Mississippi Hippie
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I love your painting Ayin. It’s nice to hear from you again. I felt like sharing and getting online because I missed seeing work like yours, so nice to be back.
What are you working on?
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My wife is certain I destroyed my current work in progress… and honestly, it could most certainly be defined as being at the height of the ugly stage. I won’t even show it until I have time to perform some serious reconstructive surgery. I hadn’t worked on it since March or April. Looking at it recently I found a number of issues with it… and simply disliked the way it was headed. So I painted out the figure and will begin reworking it today.
Mississippi Hippie
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My spouse said he was doubting my painting at every step and it came around stlukesguild so keep it up.
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Thank you very much! And it's so good to have you back! I missed you too!
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Well… I’m about to do something that I haven’t done in years: abandon a work in progress. The last time I did this I was about halfway finished with the painting and had taken it to the college class that I was taking for necessary professional development hours needed to renew my teaching license. When I returned home it was pouring and so I left the painting in the car trunk (rain and pastel are not a good mix). The rain continued for days and so I decided to leave it in the car trunk until the following weekend when I could take it into my studio. At some point my brother picked up some groceries and stacked them on top of the painting. When I took the painting out there was a series of deep creases and cracks in the acrylic. I tried everything… to no avail: steam, ironing, blow drying, etc… The painting was toast. Not being ready to trash it, I used some large sheets of tracing paper and a lot of measurements and copied the painting exactly onto a new surface. Within two days… very long days… I had reproduced the painting up to the stage where the original had been before it was destroyed.
This time, I simply disliked a number of elements… especially the central figure/portrait. I set about to rework this after sanding down and painting out the figure. After several false starts I found the surface was becoming impossible to work with. So… I’ll be taking it down and rolling it up and hanging a new sheet of paper.
This time, I simply disliked a number of elements… especially the central figure/portrait. I set about to rework this after sanding down and painting out the figure. After several false starts I found the surface was becoming impossible to work with. So… I’ll be taking it down and rolling it up and hanging a new sheet of paper.
