So, I got this far and really liked it.
But it turns out that I just can’t leave well alone and I felt compelled to add another grey in the sky and the last colour, the green.
It’s not that I hate it exactly, it just actually worked without the green in the foreground.
‘Tis done now as this is a reduction print – we live and learn.
4 thoughts on “on learning when to leave things alone”
Sally October 6, 2013 at 8:02 pm
Definitely, the first image is my favorite. Lessons are for a reason. But it’s not always easy to see what we need to see. Creativity is an experimentation and a process.
Nancy Power October 7, 2013 at 12:21 am
Isn’t it though!! Thanks for your input – I agree about lessons! I will try to leave well alone in future. I did say ‘try’….
Nancy Farmer September 24, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Oh that’s a hard one! I have lately done a couple of paintings that I have left at what would be ‘half way through’ in my process because for years I have wondered if I should. But you can only have one or the other… I think they both work, but yes, there is something lovely and open in the first one.
Nancy Power September 24, 2013 at 2:56 pm
Thanks for your nice comment. Yes, sometimes it is so hard to know when to stop. If this had been a multiblock print I could have done a range of colourways and then decided which I liked best….although I would end up doing hundreds of colourways and still not being able to decide!! So, we live and learn (hopefully).
Oh, and thank you for following me too!!