This is my third post about my progress on the largest winter 2018 project that I am in the process of creating.
Last week and yesterday were amazing. I got tons on it done. Especially yesterday. After 12 hours of painting straight, I could see the end of it and was pretty confident that I can have it done in a day, maximum two.
But ha ha, well, I have to laugh cause this happens so often. When I have a super productive day (16 hours of work yesterday which felt like a breeze, I was not even tired), than as a general rule the following day, for some reason, is crap. Not necessarily altogether a day that I'd label as "shitty", but since the bar is very high from the previous superman day, it just feels like it.
Hm, so after spending few hours on details today, I looked at it and had to admit to myself:
yup, i over-complicated it...
The central part I mean. And this is a lesson that I learned the hard way and that I recommend every artist to learn ASAP because you will save yourself lots of pain and disappointment. Here it is:
When you look at the result of your work and part of you, deep down, knows that you don't like it, and your mind is trying to convince you that it's good enough, that it's actually pretty awesome, don't listen to it. Have the balls to scratch it, cover it up, and start again, even if it means deleting hours of your minute work. Your mind will tell you: Oh, but what a majestic waste of time to erase all that work! Better just embellish it and "repair" it. Nah, don't listen to it. You have not wasted any of your time, you have learned a lesson and trained your hand. Next time you'll do this one mistake less (out of the million bad moves that you'll still do in the future). So it's not a mistake. And yup go and cover it up and start from cleaner point.
Thats' exactly what I did today, as you can see...
This is where I finished on my last blog update
Mountains came to life...
Earth in the tree came to be...
...and exactly at this point I had to be honest with myself- the central part is too much...
centre part...
...and so I took brush and covered up work of many hours in the space of few minutes...
This is how it looks now, and tomorrow is a new day. It's 10:30 pm here in Vancouver and I'll be leaving my studio soon.
I am not disappointed. I will go and pick up my sword, my samurai's katana (my brush) tomorrow morning and I will kill the beast of resistance in me and paint something way better.
So be it,
Till next time Steemit fam,
P.S.: Beauty resides in simplicity!
P.P.S.: I forgot to tell you the name! It will be named HERITAGE