This is an unusual painting in that it was very spontaneous and largely unplanned.Ordinarily, I have a pretty good idea of what is going to happen during the course of a project. This one, however, took on a life of it's own and more and more details that needed to be worked in kept occurring to me as I went, including changing Jim's pose three times, until I hit the exact right one. I wasn't consciously aware of all the elements that really are in it until I was done. I see the bloody red sun of phantastic L.A., the side of the dawn, the night dividing the day, the scream of the butterfly, the West, the beauty of Jim as he wanders in Eternity. I couldn't possibly have thought of this all ahead of time, and several times while I was working I thought the composition would suffer because I kept thinking of more things to add to it, but somehow, it held together, and so here it is. It is 12" x 16", acrylic on canvas. (This painting has been sold.) Read Buyer's Comments