2/06/2007

Lost Painting: Dark Green

I like this one in spite of its flaws.  It was a bit fuzzy and too dark, and had to be "vanity lit" (from just the right angles in a dim room) to look this good.  It was 48 by 48 inches.

If you look at another lost painting from the same period, you'll see I wasn't kidding when I said there wasn't much room for growth.

Avoiding the f-word -- formula -- is always a problem when doing creative work, but it's especially hard when doing process-based painting.  That doesn't mean you can't crank out thousands of variations, but doing so would likely turn you into an instrument of the formula, a gear in the machine, going through the motions.