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Old 04-18-2002, 03:04 PM   #1
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Although I have a pretty large storage area, I do like to purge out old paintings after a time and get rid of them. Never do this when your family is around or they get crazy on you and cart them off. I have a few really bad paintings that my kids had an attachment to and retrieved before I threw them out.

Then there is the story of setting them out near the garbage can because they don't fit inside and watching in horrified facination as he put it in his cab, instead of in with the other garbage. Ok, since then if there is one I am ready to purge, I take a knife to it and put it in the garbage. There is only one reason to keep bad paintings..to prove you really weren't born with a silver paint brush in your hand, you had to work at learning your craft and improve through a lot of trial and error. I still have a lot in my storage room that I need to go through and probably get rid of. (When nobody is around)

You can get emotionally attached to even the bad ones. One artist called these "Paintings that were being Punished" because she had them in a closet. I am pretty sure there was another thread somewhere dealing with this subject. Probably lost in one of thread within a thread subjects...
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