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Hello, Friends!

Writing of my past was getting depressing to say the least, and last night I was reading a wonderful instructional book called DONG KINGMAN'S WATERCOLORS (from 1980 and signed by him!). I had a wizard's wheeze: Asking myself the same questions in his interview in the book! This will give me more material to work with. 

Here are the initial three.

Art Questions (after Dong Kingman)

Are there things you dislike in your work?

Every time I find something I don't like, I work on it, so I'd say I am quite happy with my work at present. I have a tendency to be sloppy and imprecise, but I like that. However, I'd like to be able to make it neat as a pin just once, so I could say I am able to.

I must work on not losing the drawing under the paint.

In animation, my timing and spacing can be improved.

What aspects do you like best?

I capture emotion and energy well, and can achieve a feeling of deep space. I choose colors well, which I had to work on very deliberately for a long time. I like my use of black spaces and negative spaces. I am able to achieve ripe colors one can eat. And it's always exploratory, even when it doesn't work, as an acquaintance said to me.

How would you like to see your work develop? New techniques? Subjects? Ideas?

I am most enthused about painting. I might try oils again.

I want to capture the 1950s-1980s, periods now becoming mysteries. The Village club scene I grew up in. I am planning a continuation of my series of jazz artists.

I've been doing a series of drawings on depression that I want to put together into some sort of a package, most likely in book form.