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Waiting for Inspiration

Link: http://www.leithomalley.com/artpage_inspiration.htm

I have produced hundreds of scribbles, sketches, drawings, cartoons and paintings over the years, yet when someone asks me how I come up with ideas for work I tell them I'm really not sure.

A truly original idea for a piece of art is always a gift from somewhere else, and you just hope and pray it might happen again. I have thought about this subject a lot lately, about where inspiration or stream of consciousness comes from. The result is a large oil painting titled "Waiting for Inspiration".

This large oil portrays a painter sitting on the floor of his studio adjacent to a large blank canvas propped up against the wall. A dirt road runs through the middle of the room, past the canvas and off into the distance The painter I guess is me, waiting to thumb that lift, to take that ride, to catch that inspiration before it passes through.

I
have produced hundreds of scribbles, sketches, drawings, cartoons
and paintings over the years, yet when someone asks me how I
come up with ideas for work I tell them I'm really not sure.
A truly original idea for a piece of art is always a gift from
somewhere else, and you just hope and pray it might happen again.
I have thought about this subject a lot lately, about where
inspiration or stream of consciousness comes from. The result
is a large oil painting titled "Waiting for Inspiration".

This
large oil portrays a painter sitting on the floor of his studio
adjacent to a large blank canvas propped up against the wall.
A dirt road runs through the middle of the room, past the canvas
and off into the distance The painter I guess is me, waiting
to thumb that lift, to take that ride, to catch that inspiration
before it passes through.

ndreds of scribbles, sketches, drawings, cartoons
and paintings over the years, yet when someone asks me how I
come up with ideas for work I tell them I'm really not sure.
A truly original idea for a piece of art is always a gift from
somewhere else, and you just hope and pray it might happen again.
I have thought about this subject a lot lately, about where
inspiration or stream of consciousness comes from. The result
is a large oil painting titled "Waiting for Inspiration".

This
large oil portrays a painter sitting on the floor of his studio
adjacent to a large blank canvas propped up against the wall.
A dirt road runs through the middle of the room, past the canvas
and off into the distance The painter I guess is me, waiting
to thumb that lift, to take that ride, to catch that inspiration
before it passes through.