I read somewhere to spend time in your studio daily, even if you just move things around (maybe I am repeating myself, apologies) and that is exactly what I do, I move things around, look at forgotten stuff I still have, dig up old plans, hang them on the walls, just stand and look at these plans and fill them in in my thoughts, imagine hanging them on my walls when they are finished. It is a matter of visualizing what you want to accomplish. You have to SEE it before you execute it and you have to WANT it badly enough to go through the trouble of sorting all these little stones to the perfect image.
The fact of working ofter and longer also gives a better continuity to your work, more fluidity and a better range of colors. I was amazed how easy it was for me to keep this cat-fish image going and to pull it off from a reasonably difficult and photoshopped photograph.
I work from photos that I find on the internet. They haunt me for a while, until I "get them out of my system" by transforming them into mosaics. I think it is a pity that my work is often very realistic, but in a way it is something I have to grow out of. For now, I still have loads of images I need to act upon.
Some humor is nice, so you can keep coming back to the work of art with a smile and with wonder. You would think that I side with the cat, but I don't. The actual power is with the fish. He is in his element and the cat is being transformed out of proportion into something which is no longer cat. Part fishbowl, part human with its smile. Not sure how much of a threat that is to a fish.
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