You whine about it majorly, and then go on with your life.
To be honest, I just got kind of bored with this one. The initial intention was to try to do the whole painting with the paint wet. It's in oil, so that really shouldn't be too difficult. I had one weekend that was mostly free, and I thought I could do it then... but, of course, things got busy, and it didn't happen, and I didn't get another chance to touch it until the paint had long since dried.
I've fiddled with it a little bit since then, and finally was determined to finish it while Paul and I were watching a movie this Sunday (True Lies... if you haven't seen it, and feel like nearly dying of laughter, please look it up. I'm still chuckling). As you can tell, I just got kind of frustrated, and it finished it with all the slapdashery I could. The more I look at it, the more embarrassed by it I am. But, I figure, it doesn't really matter.
One podcast I used to listen to is quite adamant about stating that if you want to grow as a respectable artist, you should "curate what you share." In other words, you should only share those things that you are proud of and are great and fabulous and wonderful. I'm not sharing what that podcast was, because, the more I listened to it, the more I disagreed with everything the guy said. That's a whole 'nuther rant. But this one struck me as especially dumb, because no one is perfect, and no one should be expected to be. I love looking at other artists and seeing little flaws... especially the ones I look up to. I don't want to feel a pressure to only make wonderful pieces of art, otherwise I have to throw them away, never to be seen again.
Take this awful painting for example. It really sucks. But I've learned a ton from it. And with that information, I'll try another one. And I'll learn from that. And I'll try another one. And another one. and eventually, one of them won't suck. I was sitting there stressing about how to save this painting for quite awhile before I decided that I'm actually allowed
To be honest, I just got kind of bored with this one. The initial intention was to try to do the whole painting with the paint wet. It's in oil, so that really shouldn't be too difficult. I had one weekend that was mostly free, and I thought I could do it then... but, of course, things got busy, and it didn't happen, and I didn't get another chance to touch it until the paint had long since dried.
I've fiddled with it a little bit since then, and finally was determined to finish it while Paul and I were watching a movie this Sunday (True Lies... if you haven't seen it, and feel like nearly dying of laughter, please look it up. I'm still chuckling). As you can tell, I just got kind of frustrated, and it finished it with all the slapdashery I could. The more I look at it, the more embarrassed by it I am. But, I figure, it doesn't really matter.
One podcast I used to listen to is quite adamant about stating that if you want to grow as a respectable artist, you should "curate what you share." In other words, you should only share those things that you are proud of and are great and fabulous and wonderful. I'm not sharing what that podcast was, because, the more I listened to it, the more I disagreed with everything the guy said. That's a whole 'nuther rant. But this one struck me as especially dumb, because no one is perfect, and no one should be expected to be. I love looking at other artists and seeing little flaws... especially the ones I look up to. I don't want to feel a pressure to only make wonderful pieces of art, otherwise I have to throw them away, never to be seen again.
Take this awful painting for example. It really sucks. But I've learned a ton from it. And with that information, I'll try another one. And I'll learn from that. And I'll try another one. And another one. and eventually, one of them won't suck. I was sitting there stressing about how to save this painting for quite awhile before I decided that I'm actually allowed