Last week I spoke about fear as it relates to my painting process. Fear motivates me in a strange way to do easier things as a step towards doing harder thing. In the case of my current painting obsession (Pilot #4) my trepidations about starting a new and complicated drawing series lead me to work on this Pilot…

I often do a painting project that I’m afraid to attempt after first completing several easier less scary pieces. This is a process that has developed lately, and stems I believe, from a thinking that my every step in my art career needs, from here on, to be very calculated in order to maximize success.…