Title: Painting pain
Category: disappointed
Blog Entry:
One of the most difficult things to admit as a artist is that a painting is not working. Then the most excruciating act it to paint over that error. Today, I had to do just that with the painting in the previous post. The idea is still very strong and worth painting, but I can do it better. So, I painted over many hours of work. The thought process goes something like this: "Hum, that doesn't look as good as it did yesterday.." "I will try to work around it....touch it up.." "Wow, it looks worse..." "All that work I did over the week! I am NOT painting over it!" "I will work more on it. It will recover..." Then comes the inevitable comes crashing upon me: "I have to start over." Anger, frustration, and maybe one more attempt to convince myself that it can be saved and then, sadly, I mix up my paint and within a few minutes, hours of work is gone. I thought yesterday was the act of commitment to the work. TODAY is total commitment to the work. If it is worthy enough to do, it is worthy enough to be well done....(I am still a little mad, though.)
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