When is a painting done? It's done when YOU think it's done. No one else, since it's not commercial and you are the end judge. I like the concept of this new posting.
It's funny - I know so many painters who keep going long after it was "finished." Maybe you've had this experience of coming back to an image and realizing you want to change it? I find that occasionally.
Thanks for sharing your thought process of how you work through an image. I often have multiple versions of an image I am working on, it gets hard to choose which is the final version.
Trying to recall where I first read this, maybe from Sally Mann? Something to the effect that you know when it is finished when all want to do is work on that other newer piece or project.
When is a painting done? It's done when YOU think it's done. No one else, since it's not commercial and you are the end judge. I like the concept of this new posting.
It's funny - I know so many painters who keep going long after it was "finished." Maybe you've had this experience of coming back to an image and realizing you want to change it? I find that occasionally.
Thanks for sharing your thought process of how you work through an image. I often have multiple versions of an image I am working on, it gets hard to choose which is the final version.
It is hard - but I'm just glad it's not a painting where every choice is a commitment!
It’s a treat to float along the journey of your thought process, Ann!
Thanks Debe - it was also interesting to write on my end - sort of "formalized" what I was thinking for myself as well.
Trying to recall where I first read this, maybe from Sally Mann? Something to the effect that you know when it is finished when all want to do is work on that other newer piece or project.
Well - that might be more often than I'd like - I get spoiled by the works that just flow into being.