Creative Process
I draw a lot of my inspiration from the assorted “pretty girl
jobs”—such as model, burlesque performer, and go-go
dancer—that I’ve done in the past. With any looks-based career,
age is your enemy. Dorian Deconstructed #1 [left] is a meditation
on time, art, and artifice. It’s gigantic, and I did it stream-of-
consciousness style from my head. I would doodle one part
in mechanical pencil, ink it, then pencil in another part. Once
I’d inked the entire piece, I erased the pencil lines and colored
it with kolinsky brushes and Holbein gouache. I diluted the
gouache so it was more like a watercolor, and painted large, ...