This isn't how I envisioned the finished product. But, I don't dislike it. You know how it goes, sometimes artwork turns out like you SEE it in your head. Sometimes it looks very different. That can be for many reasons. Maybe you don't execute some element the way you intended or the color you mixed dries much darker than you anticipated. What's really fun is when you start down your planned path, pause at a certain point and decide to take a rabbit trail which ends up leading to a very different end result. Sometimes they call it creativity. That may be, but coming up with a plan and performing it is an act of creativity, too.
This piece has a little of each process. Some parts of it I love, others not so much. Seems I always want to do a piece over when I've finished it, so that I can tweak it. I can count on ONE hand the number of times I've done that in the last 28 years.
I had a teacher who was known for doing multiples of her pieces every time she worked. She planned everything down to the tiniest detail, then worked on each piece as if it were the finished piece. After completing half a dozen or more of the same piece, she would then scrutinize them all and decide which was best and that became her final. I've always held that ideal in my mind. I've never done it. Don't know if I've even produced three of one work before.
Maybe I should. What do you think? What do you do?
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