Friday Finishing

100 Day Project Day 69

I spent a lot of time this morning avoiding my art room, and avoiding looking at my nearly finished painting. I spent a lot of time doing other things, but thinking about my painting a lot, and overthinking how I was going to finish it.

In my head I created an image of this painting with a lot of background space that needed to be filled with mark-making, and I was resistant to doing that, so I was trying to figure out how best to approach finishing the painting.

When I eventually walked into the room to start, I laughed out loud, because the painting in my head was, of course, very different from the one on the easel.

I am writing this here because I want to record the myriad of ways our internal critic can try to block us from progressing.

I spent a little time squinting at my painting, and eventually decided that it really didn’t need a lot more doing, so I tweaked a few highlights, and deepened a few shadows, and a played a little bit until I felt like I was in danger of spoiling it, and then I called it.

acrylic on canvas 16×20″

Happy with that.

Til the morn,

Suzanne