I started a new painting today. It is my sister Allison's dog Elke, a Norweigan Elk Hound who was shot between the eyes and is now blind....but she still appreciates her brother kitty, Dante. I only blocked in an underpainting...Now I am ready to roll on the actual fun painting part. I am excited about this one.
I am almost finished my painting of Seamus in July that I started last March, and while it is "okay" I just got stuck with him-so he is finished for now, until inspiration returns to do something different. Here he is. Now that I see him in progress, I realize his head is too round...I'll fix that later:
The process of painting Seamus showed me that I need to stay atuned to inspiration. Sometimes, after starting a painting, I get bored with the process and I'll just lay it aside and start on another painting. I understand this is not uncommon for oil painters, particularly because of the drying time needed between glazing. I think I have about 6 or 7 paintings underway in various stages of completion....and that makes it easy to turn the "uninspired" ones into "currently drying" ones - those I set aside hoping that in the future, my excitement returns on that particular painting in order to finish it. In the past couple of days, I came across three paintings I lost all interest in, so I have been busy trying to figure out how artists re-purpose oil paintings. They are different than acyrlic where you can just put a layer of gesso over them and voila, you have a brand new blank canvas. So my fickleness with painting could be expensive if I don't pay more attention to selecting subjects more carefully if I just throw them away..not something I want to do. If you happen to be reading this and know the answer...let me know!
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