Initially, I felt forlorn about this painting. It did not excite me like other images I have made this year, and a number of things went wrong paint-wise. Yet after sitting with her for a while—by which I mean ignoring her—I find I don’t dislike her quite so much. Mistakes aside, she’s not so bad after all. In a fallow time, creatively, she is at least something. Though if she is the universe, she is also everything.
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| Universe, watercolours and gouache on gesso prepared paper (2019) |
of course, we can't see the mistakes you mention, but she looks good from here! (we are always our own biggest critics...but i know what you mean. sometimes we do make mistakes with our draughting or our media doesn't cooperate as we thought. artist issues...)
ReplyDeletesometimes a piece i am not perfectly satisfied with gets re-worked later, or re-done entirely, and is transformed. sometimes it spawns a whole series of related images, as if it were in a conversation with me. for me, at any rate, art is an enduring mystery...
Thank you. Of course, the usual artist issues. :D
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