Wednesday, October 26, 2022

old photos

 I was pretty happy with the first washes I put down ... but I didnt know what to do next. Next night, I plunged in: bad idea. 
It might have been salvageable but I kept putting the facial features in the wrong place--which led to a lot of correcting and anxiety, and really ruined the freshness that was so appealing in the first wash.
So, I felt pretty disappointed, but I'm over it. Going to do another ... where I hope I will not make the same mistakes!

This is my first go at a photo of my maternal grandmother with her father.
I king of like that when I begin these I have no idea what I'm going to do. I just do something, then react to it, do something else ... It's an interesting process, in which I have to treat time differently than I normally do, which is as a precious commodity to be rigorously tracked and parsimoniously spent!

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:02 PM

    I love your paintings . Keep up the great work. You are too hard on yourself. I’ve learned to call mine water color doodling. We can get down on ourselves so easily. It’s just paper & paint. Let it flow let it flow 😊

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