You know the thing is it just keeps jerking on me here. I think the idea of the colored glaze keeps returning to me with a few of the areas left untouched, as you say. In my head, that will kind of unify it all. Then comes the challenge of making a decision about the area to settle the eye…which I know now is the issue. Maybe you are right, though, if the glazing is worked properly it will be just strong enough to be directive, yet subtle enough to not slam the origional.

Yes, I need to sit with it longer and let the faces continue to pop out at me!

At this point, I don’t have any choice…I know this can’t stand as it is. I just have to have the patience with it to figure out what it is telling me.

Thanks Fiona…this is helping a lot here.

Love,

Kim

This is great! I can see why you’re excited by it!

I have this dilemna all the time! it’s so hard! I agree with your idea of leaving it for a while. I find this tends to help…eventually! Once I’ve got over the heartbreak I tend to use paintings (which were nearly there but not quite enough to stand on their own) as backgrounds for something else. Or i put a coloured glaze over them and then work into an area of it, leaving some of the original thing that I loved intact. It takes time for me to be able to bring myself to do this though. I’m usually pleased that i pushed something further…but not always!

Love,

Kim

I adore your thoughts here. I have not done a thing to this except allow it to dry once I pulled it off the canvas. There is nothing there except the acrylic paint on the watercolor paper.

I also keep thinking ‘ink’, but I am just not sure how to progress with the ink, either. I probably do need to think of glazing to tone down the starkness…subtle, but something to bring a tightening and focus to the piece…something to unite it. At this point, it is more like shattered glass…maybe that isn’t a bad thing, though. Mmmm, so much to think about.

Thanks for your insights…if you have more, I am very interested.

Love,

Kim

You know, you are right it doesn’t matter what happens with this…if it stays around as inspiration then that is what the purpose was in it being created. Keep reminding me.

Love,

Kim

Andrea’s work is pretty amazing, isn’t it? I love how her current body of work is turning out.

Yes, I just need to have more patience, I think!

Thanks Yvette,

Love,

Kim

Thank you so much for your encouragement. This one really hit me with a bang. I can be very economical with my work, so overworking something does not always happen. I actually have a bit of the opposite issue.

I know there is more needed, but…

Okay, I am going to do this…every day look and stare in different lights, from different angles, etc. I will see what I might come up with.

I will let you know!

Thanks Lynette,

Love,

Kim