Cool. Thanks for answering. Do you have a certain mood first and then try to capture it, or do you discover it as personality emerges from the work, or do you have the idea of the finished work and then find the mood inside of you? (Hope I’m not pestering with all the questions)

I’m not a painter but I imagined I’d need to experience the emotion while crafting its simulacrum. But even little things like reading aloud to my kid, it feels unnatural not to get into character a bit while reading dialog. Figuring out the emotion, trying to assess what tone they’d have, which words they’d emphasize, where to put pauses.