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Originally Posted by Kimber Scott
First, is there some kind of compulsive illness that causes one to take a perfectly good painting and destroy it?
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Sure. It's called hurrying to meet a deadline.
Slow down. Be deliberate with every stroke. Be sure to back up and check what you've done, and think about what you're going to do next.
Most likely, you stayed up close, and what you were doing looked great from a foot away. It wasn't until you stepped back and evaluated your progress as a whole that you noticed what you'd done. (As you can probably tell, I learned this the hard way.
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If you haven't read it - get
Alla Prima by Richard Schmid. He has some really terrific advice. One thing that might be relevant to you, given your monday deadline, is that it's better to have an unfinished painting in which the parts that are done are done correctly, than to have a finished painting with parts that are wrong.
Good luck!
(Any chance you'll show us the gill-faced painting?
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