Driving along a county road in western Oklahoma, chance glance to my right offered a painting possibility. A late afternoon blue sky thunder storm in the distance approaching a farm house and silo across a field. The narrow road and traffic prevented a photo stop.
The rain, was pink.
The trouble began with a texture experiment gone wrong (see
my video Talking Texture). Attempts to salvage the new canvas created small
holes and worse, not all the texture could be removed.
Repairing the original sin required much thicker than normal
texture spread across entire canvas. Blending acrylic paint on the rough surface to
create a believable thunder storm was unlikely.
Not much of an excuse, but the best I can come up with at
the moment.
After committing 12 gigabits of memory, my own and the
computer’s, and four months effort to the project a question arose.
Why continue investing paint and time like I could afford
both hoping for a pretty good outcome when I could be making new, more creative
mistakes on another painting that doesn’t require texture AND a thunderstorm?
I came to realize this painting, however memorable the event,
is a THIEF stealing my time and my Art Dollars!
Don’t let this happen to you, my friends! Act now!
Even a perfect painting is never done – Besides, It will
look better in the morning
