Days Between Days

What imaginative territory do you occupy?

Generally, I don’t stray into superheroes or full on horror, and though some of my drawings are clearly fantasy, they generally aren’t quite as committed as, for instance, the great DND artists.

The other end of my imaginative territory is bordered by the surreal, the abstract, and the romantic, which is where this drawing is at home. I love the way great illustration can heighten reality, making it more sentimental, or dreamy, strange and spooky, disquieting, and dissociated and abstract. Wyeth and Hopper and George Bellows showed us the way.

When you work in a physical medium, on a flat surface, you strip a dimension or two out of reality. The best service you can render is to use that space to add new dimensions: affective, narrative, and stylistic.