In the studio

The materials I've used since '78, since 'Landscape No. 1', have been the black ink, and the shellac. I've used gouache, I've used earth, I've used emulsion.

But for the last fifteen years I've been using titanium white acrylic, black ink, and I like to work with the raw canvas. I like them to be in the canvas. If you press the image in, if you could do it once, just black on raw canvas, it would be wonderful.

I've made a charcoal mark on a canvas and I hated it. It's kind of furry and smudgy. I can't do that. I need the bite and intensity of the black, which you get with the shellac.