I decided I'd do one more painting today. It was a mojo check, plus I am woefully behind in my 300 paintings in a year quest. Time to get cracking! I suffered through the red rose painting, done months ago. So why I would choose to do another rose is beyond me. Actually, it's not, I saw some really nice roses on the Daily Paintworks website, and thought I could do it. Just paint what you see, geez how hard can that be? I tweaked and tweaked and tweaked on this one, kept adjusting the pink tints here and there. With the car-guy's voice ringing in my ear, "Good artists know when they're done" and didn't want to prematurely abandon the thing. It certainly never got to that place where I said, "Voila, it's a lovely rose!" It did get to the place where I said, "Hmmm, this looks better than it did 10 minutes ago....let's go for another 10 minutes and reassess." I was going for romance, that's what I'll explain to people.
After I finished this, I went back to the bike painting, added the red that was needed on the leaves, added a few more bike spokes, put some light blue on the fenders, added a bit of green to the little bush.....it still looks like a disaster.
Speaking of the Daily Paintworks website, I am finally taking advantage of their free first month. I listed the Red Truck Bed last weekend, and this morning I listed 17 other paintings that I thought turned out OK (ie not embarrassing). I listed them with free shipping, but increased the price from the Farmer's Market stand, as it took quite a bit of time to get them photographed and cropped and then listed (and if they sell, the packaging and postage will factor in too). Wish me luck! Bonne Chance! (I've been reading Anna Karenina, and they use that French phrase a lot, so I now keep finding places to use it.)
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