![]() I found this painting, and the moment I saw it, even with dark pastel dusted over it, I remembered the situation and wondered, “What was wrong with this?” I put it aside determined to someday clean it up and “finish” it. Somehow, in the first Christmas rush of my portrait career, I had managed to store this first draft in a place where pastel had dusted onto it, and then stored it in a portfolio that was shoved behind a bunch of things for years until I pulled it out and went through it. In working my way through my studio in 2019 I’ve found many other older works that I made but left packed away. KazmarskiĪbove, the original “Three Black and White Cats” watercolor at 12 x 16. Three Black and White Cats, watercolor, 12 x 16 (the original) © Bernadette E. Give it up, it is what it is, it will be what it’s meant to be. The works in which I strived to some sort of perfection were ones that ended up stiff and lifeless, overworked, things that even others could see. Your work will never be perfect because each of us sees things differently, and even we see things differently moment to moment. I still observe both points today, and they made me successful in both my commercial design career as well as my fine art career.Īnd in summary, “perfect” is a myth. If the work started to take a turn I didn’t expect I was more prepared to consider and explore the changes. I could also plan ahead for materials and make sure I had what I needed. The lesson for me was to take the time to really understand what I wanted to say with a work, to explore it thoroughly in my mind, whether it was a commission or not, and found that also helped me build my skills because I didn’t start wandering mid-composition and be forced to experiment as I was painting. In both cases you learn far more about your skills and what skills you need to develop by “working it out”, and you develop your own self-esteem and pride in your work by finishing everything you start. In the second it’s difficult to take a work seriously if you don’t commit to finishing it, and sometimes it means you don’t take yourself seriously. In the first case, you can decide you don’t like something in your work and start over a dozen times because there will always be something you don’t like.
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