Starting Over

Today I am starting a painting over for the third time. I've been fighting this hoping that I could salvage this stupid bluebonnet painting but I simply do not know what to do and the advice I got sort of nailed it for me because there is nothing you can do with a poorly conceived painting.

Today, however, after accepting what I knew in my heart, I am sort of getting a new energy. I have a challenge. Can a produce a bluebonnet painting that is actually a good piece of art and not a typical amateurish picturesque effort? Now I like that challenge. We shall see.

What would a professional do? First stat with a good plan, research, sketch, work-out the tones, temperature, composition, finalize the plan, and execute. I didn't do that on the previous attempts. I tried to work from memory and that usually never works for me. Anything I can see, I can successfully draw. To be honest, I didn't want to put the work into it. That thinking is now no longer allowed in my brain.

In fact, I'm wasting time trying to fix a bunch of old unfinished ill-conceived paintings in my studio. It's time to get the gesso out. Now I am on the right track!!!

Wow, that is almost theropeutic.