Sometimes when I start, I know exactly what I am creating, and sometimes I just start. I have to start, or nothing happens. But most of the time, if I start the image emerges. I don't know where it comes from, but it happens. A pattern, a feeling, a response to my emotions, to the rhythm of the background music, the happenstance of the next tube of paint I pick up, the next tool that I pick up.
If you ask me what I am painting, I often don't have an answer. If I waited until I had a vision of the finished work to start, I might never start. How do I start, I unwrap a canvas, put it on the easel, and paint on a primer or base layer, and then flow from there. Some paintings take days or weeks to develop, others happen from start to finish in minutes.
The critical thing for me is starting. For me creativity happens when I am working, not when I am trying to decide what to work on. Don't wait for creative inspiration, start and it will find you.
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