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Floral Still Life Colour Study?
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So this was meant to be a quick 2 hour colour study (30x25cm) for a larger painting but it turned into an impressionistic, loose painting that I think I rather like. I now can't decide if I should spend another day working on it (refining its a bit - but not too much. I will force myself not to get carried away!!) or leave it as it is?
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Rush - repent!
Only rush at something if you know exactly what you need to do, and it isn't a major effort to do it. Whether this is oil or acrylic, though - I'm assuming it's oil - you CAN fix it. Clear the decks - take a new palette of paint to it, with clean brushes, fresh paint, and at least half a day free if possible, breathe deeply, think: crack on. I sometimes manage to convince myself that a painting is someone else's, and I'm fixing it for them; it's surprising how often that seems to work, even tut-tutting at the imaginary painter's foolishness .... (perhaps being a little doolally helps).
If you should fail (and you won't) stamp on the thing, put it through a wood-shredder, and start with a new board.