For hours or days on end without a single brush mark. I don't even have to be in front of my painting. It is always on my mind. I am always thinking about and worrying about my next move or my next painting. Not that I plan or that I am so careful with my next step but I do think and look as the painting slows down. At the beginning there is a getting to know the painting time, where I find my way through the painting by painting. Building up and ripping down. Then there is a time where you get down to the last ten brush marks that can be very slow. Seeing when it is done. I paint them until I get them right. What is right? Well right for me has always been a place where I feel that I can leave the painting. It is never about a certain look or style. Because sometimes the best place to leave a painting is where it is uncomfortably right. A place that is not familiar but a place that allows you to move on to the next one without looking back.
New painting in progress June 2014
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