“Do you ever paint something you don’t like?”
The answer is ‘yes’, about fifty percent of the time.
Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but you do look back on pieces and question what drove you to even consider painting it in the first place.
The freedom to make mistakes I guess is a hard won privilege we allow ourselves.
The girl playing the mandolin at the top of this post is a case in point. I see some redeeming features but not many, but the couple I see make the piece worth the effort.
It’s those hard earned lessons that slide with ease into the more successful paintings and then we have the audacity to wonder how we did it?
The human memory is short and blinkered.
We tend to only remember the sunny warm summer days of our childhood and the paintings of yesterday which fell together as if by magic.
Looking over less successful paintings helps us appreciate nothing happens by chance. It’s good to remember this when pushing forward into the future.
These paintings here, I’m happy to say are the successful pieces. The ones I love and demand to be shared.
Happy Monday.
Hi, I'm Jimmy.
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