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    Bears

    Bears

    A couple of years ago I was cleaning up at the end of a painting class and I was regretting that I was about to scrape a good bit of paint into the garbage. Transporting it home without making a mess was nearly impossible, and keeping it for the next class was also not an option. That day however, I did something different, I took my palette knife and scraped it onto a small blank canvas. I thought I would eventually use it as a background for a future work. After the next cl
    Progress

    Progress

    While my other WIPs are giving me grief, I was able to put one in the done column, at least for now, while it dries. Then I can see it without all the glare on the wet spots and dull dry spots. Tom made some suggestions for improvement, and he was right on all counts. I need to get the lights set up for photographing this stuff again. He looks much better in person. 24"x24" Oil and acrylic on canvas.
    WIPs

    WIPs

    Is a painting ever really finished, or is it always a work-in-progress. I try to get to the finish line, but then I look at a painting sitting on the drying rack and think about potential changes that I could make to improve on it. Sometimes I act on it, but I have started a new practice of starting another version of the same painting, perhaps a different angle, or size, changing what I would have changed in the predecessor, rather than actually changing it. I like the way s

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