Better Than Inspiration

how to get going when stuck

from my Grief series; egg tempera on canvas.

“If you are not playful, you are not alive.”
— David Hockney

For the 30 years when I didn’t draw a single thing, I kept waiting for inspiration to arrive, fully loaded, ready to entice me into action. I would be so profoundly moved to paint that it would happen automatically. I thought – it will show up and then