Art Chowder November | December 2016, Issue 6 | Page 20

When you are working on a project do you
see the finished product in your mind beforehand or it is an evolution?
I have a couple different ways that I compose pictures. Sometimes, I see the completed vision in
my head and will develop it either by drawing or
doing it digitally. The other way is a more intuitive,
random approach, where I take a few colors and
throw them on a blank canvas using lots of water
and allowing the color to do its own thing. After it
dries, I will look for images that I see in the canvas,
kind of like looking for images in clouds, and then
I paint whatever I see. While being careful not to
over think the composition and allowing the canvas to present the content, I find in the end these
paintings always have a multilevel cohesive theme, which seems to reflect deeper parts of myself.

Do you feel that living in the Inland Northwest has any influence on your career as
an artist?
I love Spokane and the local area. It is truly one of
the most beautiful spots on this planet. Growing
up here, by a little lake in the mountains of Eastern Washington, I have gained a great respect
and appreciation for nature, the environment and
the wildlife. While it is a conservative community,
it has kept me somewhat isolated from the rest of
the art world and think it has been beneficial in
giving me the opportunity to explore and develop
my own style.

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