Comments on: Continuing the large watercolour http://artiseternal.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/continuing-the-large-watercolour/ philosphical commentary on art - all images posted are copyrighted by the artist or with permission, all rights reserved Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:14:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: forestrat http://artiseternal.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/continuing-the-large-watercolour/#comment-425 forestrat Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:49:41 +0000 http://artiseternal.wordpress.com/?p=303#comment-425 Very cool description of your process - look forward to seeing it completed. Painting is so final - the artist works and works on it, but there comes a point where there is just nothing more that can be done. You either have to say it is what it is and go with it or you have to trash it and start over. Of course one can re-paint a certain scene, but perhaps one can never recapture the original inspiration. In my own little photo world I sometimes look at shots that I have edited months ago and I decide I don't like the cropping or maybe I decide it needs a little more contrast. I go back to the original file and I work it up again. It is always a bust. Once the image and the memory of its creation starts to get stale, I can't seem to go back. I have to just let it ride and move on to new images. MDW Very cool description of your process – look forward to seeing it completed.

Painting is so final – the artist works and works on it, but there comes a point where there is just nothing more that can be done. You either have to say it is what it is and go with it or you have to trash it and start over. Of course one can re-paint a certain scene, but perhaps one can never recapture the original inspiration.

In my own little photo world I sometimes look at shots that I have edited months ago and I decide I don’t like the cropping or maybe I decide it needs a little more contrast. I go back to the original file and I work it up again.

It is always a bust. Once the image and the memory of its creation starts to get stale, I can’t seem to go back. I have to just let it ride and move on to new images.

MDW

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