I always start a piece by carefully researching what I want to create. For most of my career I would go to the library and check out books on a the subject and I would also stand in bookstores leafing through magazines for picture of the same subject and buy the ones that were helpful. I, of course, would always end up cutting up the entire magazine to use for the color and texture. If I did not have enough blue for the sky or for the water I would hunt through more magazines. As you can imagine this took hours and hours and that is before I start to clue.
Now in the last few years with the internet images and ideas are easier to find then searching through the library and bookstores.
Once I find a picture I like, I the sketch quite a detailed sketch onto canvas. I have files and files of images and colors that I have torn out of magazines over the years so that's where I go next. I lay out what I find all around me and start the process piece by piece. Every line, every dot is paper, none of it is paint. I do not even own a tube of paint.
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