"For the past few months, I’ve have been slowly introducing new elements in the various stages of my painting’s development. I’ve been thinking more about how each painting has it’s various layers and each layer has it’s own characteristics. I try to surprise myself with such things as how I orient myself to the piece – up, down, side to side, etc.  The proportions and overall composition. Kind of a formal pill hard to swallow while at the same time keeping the spontaneity factor alive and giving me the motive of the of the painting or how to move forward. Yeah, dramatic stuff. But when you get right down to it, making a painting can be (should be?) a dramatic pursuit for me and hopefully for the viewer." 

–– Tom Savage