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Originally Posted by Mary Jane Ansell
Marina, I know you mean it in the sense of taking too much time but there's nothing "dreadful" about your technique by a long shot!!! Has your extended break from painting left you with plenty of ideas for what you now want to do or is it hard to "get the juices flowing" as it were?
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Mary Jane,
by dreadful technique I mean that I painted my trompe l'oeil with a very very thin brush, filling a square centimeter until it was finished and then beginning another square centimeter. It finally worked because some of them are not too bad. ( I know it's a success when people don't notice it in the beginning, and then go closer and closer and finally try to touch it )
I prefer to think that I didn't lost my time during the years I didn't paint, and that I needed to acquire some maturity...(sometimes difficult to convince myself)
Finally during those 6 last months, I feel more alive than ever. And discovering this forum helped me not only technically but I don't feel too much isolated in my studio. I'm just beginnig to be able to control my brush enough to express what I want, and I regret that my days are so short because I have too many ideas. I never had an artist block yet (Garth, I hope you will go out from yours soon...) I always thought that my best work is the next one, and I generally lose a little concentration at the end of a painting because I 'm impatient to begin the next one. And seeing some work like yours give me a hundred ideas!