The problem with posting paintings every day is that I immediately photograph them, and in the computer image, immediately see everything wrong with the painting and decide I have to "fix" it. When I'm painting outdoors I just put the painting in the box, usually after about an hour, and then I don't look at it, maybe for days. There's a trade-off here--one way is to just leave the painting alone with the freshness of the original statement. This is why artists sometimes say it takes two people to create a painting--one to paint it and the other one to tell the first one when to stop. Two much second-guessing takes all the air out of the process. The other way is to keep going--to push past the comfort/fear zone and to simply not worry if the painting is "ruined" by being overworked. Sometimes this "not caring" process puts me into a zone where I paint better--where after hours of doing, scraping and re-doing, the painting is actually a lot better. This painting, which turned out to be about violets and yellows, I pretty much left alone--I decided to metaphorically put this one "in the box."
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