"WAITING FOR INSPIRATION" OIL ON CANVAS

 

"Waiting For Inspiration"

I have produced hundreds of scribbles, sketches, drawings, cartoons and paintings over the years, yet when someone asks me how I come up with ideas for work I tell them I'm really not sure. A truly original idea for a piece of art is always a gift from somewhere else, and you just hope and pray it might happen again. I have thought about this subject a lot lately, about where inspiration or stream of consciousness comes from. The result is a large oil painting titled "Waiting for Inspiration".

This large oil portrays a painter sitting on the floor of his studio adjacent to a large blank canvas propped up against the wall. A dirt road runs through the middle of the room, past the canvas and off into the distance The painter I guess is me, waiting to thumb that lift, to take that ride, to catch that inspiration before it passes through.