Lucy and Zoomie photobomb the picture I’m trying to take of a 30 x 40 inch acrylic canvas I found in storage that I’m going to over-paint with landscape. It’s exactly the same size as the painting that has got me stuck — so I could use it to rehearse a second version.
It’s the wrong size to serve as a proper format for an idea that I have in the hopper. But I’m inclined to use it to rehearse the new idea anyway (rather than deepen my obsession with the troublesome existing painting). Changing formats is like changing media — it can shake things up in interesting ways.
It will be interesting sometime later on to recall that this picture was underneath whatever landscape I decide to paint here.
The options are this:
https://alethakuschan.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/crepe-myrtles-are-the-best/
or a more probably an elaborated version, in a different format, of this:
https://alethakuschan.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/little-garden/
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Love the little garden, so much mystery in it 👍
Thank you, Ben — that’s the element I’m going searching after — I’m going to look for whatever evokes the not-knowing … if that makes sense …. and your comment reminds me that, yes, that’s what I should do