24×18″
Acrylic on board
©2014 Lucinda Howe
This painting was completed several years ago after a trip to New Mexico. It was framed and displayed for sale. This weekend I was taking inventory and evaluating old paintings. Several were bad enough that I just gessoed over them. This one had possibilities, so I took it out of the frame and repainted parts of it using some techniques from Carolina Jasper‘s workshop. I added more value contrast in the foreground and decreased value and color contrast in the distant mountains to add depth. I also changed an overbearing orange sky to blue. Now I like it much better.
Do you ever do take a painting out of the frame and rework it? How do you know when it is finished?
Rich
18 Feb 2014A painting is finished when somebody buys it.
Barbara Howe
21 Feb 2014I’ve been wondering if a book is ever finished. Rich’s comment applies to many creative works.