The Limiting Factor

My love for art started in high school. I took classes at an art school focused on classical realism—a great place to learn how to draw and paint from life. Many of the techniques I picked up back then still help me today.

However, I kept running into a problem. Everything I learned came from observing the real world—the kind I could see with my own eyes.

This led me to wonder: what about the images in my mind? What about my imagination?

My mind is full of images. I wanted to show them in my art, to make them look just as real as everything else I created.

Yet, each time I tried to draw or paint from imagination, it didn’t look the same as I saw in my head. The art skills I had been taught didn’t seem to work the same with my mental images. I needed a new way.

At this point, my other passion—math—became important. I wondered if there could be formulas for color, light, and perspective. Maybe math could help me turn my imagination into something real.

Since then, I’ve been exploring something new. Math and art working together.

Now, my art is a mix of logic and intuition, with both sides of my brain working together.

This approach lets me capture both what I see around me and what I imagine. What started out as a limitation? It became the doorway to expanded possibilities.