About a week ago I introduced you to the beginnings of this painting. There have been a few distractions along the way. One of those being my main computer has a hardware problem which saw me burn serious amounts of time trying to track down exactly the reason for its seemingly random power offs. Arrrrg!

This is why I find painting so relaxing, if there is an issue, you can see immediately what it is. Computers are supposed to provide us with certainty, yet when they have issues, software or hardware, there is a good amount of guessing that is involved in the process of elimination. Is it this, no. Is it that, no. Is it this plus that, no. And so on in various combinations, until you are stressed and suffering from sleep deprivation.

At least with a painting, even if you get something wrong, you have finished product at the end. Sure you can go back and fix it up, but I have since learnt that the most progress is made in level of ability by starting afresh. This is very common in life drawing. It is an iterative process where you start off with short five minute poses, and then progressively moving on to longer and longer poses. The previous drawings are "discarded", but they inform your later more detailed and finished works because they have served as warm ups. Much in the same way, these smaller paintings of mine are studies which prepare me for what I start to work on more complex and larger compositions again.

So given a bit more time, I'll have some more substantial works to show you. How long that will take, I can't say at the moment. Stick around for the journey and we'll see where this goes.

"Can't Forget" Leo Plaw, 24 x 30cm, oil on canvas
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