'Of No Idea' (working title)...beyond 4a.m.

Variations on 'Of No idea'. A/D Sketches.

Once again I'm out of the studio and once again the A/D sketches are showing their value. 'Of No Idea' started life sometime ago as an ink study in a small sketchbook. Next it acquired a life as the third of the the above A/D Sketches. So far, so good. I thought I was ready to paint, but there was a doubt...the space just wasn't quite right. However I knew I was close and that other refinements could, and should, happen on the canvas. 
Drawing out, starts, I have a doubt, Blocking in starts, The doubt grows. I go back at my A/D Sketch and start to play again.  I need to open up the space, and here I have two ways to  experiment, on canvas and digitally. perfect! I back and forth between the two. The A/D influences the oil, The oil influences the A/D, which in turn influences the oil again until I find the space I'm looking for, the first of the images above.