deliberate intent

You can tell when you are creating from a place of deliberate intent. A voice comes into your head and starts to dictate the evolution of the outcome you are predicting. Make a curved line, now make a second curved line that connects both lines at each end. Now make a dot in the middle. There, your eye is completed.

When you create from a place of no intent time disappears with seemingly no evolution of creativity. Meaning there is no going through dictated steps to creating you just happen to find the image that already exists.

City night painting by Don Deleva
City Night: Acrylic paint on Masonite 2017