After a public reading of one of my plays, some years ago, I learned that
unless it’s done really well, an
experimental work of art will seem amateurish rather than unusual, provocative, or avant garde, and the artist ends up feeling an idiot. So my latest painting was never going to work - because the scene in the distance was too small and the wrong shape to look anything but pathetic.
Hence, I decided to paint over it - even after I’d thought up the right title for it – and will shelve the idea for the perfect shaped (and bigger) canvas it deserves.
Now the canvas has a ‘history’ impregnated on its surface so it needs impasto . . . and I have just the right texture and idea to adorn it.
Come back some time to see what emerges. Better still, become a 'follower'.
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