Reverse Cowgirl pal COOP has written a wonderful paint-blogging rumination on what it's like to try and kill your muse. In this series, COOP struggles with one of his most iconic works, a smoking devil, and reveals the process of what it's like to wrestle with your demons when your demons are real.
"For this most recent painting, I decided to pull together all the elements that I have been working on, and put them to the task of assaulting the thing I have become most known for, the Smoking Devil.
As I said before, he had become something bigger than me, and had developed a life of his own. I wanted to attack the Smoking Devil, break him apart, smash him into atoms, and once again assert my will over the monster I had created."
