That’s the advice I got from one of the many books I’ve read on creativity. The author was, of course, referring to the idea that you just need to start making art to expand your creative skills. Looking at this piece you might think I took it literally.
I’m willing to bet that every artist has made bad art. The real challenge is to acknowledge that it is indeed bad. Not even good enough to give away. Who would want this? Seriously, does anyone want this?
I blame this cursed canvas (because it couldn’t be ME). If you could pick this painting up you would feel how heavy it is. Like a Willem de Kooning painting. He was the artist that would take years to finish paintings because he would keep reworking them. I’ve read that the galleries would just have to take them “unfinished”.
I won’t be reworking this piece. I acknowledge and abandon the cursed canvas. Another skill that artists need to develop is the ability to know when there’s nothing more to be done. Bye, bye. Time to move on.
P.S. Take a look at some of my other work.
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