Tag: large oil painting

  • Work. Don’t Think. Relax.

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    The latest big painting I’ve been working on is in its death throes/finishing stages. It’s reached the point where I thought it might be done and so hung it on the wall to ‘mature’ (this is something that paintings are mysteriously able to do by themselves while the artist isn’t working on them).

  • Knowing when to stop

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    The big painting is just about finished – I think … I’m not very good at knowing when to stop. Sometimes you continue and make huge improvements; other times, you carry on and ruin what was a reasonable picture. Andi is threatening to kidnap the painting if I don’t stop soon, which adds to the…