No, but I haven't left the computer for several days now.
This is the beginning of a night painting.
July 02, 2012
The Night.
I've been working on my website for 1000 days so far.
No, but I haven't left the computer for several days now.
The nights have been gorgeous here and last night I swore I would paint the night this evening. I took the dog for a walk and it was late and since I've been at the computer all day I was going to bail because I didn't feel like dragging my supplies outside at 9:30 pm and setting up shop. I'm still in my running clothes from this morning. Yes, I worked at the computer all day wearing my sweaty running clothes. So in order not to bail on my commitment to paint the night, I stood outside and attempted to memorize the evening. Then I opened the garage door for reference and pushed some paint around for maybe 10 minutes. (Maybe longer, but my point is that I picked up the paintbrush. A better point of course might have been that I picked up the paintbrush and finished a painting in one session, but that was not in the cards tonight.)
This is the beginning of a night painting.
No, but I haven't left the computer for several days now.
This is the beginning of a night painting.
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Yep. It's amazing what can happen when you just pick up a paintbrush, even if you aren't planning a full day, full session.
It's been two days since I tried and failed to pick up a paint brush. But your effort was well rewarded. So, I am encouraged to not despair that tomorrow will be the day to start the think I've been prepping to start.
Nice start;)
The thing, not the think, lately I am making so many typos.
I should have left it alone. I worked on it today and lost it. I'll try and find it again tonight.
My new rule is going to be expediency. I'm tired of overworking the paintings.
I think it's worth a try, the expediency thing. I find that if I am forced to do a painting in one session (mostly when I am outside) and set it aside for a few days, where I see it in passing, when I get back to it I can usually see if it is salvageable and what I might have to do to salvage it. If it's a lot I toss it and if it is just a little punching up I do it and let it go. Often some of the best things come out of that.
It is harder to do that when I'm working in the studio for instance.
I guess it's not really a new rule, but an old rule I'm going to trot out again.
I've done alla prima before and I Iike working that way a lot. It's just that after X amount of years of caking on the paint for days and weeks at a times, I feel guilty that I completed something in one session.
I also sometimes worry I would run out of materials at the rate I work, but maybe it's time for a shift. I'm ready to embrace half-ass again. ; )
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