. I also keen and weep on the floor, as the cat looks on like I’m in a death throe:)