Oil on 12 oz cotton canvas, 48 x 36″, October 20-21 2017
Lost heart / interest in this… signed and dated
Spruce plantation selfie (was work in progress)
landscape, still-life, and abstract painting
landscape, still-life, and abstract painting
Oil on 12 oz cotton canvas, 48 x 36″, October 20-21 2017
Lost heart / interest in this… signed and dated
peter robinson fine art 
This looks rather exciting Peter
In my experience it is the earliest marks one makes that are the liveliest… it seems that as one continues, though, one ‘kills’ this liveliness and ends up with something ‘dead’… not always, but more often than not…. I think some might speak of it as the so-called ‘artist’s first fire’… the problem is this ‘first fire’ can so easily be dampened! 🙂 What do I call you, btw, ‘ou’?
If I don’t continue after those few marks though, I end up with a pile of unfinished looking paintings! But it is a dilemma. I also seem to do better work on the back of something else or a sketchbook or rubbish paper! Call me OA. I like the blank paper on the left, it makes the trees soar.
Yes, the question of what constitutes the finished article is an ongoing dilemma… one thing I do know or feel and that is I’ve had enough with this piece! Sometimes you just don’t feel like pursuing things any further…
This one seems ‘finished’ to me!