"My first step is to get the colors down. I am somewhat untraditional in my painting; I follow no rules but my own. I paint with water-soluble oils. I do not mix my colors ahead of time. I just squeeze out the colors I want onto my palette and dip my brush into them as I go along and then if I have to mix I usually do it on the canvas. I am partial to the blues, purples, reds, yellows, sunset colors, and colors of the universe.
"I have no direction right now, I put on my classical radio station and I dip my brush into water, blot it and start painting with light yellow mixed with a touch of white on a diagonal in the center, then adding just the light yellow on the outsides. I mix the yellow with red to get orange so that it gets darker as I go along.
"I then add some ultramarine blue along with alizarin crimson to fill in the rest of the canvas. I use my arm and paint with wide strokes enough to get the canvas covered. I add some wavy lines in Prussian blue to see in what direction I want to take this... Not much form or presence right now just color."
