Whenever I am painting or drawing I often don't start out with any particular idea. I just start moving the brush or the pencils and let the drawing or the painting lead me. It's relaxing and nerve wracking at the same time to create in this way. Relaxing because the pressure is off. I don't have to worry about performance anxiety since it's not really "me" doing it anyway. I'm just following where the brush or pencils are taking me. So I can't take any responsibility or blame for what shows up.
It's nerve wracking because I never know what the heck is going to happen. Oftentimes I'll be in the middle of something and thinking to myself "Now where in heaven's name is THIS thing going." And believe me, a lot of weird stuff shows up in my artwork.
This particular drawing is a case in point. I have no idea why this woman is headless. And I certainly don't know where the dress came from. It looks to me like a cross between one of those push up bra sundresses women wore in the 50's and something out of an old space age cartoon series I used to watch as a kid called the Jetsons.... which I'm sure most of you reading this blog will never have heard of because it's a cartoon about the future but it was on the air in the stone age of my childhood!
It's a good reminder that I don't have to understand some thing in order to create it. And that it's enough to just have fun and to play and to create a totally meaningless piece of artwork!
