How black and white, I went to the world of color?

Why Seeing "Old" Goya, I started drawing at age seven? I have been impressed by the solid line and black women, contrast and very modern vision of horror of Goya.

At seven years, attracts and horror when it becomes possible by copying it is a feeling of power. A will to power of creating. It is this vital force in drawing and in painting that I found. A form of survival in the wilderness between vibrant and drawing me. The most authentic expression of my anxieties and my melancholy. The color came later, in Tuscany. Gouache on black, white and gray was my first medium. Then watercolor has crept into this world very identified until the day the pastel has pushed all friendly like a tsunami where color became sovereign! I stared at the faces, the scans I plowed and I like landscapes. I choose live or from photographs in black and white and I made the colors starting with the eyes. Everything goes through the eye and the rest follows. They become alive or ... almost

Goya is my master but Degas and Redon are now for pastel and Egon Schiele to the clean lines and bold stroke and touch of color also had the great Pascin.

The Fauves have created, lived, worked together. It is the feeling of loneliness that I regret today, even the exaggerated individualism of the artist. To create is to be renewed but only with and through the other ..