Sculptor or Painter?

 Spring is just a moment away.  The green shoots of Tulips have poked up thru the earth while snow still lurks in the shadows of north facing exposures.

Funny that I just wrote a new song that could be described as a Fall piece.  "Bear's Lullaby" is what it is currently being called. 

I was realizing something about people who create.  There maybe two types of artists, Additive and subtractive is one way of labelling them.  Painters and Sculptors is another way of thinking about them. 

Painters take a canvas and add their medium to the surface, they lay the paint on the canvas and end up with more than when they began.

A Sculptor finds his medium and then cuts away at it until the beauty, the art that was always potential gets revealed.  The sculptor finds art and then creates the path for it to be manifest.

Just because you are neither a painter or sculptor does not mean that you don't fall into one of these categories.  Are categories necessary, or useful?  It seems useful to me to know how it is that I think and approach my art.  I also find that the category can be applied to the way I deal with more than just my art.

I think that I live and create in both spectrum of additive and subtractive attitudes, but if I think that the bulk of my creative process is more in line with the sculptor.

What are you, a painter or a sculptor?