David Ball

David lives in San Francisco with his little cat Cho-Cho who sometimes helps with his work, sometimes chews on it, but usually does a little of both.

Working from ready-made texture, surreal, amorphous collage application and unconciously applied abstract brush work, David allows his images' surfaces to suggest the direction of their growth, beginning only when the base evokes something he responds to on a basic, intuitive level.

The entire process is both additive and subtractive, a series of layered, mixed-media stages whose intent is to arrive at a distilled ecsense, an image filtered into existence via a subconscious path of least resistance.

When creating illustrations，David begins with a more traditional approach, planning out each drawing with a series of rough sketches which function as a crude skeleton onto which he builds his collage.