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My head has been spinning around and around...

7/18/2010

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For the past seven months all I have painted are circles and circles and more circles and variations on circles.
I decided to forge ahead and paint not-circles.
Ouch!
That was not an easy thing to do.
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It was not easy not painting circles.
I wanted to paint circles all over the top of this and had two pals tell me no.
I took their advice and now it is kinda growing on me.  
This is about 8"X12" -ish.
I then decided to go bigger and paint a
 floor cloth without circles.
Ouch.
Not painting circles was still painful.
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This measures about 4' X 3' and is very subtle from a distance and quite detailed up close.
I got some great ideas from doing this that I will apply on the next floor cloth that I paint.
Then.
There was a painting that I had painted over and over and over and was still not happy about it, and it was hanging on the wall mocking me each and every minute I was in the painting studio.
It would say, "Hey, I look like crap, and it is all YOUR fault.   Bwahahaaaaa!"
Dang painting.
So today I decided to paint over it, yet again and the paint I picked did not obliterate the the last layers and then I took a sponge to wipe it all off again and something happened.
I liked that something and experimented with it and, danged if it did not all come together and make a cool painting.
Finally.
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I really like this one.
It has cool details where I rubbed away some of the paint.
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Whew!
Hard to know when a painting is done and I am certain that this one is done done and done!
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