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Is it just me been odd.
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I seem to be developing this habit of getting to a stage in some of my paintings and not wanting to progress. It not any kind of I don’t know how too, it more of I’m satisfied with it as it is, and don’t want to move on as it might spoil it in some way. This is an example of what I mean , though I have since deliberately pushed on with it. Am 
I loosing the plot here.
I loosing the plot here.
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If you’re satisfied with a painting as it is, Paul, maybe there’s no need to take it further. I love this one as it is - it’s a very attractive style with only partial colouring, and sometimes more appealing than a fully painted picture (although I’m sure the finished painting will be very nice!). Know what you mean, though, about not wanting to push on in case you spoil it.
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Thank you both for your comments they are valued as always. I must admit that I am starting to like some of the work when it’s partly finished, I suppose the thing is that somehow we are expected to finish it off or it not a painting. But why should that be, I think I will do one an put it on the gallery to see what the reaction is, to it as a painting form in it’s self.
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I think it's a fairly common phenomenon and one I go through with most paintings. There is generally what is often referred to as "the ugly stage' of a painting where you have worked through a method of adding colour or shadow to start creating the form. It's then important to regain the likeness or object, but once you do that it seems that you don't want to destroy it and move back into an "ugly stage" again. I do it all the time with portraits, particularly. Sometimes I just have to step back and take a break, come back and look at it again (from a distance) to see what I need to do next, or if I really need to do anything else - e.g. it's done or bin it and start again.
It's really up to you what you call "finished", whether it's partly coloured, vignetted, etc. If you like it, that's all that counts. I don't think there are many that would be critical
I often leave bits of canvas tinting showing through, unfinished on purpose.
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Thank you for you comments Ron, maybe I’m not as mad as I thought. I can certainly identify with what you say and have decided to not quit finish, off the truck painting. I was once told by a very elderly artist, it’s what you don’t paint that makes the painting, I often thought this odd, but now I’m starting to see what he means.
