Thursday, April 26, 2012

Ongoing Struggle

This has begun to resemble a self portrait.
I'm still struggling to get this current project done.  It has hampered my ability to paint freely because of the time constraints.  The timing of this project was unfortunate, because my schedule had changed and I got very busy.  Add to the fact that I haven't done a commission in a very long time and, well...  maybe the expression of angst in this attempt is a reflection of my own in getting this finished.  It was supposed to be a smile. Oh, and not to mention I thought I had it nailed down awhile ago and had to completely retool.  I keep coming back to certain images no matter how I try.

5 comments:

  1. well, it is still looking cool to me....keep going!

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  2. I like this very much and don't think it needs a smile - the features as they are work well. I think it takes a thick skin and a lot of patience to do commissions.

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  3. Thank you Celeste and RH. I decided to leave this one and move on because I ran out of paper on the right side, rendering it unbalanced. So even if I tried to finish it, it would never look quite right. It would probably be more work than I had planned on this project if it could be corrected.

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  4. I appreciate your blogs,Thanks for sharing!

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