Harumph.

[ellenmillion]

Not pleased with the ravens piece, though it may be finished. I want to stew on it a little longer and figure out why I hate it. (And if it's fixable) Ironically, most folks who've seen it say it's my best to date. I'm feeling at this point like it's just my most fiddly (which is saying a lot), not my best. I'm not sure. I've been staring at it too long.

My innards are better, at least, and I don't have to work today. Prep for the fair, here I come!

Comments

[metasilk.livejournal.com]

Do you mean "The Morrigan" piece? If so, I had a thought about sets of prints being excerpts from the piece (see comment in the Salon). That could highlight the bits that are your "best to date" (those technically fabulous and work-effort obvious and still beautiful on top of it) without -- maybe -- leaving you dissatisfied.

[kittrel.livejournal.com]

Oftentimes taking a break and looking at it a week later or so helps me a lot.

Sometimes though I just gotta suck it up and say 'I'm not pleased, but it's done'.

It's hard to know the difference between the two. :/

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Figuring out if it's done--is what's wrong reasonably fixable? Sometimes the "fix" really involves rethinking the whole painting/drawing. In that case, I'd call it done.

Hmmm...an example...I have one piece that I've taken a break from tweaking to work on the house, but I've started to think of it as a study for a similar/proper painting.

But hey, it started out just "sketching" (freehand in paint) a guy who was in the park while I was watching a concert there; I was using him mostly for practicing getting proportions right. I later made up a face, long after he (and his unwanted sunglasses) were gone. And the dragon in the painting started as a way to use the red paint that was on the paper I was using as a pallette, so as not to create a mess when it came time to put things away. (Parks and work clothes aren't real good for providing places to put wet paint!) So, for a freehand sketch, I'm pleased. It's pretty close to as good as it can be without starting over.

Anyway, I hope you see what you're not pleased about in your ravens piece, so you can either fix it or feel comfortable that it's as good as it can be.