Lesson Learned.

You may feel that you have seen this before.

The painting was looking a little 'piecey'. It wasn't coalescing (can't believe I spelled that right) until I took a large flat brush and applied a light coat of an off-white color to it. It should be self-evident, but until I did that, I didn't realize that bigger canvases need bigger brushes.

As my son would say, face-palm moment.

new work on top of old one

I have agreed to participate in Works on Canvas's Size Matters Show. So I took a large failed painting from a class and re-painted it. Already this photograph is out of date because, in looking at the photo, I realized that the lines are too hard, took a paint brush and painted over them. I really should make myself stop around five. I get too tired to be sensible.

I waited forever to work on this painting because I was afraid that I wasn't going to be able to do anything worthwhile. If I keep that attitude, I'll never do anything so I decided to plunge right in. At the very least, I can tell myself that someday, if I keep practicing, I'll get better. Certainly won't get anywhere dithering. I know that I can do something more subtle as there is an example earlier in this blog. Someday I'll be able to do it purposely, not by happy accident.

Pacific NW Abstract Show

Tomorrow, I drive to Anacortes to attend a drawing session afterwhich, I drive to Stanwood to deliver this painting to the Gallery by the Bay's Pacific NW Abstract Show. I will be showing with many other local artists. I feel lucky to be able to participate.

Now that the holidays are over, I am looking forward to taking up my regular schedule of drawing and am ready to move on to painting. I have also signed up for a Gage portrait painting class. We'll see if I'm able to absorb anything useful there.